SEND Community Staff Nurse
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Job overview
The successful applicant will be a dynamic, highly motivated individual, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. As a SEND Community Staff Nurse you will be working as part of pro-active skill mix team who are committed to delivering high quality services.
The service provides support to children, young people and their families within a progressive universal model of service delivery dependent on assessed need. The service offers every child/family a programme of screening, developmental reviews and information and guidance to support parenting and healthy choices as defined by The Healthy Child Programme 0 – 19 years and up to the age of 25 years for children and young people with Special Educational Needs.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Duties
Responsibilities will include caring for children with urinary catheters, gastrostomy feeds, and medication requirements along with an awareness of tracheostomy and stoma care within the school and community settings. Responding to emergency situations and developing specialist individual care plans to meet the child/young person’s needs alongside staff training is an important aspect of the role.
Public Health
Undertake holistic assessments of children, young people and families in planning and delivering the Healthy Child Programme, including health screening and immunisations, plus a requirement to safeguard and support the health needs of any vulnerable children/young people within the caseload across the city.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The SEND Community Staff Nurse will work predominantly as part of the SEND School Health team to promote and improve health and well-being of school-aged children and young people to reduce health inequalities. The post holder will support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.The post holder will work in collaboration with partner agencies both voluntary and statutory to achieve good health outcomes for children and their families.
The post holder may have responsibility for allocated schools as the named Health Professional, and will work as part of the SEND School Health Team with delegated responsibility for the assessment of care needs, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for children, young people and families.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Current NMC registration, first level nurse.
- Mentorship Experience
Experience
Essential criteria- Evidence of ability to prioritise and manage workload
- Ability to motivate, negotiate with and influence others
- Consolidated period of post registration experience
Knowledge / Experience
Essential criteria- Actively involved in Professional Development
- Clinical Governance and Risk Management and Experience of Research, Audits and Evaluation
- Evidence of Ability to Manage and Prioritise Caseload
- Ability to Motivate and Negotiate with, and Influence Others
- Understanding of National and Local Influences on Healthcare Delivery and Public Health Agendas
- Knowledge of Health Promotion and Education
- Knowledge of Health Needs Assessment, Screening and Childhood Immunisations
- Knowledge of Children's Safeguarding Issues
- Consolidated Period of Post Registration Experience
- Awareness of working with children who have tracheostomy’s, urinary catheters, stoma, PEG feeds and usage of associated equipment.
Skills
Essential criteria- Demonstrate Excellent Communication Skills: Spoken, Written and IT
- Understanding of Skills Required for Team Working
- Ability to Travel for Work Purposes within the Mersey Care area
- Understanding of Teaching / Education Skills with Junior Staff
Values
Essential criteria- Continuous Improvement / Accountability / Respectfulness / Enthusiasm / Support
- Responsive to Service Users
- Engagement Leadership Style and Change Oriented
- Transparency, Honest and Discreet
- High Professional Standards and Strong Customer Service Belief
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form.The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
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