- CAREthat is evidence based, high quality and compassionate
- SAFETY that is of the highest standards
- COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful
- SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable
- PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients
- Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
- Post holder to work flexibly across the Childrens Paediatric Continence service, delivering high quality, evidence-based bladder and bowel care for children and young people preventing hospital admission and facilitating early discharge from hospital.
- Develop and use knowledge and skills in order that professional development, bladder and bowel competencies can be maintained and keep professional portfolio up to date.
- To manage own caseload including complex patients with long term or life limiting conditions or illnesses
- Draw upon an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources in their practice.
- To support the Team Leader and Nurse Specialist in the effective daily management of the patient care.
- Support with training and packages of care to meet the needs of the child.
- Ensure effective line management of staff.
- To accept responsibility for own professional practice as a reflective, accountable clinical practitioner
- Maintain Professional Registration and adhere to relevant Code of Practice of Professional body.
- Perform clinical skills in assessment, diagnosis and management, treatment of treatment.
- Performing and interpret complex skills in; urinalysis, bladder and bowel charting/interpretation, ultrasound bladder scanning and result consideration once competent.
- Perform more complex and difficult skills of performing and translating uroflowmetry results with support.
- Provide professional advice/ support / supervision / direction to junior members of the team.
- Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and cares/relatives and professionals across health and social care services.
- Provide specialist clinical knowledge to primary health care teams and other health professionals, parents/carers and relatives seeking advice on the management of the child with continence issues and management.
- Provide specialist clinical knowledge and skills to deliver high quality evidence based care to patients with bladder and bowel dysfunction.
- Provide a package of care around the child to meet their varying needs in relation to bladder and bowel management acting and advising appropriately to ensure they are supported within the community setting.
- Provide accurate and regular reviews of the childs physical, emotional and spiritual needs and on the progress of their condition/diagnosis.
- Deliver high quality care and training, by ensuring both clinical practice and all verbal and written information is evidence based.
- Liaise directly with health professionals in primary care and act as an advocate for patients to ensure they are given the optimum opportunity to explore the continence care options available to suit their individual needs.
- Escalate concerns in relation to management plans / treatment / safeguarding / social issues to ensure the child safety is paramount in accordance with legislation.
- Actively participate within Audit and Paediatric Benchmarking
- Ensure knowledge, skills and competency are updated and maintained through appropriate CPD, training and development opportunities to enable effective care to be delivered in line with current research-based evidence and practice.
- Ensure that verbal communications and written documentation are maintained and are clear, relevant and concise, in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Councils (NMC) Standards of Records and Record Keeping and Trust policy.
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous and accurate clinical records recording all patient related activity on clinical systems as directed by NMC code of conduct, legal obligation and local and national policies.
- Keep patient records up to date on a regular basis and update IT systems as necessary to ensure records and information are accurate and concise.
- Complete KPIs ensuring KPIS are met by the team and report back to the service manager.
- Complete appropriate written or typed referrals to other service where a need is identified to meet the needs of the patient holistically.
- Complete and submit safeguarding reports as requested.
- Complete and contribute to any necessary a reports and quality assure those of other staff as required for submission to the Special Educational Needs panel.
- Embrace training opportunities provided by others formally or informally in order to improve practice and patient care outcomes.
- Participate in education programmes, seminars and in-service training days.
- Develop effective education programmes to ensure children, families and carers are fully informed about the health needs of the child and competent in their care.
- Act as a mentor to new staff members and students ensuring their individual learning needs are identified and programmes implemented to meet those needs.
- Be responsible for identifying your own training and developmental needs ensuring they are met.
- Keep up to date with and critically appraise current research and evidence-based care as well as contemporary issues relating to the development of childrens services.
- Facilitate the acquisition of new skills and knowledge in order to meet the needs of individual children, service needs and statutory requirements.
- Represent the childrens nursing service in the absence of the Nurse specialist.
- Support the clinical leadership of junior staff members including, supervision, annual appraisal, setting individual performance plans and training.
- Organise clinics on a monthly basis and in the absence of a member of staff.
- Be able to recognise child abuse.
- Be able to document accurately child protection concerns according to Laming recommendations, differentiating fact from opinion.
- Know who to contact / inform / seek advice from; know how to contact them 24 hours a day, seven days a week, know when to contact them according to Trust and Local Safeguarding Childrens Boards policies and procedures.
- Have understanding of own (and others) professional roles and boundaries, including the Named professionals, trust managers and social workers.
- Knowledge of the implications of key national document/reports.
- Understand multi-agency frameworks, investigations, working and child protection assessment processes including the use of the Common Assessment Framework / investigation/working.
- Be able to present child protection concerns in a child protection conference with support.
- Demonstrate ability to work with families where there are child protection concerns
- Be able to advise other agencies regarding the health management of child protection concerns.
- Ability to contribute to serious case reviews or individual management reviews.
- Understand child protection investigation and the basics of forensic procedures.
- Aware of Local Safeguarding Childrens Board and its remit. Person Specification
- Registered Children's Nurse, with current NMC registration
- Teaching & Assessing Qualification/Training or equivalent
- Relevant degree in Children's Nursing
- Proven experience of working in the community with children with a demonstrable equivalent theoretical knowledge base
- Knowledge of clinical skills required to undertake the role
- Knowledge of current professional & clinical issues
- Knowledge of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults procedures
- Awareness of how audit may influence quality of patient care
- Knowledge and experience of nursing children with bladder or bowel difficulties
- Clear understanding of the impact of illness - especially chronic conditions - on the child/young person and their family.
- Experience of multidisciplinary and multiagency working
- Experience in managing junior staff to support their caseloads
- Substantial post registration experience
- Substantial post registration experience within an acute hospital setting
- Knowledge of and participation in audit
- Work with children/young people with learning disability
- Stoma and catheter care experience
- Experience of working within the community
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to work both autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Excellent time management, record management and organisational skills
- Teaching skills
- Motivated individual, commitment to personal & professional development
- Ability to travel across Halton & St Helens Borough as required
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Children's Community Continence Nurse - Saint Helens, United Kingdom - Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Description
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has become available the Paediatric Continence team working with children in the community. We are seeking dynamic and motivated part-time Nurse to join our Paediatric Continence Team in the Community of St Helens and Halton areas. You will be based in Lowe House HCRC in St Helens and will be expected to travel across the boroughs and be a car owner/driver.
There will be lots of opportunities for learning new skills; the successful candidate will be primarily working from the clinical site, however must be comfortable in working in patients homes, and schools when appropriate.
An Enhanced DBS with lists for Children is required for this post.
Interview date to be confirmed.
Main duties of the job
To provide an expert Children's Continence Service to enhance the experience of children and young people with bladder or/and bowel problems.
To provide appropriate child and family focussed nursing support to children, young people and their families that responds to individual needs and local community needs. To take into account the need to prevent hospital admission, facilitate early discharge and to provide ongoing continence care for children and young people with continence needs, working across the whole of the child/young person's environment - home, school, community and hospital - to facilitate participation, inclusion and normality.
About us
The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.
From 1st July we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.
The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.
Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care:
Our achievements include:
Please see our Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our staff benefits. Accessible version available upon request.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
LINE MANAGEMENT/SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES
To be competent at safeguarding children and implementing the Child in Need and Child Protection procedures as appropriate includes the following skills, competencies and knowledge:-
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
Desirable
Skills
Essential
Other
Essential
Children's Community Continence Nurse professionals in St Helens
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Gemma Winstanley
Continuing Healthcare/complex Discharge Planning