Job summary
Children's Unit Ward Manager - 37.5 hours - Permanent
We are looking for a natural leader who has the ability to lead our Children's Unit Team to deliver a high quality care for our patients and families, whilst ensuring our teams are well led and operationally effective.
You will have a depth and breadth of both clinical and managerial experience at a Band 6 or above and be looking for the next step within your Paediatric Nursing Leadership Career. Your clinical knowledge base will run in parallel to your leadership acumen to deliver the role of the Children's Unit Manager.
You will need to:
o Work as a safe and effective leader, as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Teamo Ensure that clinical practice is based on agreed standards linked to best practice guidelines, reflecting current researcho Continue to develop a culture where clinical practice is patient-focused and where traditional barriers are reviewed in the interest of patient care
Are you:o A role model enabling others to learn and develop their professional skills and practice?o Able to develop and enhance services for this patient group throughout hospital attendance, admission and discharge/follow-up care planning?
Main duties of the job
To ensure effective leadership/management of Children's Unit, Children's outpatients & the Children's Observation & Assessement unit.
To provide clinical and managerial leadership to the nursing team
To ensure the supervision of the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care ensuringthat nursing and corporate standards are maintained and measured
To assume responsibility for the deployment and supervision of staff where there is a requirement to meet the needs of the service
To be competent in the delivery and supervision of a high quality nursing care across all areas of children's nursing delivery
To be an excellent leader, communicator, educator and innovator to progress the development of the team and the service
To ensure the families and carers are involved in their child's care, and be proactive in meeting their needs.
Embracing feedback that in turn can enhance experience for others
To provide senior nurse leadership and deputise in the absence of the matron
About us
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
- Safety
- Care
- Respect
- Communication
- Learning
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ people & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
SECTION 1- MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
PROFESSIONAL/CLINICAL:
- Ensure the unsupervised delivery of evidence based paediatric nursing care by providing expert clinical assessment, care planning, care delivery, care evaluation and clinical advice.
- Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work, including management and responsibility for more junior members of staff and all patients and working as an autonomous clinical practitioner.
- Actively demonstrate expertise to all levels of staff, including new medical staff.
- Respond to frequent request and interruptions from all grades of staff and from medical staff, with regard to patient care problems and the organisation of the unit, patient management and bed management.
- Working in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct, competently undertake expanded roles, and teach and assess the competence of other clinical staff to do so, to enhance the delivery of patient care.
- Using own judgement, initiate appropriate interventions prior to medical input being available, including those with complex presentation using analytical skills.
- Provide spontaneous advise, teaching and instruction to other grades of staff and professionals including new members of medical staff.
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records and ensure that all records relating to patient care is clear, concise and legible in accordance with the Trust and NMC Standards for Records and Record Keeping. Monitor other staffs record keeping and ensure it is done in accordance with the same.
- Identify service development priorities and implement them, communicating with the matron about all issues.
- Identify training needs for all staff associated with practice changes/developments and ensure this is carried out.
- In liaison with the Matron and other professionals identify and lead the development and implementation of relevant clinical guidelines and policies.
- Ensure adherence to the Trust Medicines Policy and the NMC Standards for The Administration of Medicines.
- Initiate and lead audits of practice and clinical effectiveness in accordance with Divisional and regional audit plan.
- Initiate and lead specific areas of practice developments in accordance with local and national policies and strategies to improve patient and family care.
- Lead best practice within the clinical area and implement changes in guidelines.
- Further develop skills continually which are required to practice at an advanced theoretical and practical level.
- Assess and actively manage within the clinical area in accordance with health and safety legislation and risk management policy.
- Facilitate and provide access to professional and clinical information for staff in the clinical area.
- Formulate and ensure the availability of appropriate patient information, including facilitating /ensuring collection of data and act upon audit results.
- Work within Data Protection and Caldecott requirements for information sharing.
- Ensure infection control procedures and policy are adhered to and monitored and other staff are aware of their responsibilities in ensuring compliance. Liaise with infection control team as necessary.
ADMINISTRATIVE / MANAGERIAL:
- To be responsible for identifying future departmental requirements of projections and service development requirements.
- To be responsible for the day to day running and organisation of the Childrens Unit (Inpatient Ward and the Observation & Assessment Unit)& Childrens Outpatients team.
- Take responsibility for the planning of the Unit e-roster, to meet patient and dependency needs; making the best use of resources, maintaining appropriate skill mix and reporting any concerns to the Matron.
- Ensure staff are aware of decisions taken about requirements of the department with regard to erosters, and leave. Include and support B6 nursing team in decisions taken, ensuring service needs are met. Full competence at use of/understanding of the e-rostering system.
