Job summary
We have two exciting Band 7 roles within our established Children's Community Nursing team. These roles are a fantastic opportunity for experienced children's nurses with a passion for supporting children with medical complexities ; supporting nurseries, schools, and respite settings to manage the health, well-being, and medical needs of children.
The role involves leading the team in supporting children with medical complexity. The post requires highly skilled individuals with excellent organisational and communication skills.
The successful applicant will work autonomously and collaboratively across organisations, ensuring professionals are supported to provide effective safe care to children with complex medical needs.
This role will offer strong clinical leadership to the nursing team within special schools, ensuring the highest standards of care delivery , ensuring pathways are based on best evidence based practice and adherence to local and national guidelines.
The roles offer a unique opportunity to provide leadership, mentorship, and clinical supervision, which are key elements in supporting our dedicated team.
If you are highly skilled in the field of complex needs and have a passion for making a difference to the lives of children, and have experience of working in a special school setting, we encourage you to consider applying for these exciting positions.
Main duties of the job
Direct delivery and care management and oversight of a defined caseload with long term medical complexity
Support and deliver safe, effective care to children/ young people and their families, ensuring empathy and quality is everyone's prime objective.
Clinical and professional leadership, inspire, motivate and empower others
Highly visible and have an accessible approach for the children, young people and their families.
Lead in supporting children within special schools ensuring their complex needs are met safely and effectively .
Working collaboratively and effectively across boundaries and organisational disciplines
Responsibility for developing high quality training materials and programmes to support and underpin effective consistent and high level training
Supporting the delegation of clinical tasks and skills to staff and carers responsible for the children in their given setting .Supporting staff to feel competent and confident to meet needs of children in their care in a holistic way
Strong leadership in transition ( preparing for adulthood ) developing supporting guidance and pathways and implementing a variety of supportive transition tools
Leading the team with complex discharges and preparations required to support children and families being discharged into their home
Leading on nurse lead community and school clinics ensuring appropriate and timely reviews offering expert advice and support to children and their families
About us
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients. We employ more than 6,500 staff, have approximately 900 beds and have a planned turnover in excess of £410m for 2017/2018.
As one of the United Kingdom's largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents -it's not just a good place to work; it's a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main responsibilities will include:
Leading on supporting the childrens Community nursing team to meet the needs of children within Special School Setting.
Leading on strengthening relationships and collaborative working with partner agencies to ensure children with complexity have their needs understood and safely met within their chosen setting
Leading on nurse led clinic initiatives working closely with Community paediatricians supporting school and community clinics and reviews.
Responsible for EHCP coordination within the CCN team. Ensuring quality person centred health advice and appropriate identification of individual need identified
Responsible lead clinician for the caseload of children and young people with complex and/or additional needs within CCN team
To ensure appropriate support needed is identified for children and families who are commencing nursery /school assisting in the identification of the childs health needs and how they can be met within their setting
Contribute to influencing all aspects of care and management of children within the speciality.
Supporting and promoting the delivery of high quality, clinically effective care, prioritising and utilising research in everyday practice.
Leading on the co-ordination, development and delivery of quality training programmes to staff involved in nursery and schools responsible in meeting the health needs of a child in their care.
Participation in identifying service development needs and delivering service development projects.
Coordination of care supporting hospital to home and working with the childrens community team to coordinate care to the point of discharge home for children with medical complexity
Work autonomously providing support and advices for families/carers who are often in hospital for long periods of time.
Support in the education of CYP and their families / carers to learn new skills to meet complex health need
Educate and support professionals to meet the needs of children with complex health needs
Support in the development of detailed care plan and escalation care plans to support inclusion into nursery and school settings
Provide clinical expertise to improve safe standards of care by active involvement in the patient journey and development of patient pathways.
Work collaboratively with all stakeholders to facilitate improved patient flow, capacity and continuity of care.
Support reducing length of hospital stay by assisting to streamline the patient hospital journey ie early identification of home equipment supplies /supporting appropriate orders of home oxygen.
