Band 6 Clinical Co-Ordinator

Job overview

This post will enable an individual to gain experience and insight in leadership skills.

The CCN team supports children in Birmingham with clinical and complex health needs. These needs are supported by our team and allow children to be cared for and have their treatment at home or in a community setting.

The post holder will work with the caseload managers to ensure the day-to-day visits are allocated and delivered and will offer support, advice and guidance to the wider team, colleagues in health, education and social care and families.

Main duties of the job

You will be offered opportunities to develop both clinically and professionally within a supportive environment and encouraged to participate in service developments. Formal clinical supervision and a supported induction period are provided.

If you are interested in the role of Community Children’s Nurse and would like to know more about the role, we encourage and would be happy to meet with any interested candidates, please see our contact details below.

Working for our organisation

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

• Work in accordance with NMC code of professional Practice and Scope of Professional Practice. To be professionally and legally accountable and responsible for all activities.
• Support and participate in virtual/face to face clinics to improve patient safety and patient experience of children known to the CCN team.
• Provide comprehensive evidenced based and skilled nursing care to children within their own home and/or other community settings whilst undertaking advanced assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care within the team caseload.
• Work with clinical lead to maintain and improve the quality of practice and service delivery through audits and data collection.
• Identify alongside the clinical lead training requirements for the Children’s Community Nursing Service.
• Responsible for accepting referrals and updating database on reason or rejection to team, ensure assessment, planning and delivery of holistic care is at the highest standard using an agreed nursing mode. Ensuring team discharge patient on completion of episode of care.
• Support equality and diversity when engaging in professional duties with clients and in all working relationships.
• Liaise with and work in collaboration with acute services, the primary health care team and other agencies in relation to discharge planning.
• Maintain clear and contemporaneous records adhering to BCHC record keeping policies.
• Responsible for Safeguarding Children through adherence of Trust policy.

• Support clusters with effective day to day allocation of the Children’s Community Nursing Team. Assisting caseload managers to determine priorities of care, coordinating skill mix on an on-going basis.
• Support Team Leader/Clinical lead with management responsibilities of the team including budgets, staff rotas, cover for absence, sickness, and other absences.
• Facilitate and ensure completion of Band 5 & Band 4 Nurse Associate personal development reviews, monitoring attendance at mandatory and other education and training sessions.
• Act as a role model by demonstrating leadership and expertise and maintaining credibility across the organization, wider health community and external agencies ensuring that positive reputation of the organisation is maintained.
• Facilitate and/or participate in the teaching and mentorship of staff, ensuring they have the knowledge and skills to fulfill their roles.
• Facilitate regular team meetings to ensure good communication within the team to foster, maintain and enhance effective working relationships within the team.
• Participate in research and audits relevant to the service and support both the Team Leader and Clinical Lead to conduct audit activity by continually monitoring standards of care, identifying risks, advancing knowledge within own specialist field, benchmarking and raising concerns to line manager.
• Participate in developing service policies, pathways, procedures and guidelines in partnership with relevant specialists, ensuring clinical governance is central to the function of the service, assisting with developing Children’s Community Nursing Team policies alongside the Team Leader and Clinical Lead.
• Maintain systems and processes to promote a healthy and safe working environment ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements maintaining accurate documentation and reporting any concerns to the line manager.
• Deal with informal complaints from service users and assisting with formal investigations as requested.
• Work with the Team Leader and Clinical Lead to monitor activity, performance and quality of service delivery against contractual requirements.
• Ensure all incidents are reported and managed according to the policy ensuring serious incidents are reported immediately via the Children’s Divisional Management structure.
• Responsible for contributing to and implementing action plans following incident reports and health & safety reviews.
• Responsible for clinical risk management.
• To have calm, diplomatic approach when dealing with distressed parent/carers demonstrating empathy, understanding and reassurance.

• Take responsibility for own learning and development by recognising and taking advantage of all opportunities to learn, including participation in the appraisal process, supervision and maintain a professional portfolio.
• To identify and undertake specific training to maintain skills in line with NMC Scope of practice and development needs of the service.
• Participate in the provision of in-service training for all grades of staff.
• Undertake teaching mentorship and evaluation of students both at the university and during clinical placements
• Maintain own professional development in line with post-registration on going education and practice (Prep).
• To develop and delivery bespoke training for staff within Specialist Nursing Services.
• To work with IT colleagues to identify and improve the IT resources required in order to provide safe allocation of care.

• Develop and empower all members of your team to perform to high standards and innovate.
• Support staff management arrangements identified by Team Leader/Clinical Lead. Ensuring staff are supported to complete specific objectives and action plans in conjunction with individual personal development reviews.
• Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity and address inequalities both in employment and service delivery. Ensure specific equality objective are included in PDR’s.
• Develop a culture that ensure that the standards of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People are achieved and maintained for all staff and that staff’s perception about their working lives are measured and improvements made.
• To work with the Clinical Lead/Team leaders to facilitate end of life discharges and facilitate place of choice for children/young people in the end stages of disease.
• To work effectively and provide leadership/clinical support and advice to nursing/medical staff acting as a first point of contact, co-ordinating with other members of the team and acute providers.
• To undertake the role of a nurse practitioner utilising a high level of decision making and clinical judgment ensuring that patient’s needs are met through the provision of diagnosis and the management of patient conditions through assessment, treatment and review planning process working in partnership with child/young person/other professionals.
• To support and develop the service to improve practice and work collaboratively across healthcare boundaries implementing and evaluating evidence based guidelines and policies.

Person specification

Qualifications / training

• RSCN or Registered Nurse Child Branch
• Evidence of recent Post Basic Training
• ENB 998 (Practice and Assessor course) or equivalent
• Independent supplementary Nurse Prescriber or willingness to work towards.
• Clinical assessment course/ Advanced Nurse Practitioner.

Experience

• Experience working with children with life limiting/threatening illnesses and End of Life
• Significant experience working as a RSCH/RN Child Branch

Skill/Knowledge

• Ability to manage the team on a day to day basis in absence of Team Leader.
• Demonstrate knowledge relating to child protection issues and procedures
• Evidence of assessment skills and use of the nursing process and nurse models
• Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of NMC Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Care
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of current legislative changes effecting the NHS and Social Services particularly those affecting Primary Care
• Ability to teach relatives, patients, clients and staff across all areas of self care and appropriate nursing practice

Personal Qualities

• Ability to demonstrate a commitment to team working.

• Demonstrate an ability to be flexible and able to participate in a changing NHS Environment.
• Ability to learn and apply knowledge appropriately.

Other job requirements

• Access to independent means of transport
• Flexible approach to working hours, times and days of week

Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme

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

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

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!

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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