- Implement and evaluate clinical governance systems ensuring that care is delivered within an appropriate model.
- Promote clinical excellence and clinical governance using recent and relevant evidence based research. Deputise for the Matron as required.
- Disseminate implement and ensure adherence to Trust policies by all members of the team.
- Contribute to the achievement of Trust targets, whilst identifying service development priorities.
- Contribute to action plans related to external reports.
- Manage the department pay/non pay budget, in liaison with the Supplies Department and the Matron; working within wider financial and resource/constraints. Ensure staff are also aware of their responsibilities with reference to pay budget and efficient supplies budgeting.
- Participate in the identification of cost improvements initiatives, including TEP options.
- When required, having own patient workload, while concurrently troubleshooting, manage and act in an advisory capacity for the multi-disciplinary team.
- Investigate complaints/accident reports and incidents within the department in line with trust policies. Liaise with Matron/PALS re recommendations/actions/earning and reflection.
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT:
- Form a cohesive management team with the band 6 team and initiate and participate in team meetings.
- Lead, arrange, co-ordinate and minute own clinical governance and other group meetings and disseminate information to Matron and other members of the team.
- Encourage and support effective intra and inter departmental communication.
- Provide competent and consistent leadership to the department team.
- Be responsible for staff development in accordance with service need and professional development needs, ensuring that appraisals are in place and done in a timely manner.
- Co-ordinate training and development for all staff, ensuring that accurate records are maintained. Formulate and lead specialised training for specific Childrens Unit extended roles, and be responsible for its implementation and teaching.
- Actively participate, and sometimes lead, in recruitment and selection processes and facilitate induction and preceptorship for newly deployed and newly qualified staff.
- Ensure that educational objectives of student, other learners and junior staff are met and facilitated and the progress of each student/learner/member of staff is monitored, alongside and in collaboration with the practice based educator.
- Monitor and manage sickness/absence and act appropriately in accordance with Trust Attendance Management Policy. Input data appropriately and facilitate sickness management in a way, which attempts to reduce absence.
- Perform return to work interviews in an appropriate manner and communicate outcome of discussions and trigger points in the attendance management policy as appropriate. Liaise with HR and attend relevant meetings re: sickness/absence, as required.
- Manage nursing team members in accordance with relevant policies eg: sickness/absence, capability, disciplinary, special leave; and maintain comprehensive records.
- Provide and facilitate clinical supervision in accordance with Trust policy.
- Provide staff e-roster, ensuring satisfactory skill mix meets department requirements and off duty. Supervise and instruct other staff involved in this process.
- Provide undirected cover for the department by using NHSP/additional hours/agency staff, or encouraging staff to be flexible in their working so to provide cover for sickness, utilising budget restriction. Ensure service needs continue to be met and avoid bed closures where possible. Ensure staff are aware of their restrictions/limitations both from a staffing and bed management view in the absence; adhering to patient flow/bed management policy.
- Mentor new Band 6s into their role.
SECTION 2- KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- Possess expert clinical knowledge appropriate to area of responsibility for patient.
- Utilise own clinical expertise and knowledge to create and promote an environment conducive to meeting the educational and developmental needs of all clinical staff within the department. Act as an information/advice resource for the rest of the Trust where appropriate.
- Demonstrate knowledge of staff and resource management.
- Use professional judgement and initiative to promote safe practice and respond appropriately to arising situations involving more senior colleagues appropriately.
SECTION 3- EFFORT AND ENVIRONMENT
- The ability and knowledge to respond to the changing needs of the unpredictable, violent and aggressive patient and relatives when required.
PHYSICAL EFFORT
- Lifting, moving and carrying heavy equipment such as transfer equipment, trolleys, within trust policy.
- Frequent requirement for intense periods of concentration whilst dealing with patients with highly complex problems.
MENTAL EFFORT
- Concentration required for prolonged periods whilst problem solving/clinical reasoning with complex patients problems.
- Concentration with communication for patients who have impaired ability to communicate or understand due to impaired consciousness.
- Concentration required whilst documenting complicated confidential information.
- Subject to interruptions whist dealing with highly complex problems.
- Negotiation with patients regarding compliance with treatment.
- Prolonged periods of concentration whilst assessing, planning and implementing patients with highly complex problems.
EMOTIONAL EFFORT
- Constantly exposed to highly distressing/ emotional circumstances / situations.
- Dealing with and assisting with resuscitation procedures
- Responsibility to support colleagues when frequently exposed to the emotional and physical stresses encountered in the care of the critically ill patient.
