Job Description

We have an exciting Band 7 role within our established Children's Community Nursing team. These roles are a fantastic opportunity for experienced children's nurses with a passion for supporting children with medical complexities ; supporting nurseries, schools, and respite settings to manage the health, well-being, and medical needs of children.



The role involves leading the team in supporting children with medical complexity. The post requires highly skilled individuals with excellent organisational and communication skills.



The successful applicant will work autonomously and collaboratively across organisations, ensuring professionals are supported to provide effective safe care to children with complex medical needs.



This role will offer strong clinical leadership to the nursing team within special schools, ensuring the highest standards of care delivery , ensuring pathways are based on best evidence based practice and adherence to local and national guidelines.



The roles offer a unique opportunity to provide leadership, mentorship, and clinical supervision, which are key elements in supporting our dedicated team.



If you are highly skilled in the field of complex needs and have a passion for making a difference to the lives of children, and have experience of working in a special school setting, we encourage you to consider applying for these exciting positions.



Direct delivery and care management and oversight of a defined caseload with long term medical complexity



Support and deliver safe, effective care to children/ young people and their families, ensuring empathy and quality is everyone's prime objective.



Clinical and professional leadership, inspire, motivate and empower others



Highly visible and have an accessible approach for the children, young people and their families.



Lead in supporting children within special schools ensuring their complex needs are met safely and effectively .



Working collaboratively and effectively across boundaries and organisational disciplines



Responsibility for developing high quality training materials and programmes to support and underpin effective consistent and high level training



Supporting the delegation of clinical tasks and skills to staff and carers responsible for the children in their given setting .Supporting staff to feel competent and confident to meet needs of children in their care in a holistic way



Strong leadership in transition ( preparing for adulthood ) developing supporting guidance and pathways and implementing a variety of supportive transition tools



Leading the team with complex discharges and preparations required to support children and families being discharged into their home



Leading on nurse lead community and school clinics ensuring appropriate and timely reviews offering expert advice and support to children and their families



Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients. We employ more than 6,500 staff, have approximately 900 beds and have a planned turnover in excess of 410m for 2017/2018.



As one of the United Kingdom's largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents - it's not just a good place to work; it's a great place to live . In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.

Main responsibilities will include:

Leading on supporting the children's Community nursing team to meet the needs of children within Special School Setting.



Leading on strengthening relationships and collaborative working with partner agencies to ensure children with complexity have their needs understood and safely met within their chosen setting



Leading on nurse led clinic initiatives working closely with Community paediatricians supporting school and community clinics and reviews.



Responsible for EHCP coordination within the CCN team. Ensuring quality person centred health advice and appropriate identification of individual need identified



Responsible lead clinician for the caseload of children and young people with complex and/or additional needs within CCN team



To ensure appropriate support needed is identified for children and families who are commencing nursery /school assisting in the identification of the child's health needs and how they can be met within their setting



Contribute to influencing all aspects of care and management of children within the speciality.



Supporting and promoting the delivery of high quality, clinically effective care, prioritising and utilising research in everyday practice.



Leading on the co-ordination, development and delivery of quality training programmes to staff involved in nursery and schools responsible in meeting the health needs of a child in their care.



Participation in identifying service development needs and delivering service development projects.



Coordination of care supporting hospital to home and working with the children's community team to coordinate care to the point of discharge home for children with medical complexity



Work autonomously providing support and advices for families/carers who are often in hospital for long periods of time.



Support in the education of CYP and their families / carers to learn new skills to meet complex health need



Educate and support professionals to meet the needs of children with complex health needs



Support in the development of detailed care plan and escalation care plans to support inclusion into nursery and school settings



Provide clinical expertise to improve safe standards of care by active involvement in the patient journey and development of patient pathways.



Work collaboratively with all stakeholders to facilitate improved patient flow, capacity and continuity of care.



Support reducing length of hospital stay by assisting to streamline the patient hospital journey ie early identification of home equipment supplies /supporting appropriate orders of home oxygen.



Coordination of discharge planning meetings locally, Attendance at complex tertiary discharge meetings and subsequently leading on required local planning



Prevention of hospital admission providing high level community care support and review



Close collaboration with Kentown lead nurse. Regular planned review of shared case load .



Support for families/carers physical, emotional and social needs.



Support for children preparing for adulthood and supporting transition to adult services. Developing utilisation of transition guidance /support tools.



Development of transition clinic reviews, implementation and embedding of transition process and policy within the CCN team. Pivotal link between children and adult services, arranging required multi agency meetings and patient reviews



Support the Childrens Community team in the development and promotion of healthcare passports.



Provide highly specialist support to complex families and work with them to navigate the different systems and improve their quality-of-service experiences.



Provide an integral role in leading and shaping the development and direction of the service utilising current research/evidence including NICE guidance.



The post holder will be flexible with their hours to provide support as needed, which may include occasional evenings and weekends, and will work across Blackpool and Fylde & Wyre.



The post holder will work within and adhere to Professional standards of practice, along with Trust policies and procedures