Coordination of discharge planning meetings locally, Attendance at complex tertiary discharge meetings and subsequently leading on required local planning
Prevention of hospital admission providing high level community care support and review
Close collaboration with Kentown lead nurse. Regular planned review of shared case load .
Support for families/carers physical, emotional and social needs.
Support for children preparing for adulthood and supporting transition to adult services. Developing utilisation of transition guidance /support tools.
Development of transition clinic reviews, implementation and embedding of transition process and policy within the CCN team. Pivotal link between children and adult services, arranging required multi agency meetings and patient reviews
Support the Childrens Community team in the development and promotion of healthcare passports.
Provide highly specialist support to complex families and work with them to navigate the different systems and improve their quality-of-service experiences.
Provide an integral role in leading and shaping the development and direction of the service utilising current research/evidence including NICE guidance.
The post holder will be flexible with their hours to provide support as needed, which may include occasional evenings and weekends, and will work across Blackpool and Fylde & Wyre.
The post holder will work within and adhere to Professional standards of practice, along with Trust policies and procedures
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main responsibilities will include:
Leading on supporting the childrens Community nursing team to meet the needs of children within Special School Setting.
Leading on strengthening relationships and collaborative working with partner agencies to ensure children with complexity have their needs understood and safely met within their chosen setting
Leading on nurse led clinic initiatives working closely with Community paediatricians supporting school and community clinics and reviews.
Responsible for EHCP coordination within the CCN team. Ensuring quality person centred health advice and appropriate identification of individual need identified
Responsible lead clinician for the caseload of children and young people with complex and/or additional needs within CCN team
To ensure appropriate support needed is identified for children and families who are commencing nursery /school assisting in the identification of the childs health needs and how they can be met within their setting
Contribute to influencing all aspects of care and management of children within the speciality.
Supporting and promoting the delivery of high quality, clinically effective care, prioritising and utilising research in everyday practice.
Leading on the co-ordination, development and delivery of quality training programmes to staff involved in nursery and schools responsible in meeting the health needs of a child in their care.
Participation in identifying service development needs and delivering service development projects.
Coordination of care supporting hospital to home and working with the childrens community team to coordinate care to the point of discharge home for children with medical complexity
Work autonomously providing support and advices for families/carers who are often in hospital for long periods of time.
Support in the education of CYP and their families / carers to learn new skills to meet complex health need
Educate and support professionals to meet the needs of children with complex health needs
Support in the development of detailed care plan and escalation care plans to support inclusion into nursery and school settings
Provide clinical expertise to improve safe standards of care by active involvement in the patient journey and development of patient pathways.
Work collaboratively with all stakeholders to facilitate improved patient flow, capacity and continuity of care.
Support reducing length of hospital stay by assisting to streamline the patient hospital journey ie early identification of home equipment supplies /supporting appropriate orders of home oxygen.
Coordination of discharge planning meetings locally, Attendance at complex tertiary discharge meetings and subsequently leading on required local planning
Prevention of hospital admission providing high level community care support and review
Close collaboration with Kentown lead nurse. Regular planned review of shared case load .
Support for families/carers physical, emotional and social needs.
Support for children preparing for adulthood and supporting transition to adult services. Developing utilisation of transition guidance /support tools.
Development of transition clinic reviews, implementation and embedding of transition process and policy within the CCN team. Pivotal link between children and adult services, arranging required multi agency meetings and patient reviews
Support the Childrens Community team in the development and promotion of healthcare passports.
Provide highly specialist support to complex families and work with them to navigate the different systems and improve their quality-of-service experiences.
Provide an integral role in leading and shaping the development and direction of the service utilising current research/evidence including NICE guidance.
The post holder will be flexible with their hours to provide support as needed, which may include occasional evenings and weekends, and will work across Blackpool and Fylde & Wyre.
The post holder will work within and adhere to Professional standards of practice, along with Trust policies and procedures
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- First level registered nurse, BSc hons or equivalent
- Registered children's nurse
- Community Specialist Practitioner or equivalent
- First level leadership training
- Non-medical prescribing or willingness to undertaken training.
