Band 8a Deputy Professional Lead for Nursing

apartmentBirmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust placeBirmingham calendar_month 

Job overview

We are delighted to offer a Fixed Term Deputy Professional Lead Nurse within our Children and Families Division.

The Children and Families Services Division is committed to a continuous quality improvement agenda. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the division has robust structures, processes and systems in place to support a workforce that is fit for the future and that is competent and able to deliver safe, high quality services and excellent patient care.

Main duties of the job

You will provide professional leadership to the Nursing disciplines across the groups within the division supported by the Professional Lead for Nursing including participating in career and succession planning and leading on the future development initiatives.

In addition, you will be part of a team of professional leads within the division. The Purpose of a BCHC Deputy Professional Lead Nurse is to provide advice and leadership on professional issues.

In order to rise to this exciting challenge, you will have substantial experience of working within children’s services, staff leadership and quality issues within Nursing. You will be a highly driven individual with experience of supporting transformation programmes.

With highly developed communication and negotiation skills, you will motivate teams and inspire a culture of continuous improvement. You must have an understanding of paediatric community healthcare as well as knowledge of education and the workforce in a healthcare setting.

  • The successful candidate will be leading on workstreams which align with their skills and experience in addition to
  • Quality improvement in the division
  • Attendance at key divisional meetings
  • Safeguarding
  • IPC and Vaccination

Working for our organisation

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities.
We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description/Person Specification for more details regarding the post.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse
  • BSc degree in nursing studies
  • Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
  • Leadership qualification/ programme
  • Demonstrable evidence of robust and extended continuous professional development
  • Knowledge and/or experience in Quality Improvement methodologies (QI)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive experience at minimum A4C Band 7 practitioner level in a healthcare setting or social care setting

Skills/Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Good understanding and knowledge of nursing and national drivers
  • Knowledge of the BSol and national healthcare system, including national, regional, and local policy drivers for nursing provision
  • Knowledge and understanding of the NMC standards for nurses and how these are applied in complex case situations (and how these interfaces with organisational HR policies)
  • Excellent report writing skills
  • Ability to support other professionals in producing clinically appropriate documentation.
  • Exceptional verbal and written skills.
  • Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
  • Ability to think creatively and strategically in the implementation of developments in nursing practice
  • Ability to prioritise multiple tasks requiring an urgent response and different approaches.
  • Highly developed analytical skills, with the ability to apply creative solutions to complex problems.
  • Ability to analyse information, summarize findings and present them in ways that easily are understandable to stakeholders
  • Excellent communication, networking, and interpersonal skills
  • Collaborating and partnering skills with internal colleagues at varying levels, external stakeholders and at times experts by experience through co-design and coproduction of project opportunities

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Compassionate and Inspirational leader
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Motivator and role model to the nursing profession and future aspiring nurses
  • Resilient and flexible
  • Role model of Trust Values
  • Reflective and demonstrates integrity
  • Reliable/dependable
  • Can demonstrate ability to effectively teamwork but also able to work independently

Other Job Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Other job requirements Access to transport to mobilise across the Trust footprint

Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme

BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification.

We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC are an advocate of diversity and strive to mirror the community we serve as much possible.

We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.

Promoting Workforce Equality

In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics.

As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.

The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.

Flexible Working

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible.

This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.

In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!

Benefits of working for us:

  • Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
  • Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
  • Discounts for local and national retailers
  • Dedicated well-being services for all employees
  • Flexible working where possible
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