- Responsibility to undertake and / or support junior staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
SECTION 1- MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
PROFESSIONAL/CLINICAL:
- Ensure the unsupervised delivery of evidence based paediatric nursing care by providing expert clinical assessment, care planning, care delivery, care evaluation and clinical advice.
- Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work, including management and responsibility for more junior members of staff and all patients and working as an autonomous clinical practitioner.
- Actively demonstrate expertise to all levels of staff, including new medical staff.
- Respond to frequent request and interruptions from all grades of staff and from medical staff, with regard to patient care problems and the organisation of the unit, patient management and bed management.
- Working in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct, competently undertake expanded roles, and teach and assess the competence of other clinical staff to do so, to enhance the delivery of patient care.
- Using own judgement, initiate appropriate interventions prior to medical input being available, including those with complex presentation using analytical skills.
- Provide spontaneous advise, teaching and instruction to other grades of staff and professionals including new members of medical staff.
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records and ensure that all records relating to patient care is clear, concise and legible in accordance with the Trust and NMC Standards for Records and Record Keeping. Monitor other staffs record keeping and ensure it is done in accordance with the same.
- Identify service development priorities and implement them, communicating with the matron about all issues.
- Identify training needs for all staff associated with practice changes/developments and ensure this is carried out.
- In liaison with the Matron and other professionals identify and lead the development and implementation of relevant clinical guidelines and policies.
- Ensure adherence to the Trust Medicines Policy and the NMC Standards for The Administration of Medicines.
- Initiate and lead audits of practice and clinical effectiveness in accordance with Divisional and regional audit plan.
- Initiate and lead specific areas of practice developments in accordance with local and national policies and strategies to improve patient and family care.
- Lead best practice within the clinical area and implement changes in guidelines.
- Further develop skills continually which are required to practice at an advanced theoretical and practical level.
- Assess and actively manage within the clinical area in accordance with health and safety legislation and risk management policy.
- Facilitate and provide access to professional and clinical information for staff in the clinical area.
- Formulate and ensure the availability of appropriate patient information, including facilitating /ensuring collection of data and act upon audit results.
- Work within Data Protection and Caldecott requirements for information sharing.
- Ensure infection control procedures and policy are adhered to and monitored and other staff are aware of their responsibilities in ensuring compliance. Liaise with infection control team as necessary.
ADMINISTRATIVE / MANAGERIAL:
- To be responsible for identifying future departmental requirements of projections and service development requirements.
- To be responsible for the day to day running and organisation of the Childrens Unit (Inpatient Ward and the Observation & Assessment Unit)& Childrens Outpatients team.
- Take responsibility for the planning of the Unit e-roster, to meet patient and dependency needs; making the best use of resources, maintaining appropriate skill mix and reporting any concerns to the Matron.
- Ensure staff are aware of decisions taken about requirements of the department with regard to erosters, and leave. Include and support B6 nursing team in decisions taken, ensuring service needs are met. Full competence at use of/understanding of the e-rostering system.
- Implement and evaluate clinical governance systems ensuring that care is delivered within an appropriate model.
- Promote clinical excellence and clinical governance using recent and relevant evidence based research. Deputise for the Matron as required.
- Disseminate implement and ensure adherence to Trust policies by all members of the team.
- Contribute to the achievement of Trust targets, whilst identifying service development priorities.
- Contribute to action plans related to external reports.
- Manage the department pay/non pay budget, in liaison with the Supplies Department and the Matron; working within wider financial and resource/constraints. Ensure staff are also aware of their responsibilities with reference to pay budget and efficient supplies budgeting.
- Participate in the identification of cost improvements initiatives, including TEP options.
- When required, having own patient workload, while concurrently troubleshooting, manage and act in an advisory capacity for the multi-disciplinary team.
- Investigate complaints/accident reports and incidents within the department in line with trust policies. Liaise with Matron/PALS re recommendations/actions/earning and reflection.
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT:
- Form a cohesive management team with the band 6 team and initiate and participate in team meetings.
- Lead, arrange, co-ordinate and minute own clinical governance and other group meetings and disseminate information to Matron and other members of the team.
- Encourage and support effective intra and inter departmental communication.
- Provide competent and consistent leadership to the department team.
- Be responsible for staff development in accordance with service need and professional development needs, ensuring that appraisals are in place and done in a timely manner.
- Co-ordinate training and development for all staff, ensuring that accurate records are maintained. Formulate and lead specialised training for specific Childrens Unit extended roles, and be responsible for its implementation and teaching.
