Paediatric Clinical Lead Nurse - Burnley
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
- Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
- Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced paediatric/children’s nurse looking for a new clinical leadership role within our friendly and dynamic community team.
The Children’s Continuing Care and Assessment Team are looking for an enthusiastic registered nurse, with a strong clinical background in supporting children with complex health care needs to join our team as a Clinical Lead for medical devices, consumables and training.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will need to have a passion for working with children with complex medical needs and their families to promote excellent care coordination across the system. You will need to possess excellent clinical and communication skills and have knowledge and experience of equipment used by children with long term medical needs.You will need to demonstrate a proven skill set in practice education and in depth knowledge in complex needs consumables and equipment.
We are a bespoke community nursing team providing a range of nursing services to children and young people with complex needs, in particular supporting all aspects of the continuing healthcare process.
In providing this support to children, young people and their families you will be involved in the assessment of nursing need, management of care and oversight of the provision of equipment and consumables.
Working for our organisation
This role will also require you to develop and implement training packages as well as work with the system in the provision of a robust equipment model for LSCFT CYP provision.
To come and join our team you will need to have excellent organisation, clinical and communication skills. You will be a motivated team player and someone who is approachable to families and colleagues across the system. We are also seeking a nurse who wishes to continue with their development in community complex needs and will actively engage in our programme of continuing professional development to develop clinical and leadership skills as well as support a range of staff in developing theirs.
You will benefit from excellent management and peer support, opportunities to work alongside specialists, a personal and professional development plan. Caseload management and staff supervision skills will be developed within the role.
As part of the Children’s Complex Needs Nursing Service we work closely with the Special Needs School Nursing Team and Children’s Complex Packages of Care Team. We are a small team based across and covering East Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen, Preston and West Lancashire.We work closely with Children Therapy Teams and wider health, education and social care to provide a genuinely child-centred service. We work in a variety of locations, including clinics, children’s homes, nurseries and schools.
You will be NMC registered, and have significant children’s nursing experience including working with children with complex health needs in a multi-agency context.
You will need access to a vehicle for work purposes or be able to travel between community settings in a timely manner.
For further information about the post please contact Complex Needs Admin Team on - [email protected] who will arrange for you to speak to Michele Kershaw, Team Leader or Cat Evans, Service Manager.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Professional Degree or equivalent Registered nurse qualification
- Evidence of formal training / self-study / specialist experience to Masters level equivalent
- Current Professional Registration with/NMC
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Understanding of clinical governance framework & implications for practice, including audit and research governance
- Knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools for children with diverse needs
- Knowledge of a range of nursing care techniques and programmes for children with diverse needs/ related to client group
Experience
Essential criteria- Evidence of recent and relevant post graduate experience encompassing the specialist field of practice. that demonstrates an in depth knowledge of specialist area
- Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working
- Experience of working with children with complex needs and their families in community/non clinical setting
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Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document. Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.
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LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation.
Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. If there is anything you’d like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.