Job summary
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers. The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation. These principles will recognise the need to:
Promote safe practices
Value the aims of service users
Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
The post holder will hold a case load of children/Young people that have profound complex health needs, who require a key health worker to lead, support and empower the child / young person to reach their optimum health goals.
Main duties of the job
Be responsible for planning programmes of care to promote health gains of children and young people and maximise independence within a defined caseload across health and social care, education and voluntary settings.
Rigorously review all aspects of the care programmes renegotiating the care programmes to meet client's need accordingly.
Improve the child, young person's and carer's "self-management" of their condition wherever possible taking into account the functional and cognitive patient assessment.
Work as an integral part of the community nursing team and the multi-disciplinary team across Child Health Services and wider multi agency team
Manage conflicting views and reconcile inter and intra professional differences of opinion.
Work with multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team to co-ordinate the development, implementation and evaluation of teaching programmes for children, young people and their carers that provide them with the necessary knowledge and skills to gain independence, safely manage their circumstances, plan for unavoidable progression of their conditions and effectively access health, social care and education.
Understand own role and that of other multi-disciplinary team members.
To assess, plan and deliver evidence based skilled nursing care to children and young people with highly complex needs and long term conditions.
To provide advice and support on complex health needs/disability and care needs
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To assess, plan and deliver evidence based skilled nursing care to children and young people with highly complex needs and long term conditions.
To lead on the planning and delivery of teaching packages to families, children and young people, carers and identified multi-agency partners.
To provide advice and support on complex health needs/disability and care needs.
Advocate the special needs of children and young people to ensure their issues are represented at local and national levels.
Prevent reduce hospital/ GP attendances for the CYP
To assess the needs of children / Young people for continuing care
Job description
Job responsibilities
To assess, plan and deliver evidence based skilled nursing care to children and young people with highly complex needs and long term conditions.
To lead on the planning and delivery of teaching packages to families, children and young people, carers and identified multi-agency partners.
To provide advice and support on complex health needs/disability and care needs.
Advocate the special needs of children and young people to ensure their issues are represented at local and national levels.
Prevent reduce hospital/ GP attendances for the CYP
To assess the needs of children / Young people for continuing care
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- o Professional Nursing qualification appropriate to role -RSCN
- Registration with relevant Registering Body - NMC
- Willingness to work towards Specialist children practitioner qualification
Desirable
- Minimum 12 months experience post professional registration
- Specialist children practitioner qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with clients / patients / service users in a variety of settings / situations
- Evidence of applying a personcentred approach to care
- The ability to demonstrate the use of evidence-based practice
- Experience of providing care for children with profound physical disability
Desirable
- Experience of delivering education and training programmes in specialist area.
- Minimum one year's experience in community nursing
- Experience of educating and motivating staff
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- o Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential
- IT literate
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues
- Self-management and motivation skills
- Report writing skills
- Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
- Excellent communication skills (written & verbal)
- Ability to utilise assessment skills
- Good organisational/time management skills
- Ability to problem solve
- Ability to identify and minimise risk effectively
- Ability to reflect on experience and identify lessons learnt
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- o Professional Nursing qualification appropriate to role -RSCN
- Registration with relevant Registering Body - NMC
- Willingness to work towards Specialist children practitioner qualification
Desirable
- Minimum 12 months experience post professional registration
- Specialist children practitioner qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with clients / patients / service users in a variety of settings / situations
- Evidence of applying a personcentred approach to care
- The ability to demonstrate the use of evidence-based practice
- Experience of providing care for children with profound physical disability
Desirable
- Experience of delivering education and training programmes in specialist area.
- Minimum one year's experience in community nursing
- Experience of educating and motivating staff
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- o Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential
- IT literate
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues
- Self-management and motivation skills
- Report writing skills
- Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
- Excellent communication skills (written & verbal)
- Ability to utilise assessment skills
- Good organisational/time management skills
- Ability to problem solve
- Ability to identify and minimise risk effectively
- Ability to reflect on experience and identify lessons learnt
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
