The Children’sCommunity Nurse (CCN) will work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies in the assessment,implementationand evaluation of specialist nursing care to children withlong term, life limiting or palliative care conditions.
TheCCNwill support and contribute to the development of the Integrated Community Paediatric Service (ICPS), helping to ensure that policy and practice is developed and delivered in line with Trust, regional and national best practice.
Provide and promote evidenced based knowledge and skills to manage the health outcomes for CYP and their families and carers across a variety of community settings to safely meet the CYP health care needs.
To act in advisory role to other professionals and staff from other agencies in respect of health care for CYP and families within their area of specialism.
The post holder will support the wider ICPS andparticipatein the service provision for 24-hour-on-call, which will include at times attending home visits to supportend of lifecare out of hours (supported by other staff).
• Promote continuous improvement for the CYP and their families by collating their experience, utilising the Friends and Family Test and Patient Experience survey.
• Listen to andattemptto resolve problems for the CYP and their families andescalate any concerns to SCCN or Team Leader.
• Clinical duties will include;clinic basedwork, home visiting, administration of medication, teaching and training families and carers, undertaking risk assessments, reviewing acutely unwellchildrenand escalating any concernsidentified.
• Provide support to SCCN in the management of complex cases and report back any concernsidentified.
• Provide local support to patients under the care of Oncology services this will include; line flushes, blood taking and administration of low dose cytotoxic drugs.
• To actively seek the views and experience of the CYP and use the information to ensure the service is responsive to the CYP and their families.
• To supportSCCN inEnd of LifeCare in the community if this is the child and families preferred place of care.
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.
For the detailed job description and main responsibilities please see the 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 future we will clearly advertise our opportunities for international nurses to join our nurse team here in Bolton. Thank you for your understanding.
This advert closes on Thursday 20 Mar 2025
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