To work within both the Continuing Care and Reactive Care team to deliver evidence-based nursing care to children and young people (CYP) in a variety of community settings by providing clinical assessment, planning, delivery, evaluation of care, and clinical advice in liaison with the team leader, peers, and/or multi-disciplinary professionals.
Recognise and monitor acute exacerbations of illness and initiate appropriate nursing support and action any urgent medical interventions.
Work collaboratively with the hospital inpatient areas, accident and emergency, A&E, Observation and Assessment unit, and primary care to facilitate early and prompt discharge and deflect unnecessary admissions to secondary care.
Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team and other service providers to ensure care is patient-centered, efficient, and effective and to develop guidelines and policies for children with acute and continuing health care needs.
Main duties of the job
To work preventatively utilizing health promotion skills and implement self-management skills initiatives/plans for CYP and families to ensure optimum health outcomes.
To recognise and monitor acute exacerbations of illness and initiate appropriate nursing support and action any urgent medical interventions.
To act as a patient's advocate in promoting and delivering the highest standard of nursing care, ensuring all fundamentals of care are addressed and current, relevant policies and procedures are adhered to.
The post holder will work as an autonomous nursing practitioner to support named nurses for designated caseload for CYP and families. The Senior nurse will work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies in the assessment, implementation, and evaluating specialist care for children with long-term, life-limiting, or palliative care conditions.
About us
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated provider of acute, intermediate, and community health care serving the population of Bolton. This provides us with an opportunity for our services to work closely with our partners in primary care and the local authority to ensure a seamless service for our patients.
Here at Bolton, our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of care and are guided by our trust values. We are proud that our Trust is a centre of excellence for maternity, neonatal, and care for children, and that it has been rated as Good by the Quality Care Commission (CQC). This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. It is also supported by our Nursing, Midwifery, and Allied Health Professional Framework for Professional Practice.
The Family Care Division aims to deliver the highest standards of care in maternity, sexual health, gynaecology, and a range of acute and community children's services. We deliver over 6,000 babies and carry around 1,500 gynaecological procedures each year. The Trust also has a tertiary level Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, enabling 1 in 4 women across Greater Manchester to receive in-utero transfer and birth at extreme premature gestation at Bolton.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For detailed job description and main responsibilities, please see attached Job description and person specification for the role.
Applications from overseas Nurses - The Trust appreciates and values the contribution international nurses bring to the NHS. We also understand the support overseas nurses need to gain full registration once in the UK (via OSCE) and therefore we only recruit internationally to fill nursing vacancies when we can ensure support is in place. At this present time we aren't in a position to offer that support and therefore will not accept applications from overseas nurses who only have Part 1 NMC registration. If that position changes in the future we will clearly advertise our opportunities for international nurses to join our nurse team here in Bolton. Thank you for your understanding.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered RSCN
Experience
Essential
* Experience of caring for children with acute illness
* Experience of care of children with chronic and complex conditions
Desirable
* Community nursing experience
Skills
Essential
* Ability to work in demanding situations using delegation
Desirable
* Leadership skills
Knowledge
Essential
* Safeguarding level 3
Desirable
* Knowledge of current safeguarding legislation
Employer details
Employer name
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Breightmet Health Centre
Breightmet Fold Lane
Bolton
BL1 6JG
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