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.
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
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.
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
This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Mar 2025