Desirable
- Master level qualification in related field or willingness to undertake level of study
- Teaching qualification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Previous experience as band 6
- Evidence of on-going professional development within the past 2 years.
- Experience of clinical work and skills in a children's community services
- Evidence of multidisciplinary/agency working.
- Evidence of experience specific to the area of the post for example complex social circumstances, nonengagement and hard to reach CYP.
- Extensive knowledge of Safeguarding Procedures and legislation
- Knowledge of GDPR, Fraser Guidelines, Gillick Competency etc
- Experience of delivering formal structured training and teaching of practical skills .
- Experience of communication and liaison with tertiary level centres and understanding and leading on complex care plans for children nursed in the community and/ or attending specialist School Provision.
Desirable
- Experience, qualifications or knowledge of topics where workshops are planned to be delivered eg sleep, behaviour, continence and sensory problems.
- Experience with transition /preparing for adulthood and supporting tools
- Experience and evidence of working in special school setting and leading and supporting schools to manage medical needs.
- Experience of leading on caseload weighting reviews
Skills and Ability
Essential
- Knowledge of own professional accountability and limitations
- Able to maintain accurate records consistent with own professions guidelines.
- Able to demonstrate highly skilled and accurate written and verbal communication skills, including with non-engaging and hard to reach children.
- Able to promote best practice in service delivery and undertake audits, risk assessment, investigations.
- Confident in dealing with professionals from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of seniority.
- Able to provide detailed reports and presentations when working with multiagency teams
- UK Car owner/driver with a car available to use at work - to enable you to undertake the job. PLEASE NOTE: APPLICANTS THAT HAVE NOT CONFIRMED THIS WILL NOT BE SHORTLISTED.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Compassionate
- Empathetic
- Supportive
- Communication Skills
- Non-judgemental
- Innovative
Other
Essential
- Own car and able to use it for work
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- First level registered nurse, BSc hons or equivalent
- Registered children's nurse
- Community Specialist Practitioner or equivalent
- First level leadership training
- Non-medical prescribing or willingness to undertaken training.
Desirable
- Master level qualification in related field or willingness to undertake level of study
- Teaching qualification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Previous experience as band 6
- Evidence of on-going professional development within the past 2 years.
- Experience of clinical work and skills in a children's community services
- Evidence of multidisciplinary/agency working.
- Evidence of experience specific to the area of the post for example complex social circumstances, nonengagement and hard to reach CYP.
- Extensive knowledge of Safeguarding Procedures and legislation
- Knowledge of GDPR, Fraser Guidelines, Gillick Competency etc
- Experience of delivering formal structured training and teaching of practical skills .
- Experience of communication and liaison with tertiary level centres and understanding and leading on complex care plans for children nursed in the community and/ or attending specialist School Provision.
Desirable
- Experience, qualifications or knowledge of topics where workshops are planned to be delivered eg sleep, behaviour, continence and sensory problems.
- Experience with transition /preparing for adulthood and supporting tools
- Experience and evidence of working in special school setting and leading and supporting schools to manage medical needs.
- Experience of leading on caseload weighting reviews
Skills and Ability
Essential
- Knowledge of own professional accountability and limitations
- Able to maintain accurate records consistent with own professions guidelines.
- Able to demonstrate highly skilled and accurate written and verbal communication skills, including with non-engaging and hard to reach children.
- Able to promote best practice in service delivery and undertake audits, risk assessment, investigations.
- Confident in dealing with professionals from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of seniority.
- Able to provide detailed reports and presentations when working with multiagency teams
- UK Car owner/driver with a car available to use at work - to enable you to undertake the job. PLEASE NOTE: APPLICANTS THAT HAVE NOT CONFIRMED THIS WILL NOT BE SHORTLISTED.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Compassionate
- Empathetic
- Supportive
- Communication Skills
- Non-judgemental
- Innovative
Other
Essential
- Own car and able to use it for work
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
