Paediatric Staff Nurse

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Paediatric Nurses seeking to undertake an interesting and highly rewarding senior nurse role.

This post provides the opportunity for a forward thinking and experienced Paediatric Nurse with extensive clinical skills/knowledge in children's complex physical needs to contribute to the co-ordination of a team of Health Care Support Workers, Nurse associates and Staff Nurses in delivering individual packages of care.

The CPOC Team provides nursing and specialist healthcare to Children & Young People (CYP) in their own homes and schools who have an identified health need against the continuing care criteria. Support from a package of care facilitates the transfer home from hospital for many CYP and enables their families to manage their child's complex health needs within the community to achieve an active life within their community.

The team are directly commissioned by the ICB's via the Children's Continuing Care Framework across Lancashire to deliver packages of care to children and young people with complex physical health needs. They are also commissioned to deliver support in schools and social care settings to individual children.

The post holder will ensure a high-quality, evidence-based service with clinical care pathways are delivered utilising available resource effectively in a safe and supportive manner when meeting the needs of CYP and their family.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the Complex Packages of Care (CPOC) team providing a nursing service for children referred for assessment and intervention.

The post holder will be responsible for assessment of need, intervention and treatment provision as indicated for a wide variety of conditions (this may include chronic, complex, disabling life limiting and challenging illnesses) within the area of nursing.

The post holder will be responsible for the comprehensive assessment of children and young people with diverse presentations, using investigative and analytical skills, to formulate a

hypotheses in order to determine appropriate interventions and goals.

To establish individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical

reasoning and utilizing a range of evidence based treatment skills and options to

formulate interventions and programmes of care.

To participate in the delivery of training programmes and information packages for colleagues in health, education voluntary sector organizations, and parents / carers

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT