Childrens Community Nurse

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., To work preventatively utilising 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 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 too.

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, evaluating specialist care to children with (long term, life limiting or palliative care conditions).

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.