Children Community Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 25 Medi 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 25 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Huyton, L36 0UB |
| Cwmni: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7492277/350-CC7492277 |
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Are you passionate about supporting children and young people complex health needs. We are looking for a Fixed Term (12 months) 0.6 WTE dedicated Band 6 Children Community Nurse (CCN) to join our team, delivering preventative and supportive care for children and young people with complex health needs who live within the catchment of Knowsley. You will be working under the guidance of the CCN team manager and clinical lead and alongside a multidisciplinary team, inter agency team that play a vital role in prevention of GP and Hospital attendances for this population of children/ young people (CYP). The role does require the successful applicant to be confident and competent in the management of clinical assessment and management of the acutely unwell CYP (see below essential criteria, the successful candidate must meet all). Understand the variance from the clinical norms that a CYP with complex health needs may present with, and the knowledge to document these clinical variances using evidence-based practice to develop a care plan unique to the CYP with varying and challenging health needs. As a team we would love to welcome a dedicated, knowledgeable, clinically experienced practitioner to our team who is ready to relish the challenge of making each care episode count and be golden for our CYP with complex health needs in Knowsley.
Manage a defined caseload of children’s community nursing children working within broadly defined by Mersey Care policies to deliver on the specialist assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation but having the freedom to prioritise the needs of individuals within that caseload recognising and responding to additional needs and crises as they occur.
Be the accountable practitioner for the defined caseload, prioritising and delegating planned interventions appropriately to members of the support Team in accordance with individual’s skills and abilities.
Be responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of the work delegated from the defined caseload to team members.
Ensure that organisational policies, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards and competencies within the skill mix are adhered to by team members.
Establish and maintain a good working relationship with primary and community care colleagues and other service providers, e.g., education, working collaboratively to provide a comprehensive service to children and young people.
Agree and contribute to setting team objectives and delivering agreed outcomes.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.
Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
This role aims to reduce hospital admissions, support safe discharges, and enable children and young people to live as fully and independently as possible within their communities, with dignity, choice, and inclusion at the centre of care.
To work in collaboration with partner agencies both voluntary and statutory to achieve good health outcomes for children and their families.
To ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
This advert closes on Thursday 2 Oct 2025