Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: 1 full time and 1 part time post available.
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 236-OCO-NM483-24
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Integrated Care Centre
- Town
- Oldham
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Children's Complex & Continuing Care Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
We are looking for 2 experienced nurses to join our children’s community long term ventilation and complex needs nursing service. This dynamic service has its footprint within the Oldham locality and is provided across family homes and community based settings.
Are you a band 6 registered children’s nurse that has a desire to work within a great team, with remarkable people, who make a difference every day? If this is you, then we would love you to come and work with us and see for yourself.
We offer many excellent opportunities, such as V300 nurse prescriber training, flexible working, SCARF. We also strive to be a great family-friendly place to work for all our staff, we value the expertise of our nurses and provide opportunities for you to progress in your career, improve patient care and get involved in innovative opportunities
Main duties of the job
Service/Ward/Department Summary:
The post holder will work predominately within the Children’s Long-term Ventilation and Complex needs team but may also utilise their clinical skills, by working across other areas of the wider children’s community nursing service as deemed necessary and appropriate by the service lead.
Role Summary:
The post holder will work alongside immediate team colleagues and external multidisciplinary partners, to develop co-ordinated continuing care packages for children and young people, who have complex care needs and or technology dependence and acute life limiting needs.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities of the Post holder:
- As a named nurse and case holder, to hold responsibility for the monitoring, assessing, implementing and evaluating individualised programmes for care for children and young people
- To provide clinical training and support for both registered and non-registered staff, who work with children and young people in the local community
- Act as a highly credible role model and resource to support, develop and monitor the performance of individual colleagues
- Give clinical advice to wider multidisciplinary colleagues as required, including external agencies
- Work alongside colleagues within the on-call rota
- Ensure current practice is evidence based and be an innovative practitioner at all times
- Provide on-going assessments of staff / colleagues skills and competency
- Ensure information, holistic support and education are available for the individual children, young people, their families and all relevant carers at all times
Key Requirements of the Person Specification:
- Registered Children’s nurse, with an active Nursing & Midwifery (NMC) registration
- Educated to either diploma and or degree level, with experiential knowledge of working with children and young people with complex health care needs
- Ability to work autonomously and a desire to work within a supportive wider children’s community nursing service.
- Willingness to work effectively within a multidisciplinary and integrated team
- Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service need
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/
We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Degree or Diploma Level Education as Registered Nurse
- Current registration with NMC (RN Child / RSCN)
- Ability to demonstrate a commitment to professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching, mentoring and Assessors qualification or equivalent experience
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in the Community
- Awareness of impact of disability on child and family
- Demonstrable experience of working with children
- Awareness of principles and experience of safeguarding of children and adults
- Knowledge of current Government legislation /documentation relating to children and young people services
- Evidence of clinical experience of supporting Children and or young adults who require additional airway support, mechanical ventilation and tracheostomy care
- Have the ability to demonstrate experience of supporting children and or young people with complex health needs
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of continuing healthcare
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Experience of quality improvement and developing protocols and policies
- Good communication (written and verbal skills)
- IT skills
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.
- Ability to prioritise work and remain calm under pressure.
- Flexibility to work occasional nights / late shifts to support training and development of carers
Desirable criteria
- Full UK driving license with willingness to use own car for work purposes
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Fern
- Job title
- Children's Nursing Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07395374407
- Additional information
For any enquiries or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Lisa Fern, Children's Nursing Service Lead on 07395374407, or Wendy Bacon, CLTVT Team Leader 0161 357 5112
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