- Actively participate, and sometimes lead, in recruitment and selection processes and facilitate induction and preceptorship for newly deployed and newly qualified staff.
- Ensure that educational objectives of student, other learners and junior staff are met and facilitated and the progress of each student/learner/member of staff is monitored, alongside and in collaboration with the practice based educator.
- Monitor and manage sickness/absence and act appropriately in accordance with Trust Attendance Management Policy. Input data appropriately and facilitate sickness management in a way, which attempts to reduce absence.
- Perform return to work interviews in an appropriate manner and communicate outcome of discussions and trigger points in the attendance management policy as appropriate. Liaise with HR and attend relevant meetings re: sickness/absence, as required.
- Manage nursing team members in accordance with relevant policies eg: sickness/absence, capability, disciplinary, special leave; and maintain comprehensive records.
- Provide and facilitate clinical supervision in accordance with Trust policy.
- Provide staff e-roster, ensuring satisfactory skill mix meets department requirements and off duty. Supervise and instruct other staff involved in this process.
- Provide undirected cover for the department by using NHSP/additional hours/agency staff, or encouraging staff to be flexible in their working so to provide cover for sickness, utilising budget restriction. Ensure service needs continue to be met and avoid bed closures where possible. Ensure staff are aware of their restrictions/limitations both from a staffing and bed management view in the absence; adhering to patient flow/bed management policy.
- Mentor new Band 6s into their role.
SECTION 2- KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- Possess expert clinical knowledge appropriate to area of responsibility for patient.
- Utilise own clinical expertise and knowledge to create and promote an environment conducive to meeting the educational and developmental needs of all clinical staff within the department. Act as an information/advice resource for the rest of the Trust where appropriate.
- Demonstrate knowledge of staff and resource management.
- Use professional judgement and initiative to promote safe practice and respond appropriately to arising situations involving more senior colleagues appropriately.
SECTION 3- EFFORT AND ENVIRONMENT
- The ability and knowledge to respond to the changing needs of the unpredictable, violent and aggressive patient and relatives when required.
PHYSICAL EFFORT
- Lifting, moving and carrying heavy equipment such as transfer equipment, trolleys, within trust policy.
- Frequent requirement for intense periods of concentration whilst dealing with patients with highly complex problems.
MENTAL EFFORT
- Concentration required for prolonged periods whilst problem solving/clinical reasoning with complex patients problems.
- Concentration with communication for patients who have impaired ability to communicate or understand due to impaired consciousness.
- Concentration required whilst documenting complicated confidential information.
- Subject to interruptions whist dealing with highly complex problems.
- Negotiation with patients regarding compliance with treatment.
- Prolonged periods of concentration whilst assessing, planning and implementing patients with highly complex problems.
EMOTIONAL EFFORT
- Constantly exposed to highly distressing/ emotional circumstances / situations.
- Dealing with and assisting with resuscitation procedures
- Responsibility to support colleagues when frequently exposed to the emotional and physical stresses encountered in the care of the critically ill patient.
- Responsibility to undertake and / or support junior staff.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RSCN/RN-Child with current registration - minimum of Degree level
- ENB 998/997/mentorship module or equivalent
- Safeguarding Children training compliance - level III
- Band 6 experience
- APLS/EPLS
Desirable
- Line Management / Leadership Course
- Non-Medical Prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of relevant Paediatric Nursing experience at Senior level, working in a relevant clinical area.
- Experience of managing and leading staff in a clinical setting, demonstrating the ability to work in partnership to continue to improve service delivery.
- Experience of practice development.
- Experience of management/staff supervision.
- Experience of change management that is demonstrated by working across organisational boundaries.
- Experience of budget management.
- Experience of implementing change and clinical governance requirements.
- Experience of audit.
- Experience of leading on service innovation and growth.
- Experience of developing and monitoring guidelines.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RSCN/RN-Child with current registration - minimum of Degree level
- ENB 998/997/mentorship module or equivalent
- Safeguarding Children training compliance - level III
- Band 6 experience
- APLS/EPLS
Desirable
- Line Management / Leadership Course
- Non-Medical Prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of relevant Paediatric Nursing experience at Senior level, working in a relevant clinical area.
- Experience of managing and leading staff in a clinical setting, demonstrating the ability to work in partnership to continue to improve service delivery.
- Experience of practice development.
- Experience of management/staff supervision.
- Experience of change management that is demonstrated by working across organisational boundaries.
- Experience of budget management.
- Experience of implementing change and clinical governance requirements.
- Experience of audit.
- Experience of leading on service innovation and growth.
- Experience of developing and monitoring guidelines.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
