Job summary
Wonderful opportunity to work within the intensive care transport team hosted by Birmingham and Women and Children's Hospital NHS.
Senior role within the KIDSNTS team - working across both teams KIDS and NTS
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced intensive care nurse to enhance and develop their skills in Critical Care education. Providing in house and Regional level 3 education.
The successful applicant will be a registered nurse, with a recognised intensive care nursing qualification. They will be a highly motivated individual with a passion for intensive care transport medicine.
KIDSNTS is an innovative regional transport and advice service dedicated to the management of critically ill infants and children in the Midlands. Teams of specially trained Doctors, Advanced Practitioners and Nurses are available 24 hours a day to transport babies and children to intensive care, paediatric and neonatal units or other ward areas.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will establish and maintain an effective clinical educational environment within KIDSNTS & The WM region that supports staff in the delivery of safe, high quality, evidence-based care to infants, children, young people and their families
The post holder will offer and develop programmes of training and education that facilitate the on-going professional development for all levels of nursing and clinical workforce.
The post holder will act as an expert resource, demonstrating high standards of care and clinical expertise in the delivery of Paediatric/Neonatal Critical Care
The post holder will be expected to maintain a high clinical profile working 20% of their time in the clinical environment supporting and developing staff and contributing to the clinical service need.
Ensure education is delivered to support the National Paediatric framework and the West Midlands Paediatric Critical Care Network and the West Midlands Neonatal Network.
About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person Specification
Qualifcations
Essential
- Recognised Intensive Care Qualification
- Management or Leadership course/qualification or equivalent
- Mentors/assessors course or equivalent
- Hons (level 6) study or equivalent
- Post Graduate Certificate Education (HE) or willing to work towards
- Current Nursing and Midwifery Council Registration sub part 1 Children or Adult
- Advanced Life Support qualification (APLS,EPALS, NLS)
- Current experience at minimum Band 6 or above in PICU/ NICU
- Experience of delivering Critical Care Education/working towards
- Mandatory training up to date
- Excellent clinical and management skills
- Evidence of formal and informal teaching
- Awareness of Paediatric Intensive Care, Neonatal Intensive Care and Health Service issues both locally and nationally
- Current clinical expert in critical care level 3 (PICU/NICU) Advanced levels 1-7
- Able to make skilled and balanced clinical decisions which will affect staff and service provision.
- Experience of working with Multidisciplinary teams around the region, including the Neonatal and Critical Care Network
Desirable
- Instructor status
- Experience of Leading a team
- Experience of delivering High Fidelity Simulation
- Experience of organising study days, Regionally and in house
Experience
Essential
- Excellent communication skills - both verbally and written, at various levels including with children, families all staff.
- Ability to act as an educational lead.
- Evidence of clinical leadership skills.
- Evidence of multi-professional team working.
- Effective time management skills for self and others.
- Effective presentation skills.
- Ability to plan, deliver and review programmes of regional and team based clinical training.
- Ability to organise self and others to work flexibly to deliver clinical training that meets service need.
- Demonstration of current expert clinical skills caring for critically ill children.
- Evidence of working well within the team
- Excellent understanding of local and national service delivery for critically ill or injured children.
- Ability to work flexibly in the clinical environment to support staff development and service need when required.
- Ability to motivate and support others.
- Commitment to involvement within wider Trust issues.
- Evidence of Band 6 management experience in a PICU.
- Recent experience of mentoring junior staff.
- Ability to access and interpret Vesper or willing to master.
- Ability to develop and maintain electronic educational resources via an e- learning platform.
- Ability to develop electronic systems that ensure the ward leadership team are kept up to date with the progress of new starters in achieving required competence, and to ensure staff move from novice to expert within the required time frame.
Desirable
- Evidence of teaching in a variety of settings using a range of different education and learning strategies.
- Evidence of commitment to educational initiatives to ensure the delivery of evidence based clinical practice and high quality care.
values
Essential
- Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust
- Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role
Person Specification
Qualifcations
Essential
- Recognised Intensive Care Qualification
- Management or Leadership course/qualification or equivalent
- Mentors/assessors course or equivalent
- Hons (level 6) study or equivalent
- Post Graduate Certificate Education (HE) or willing to work towards
- Current Nursing and Midwifery Council Registration sub part 1 Children or Adult
- Advanced Life Support qualification (APLS,EPALS, NLS)
- Current experience at minimum Band 6 or above in PICU/ NICU
- Experience of delivering Critical Care Education/working towards
- Mandatory training up to date
- Excellent clinical and management skills
- Evidence of formal and informal teaching
- Awareness of Paediatric Intensive Care, Neonatal Intensive Care and Health Service issues both locally and nationally
- Current clinical expert in critical care level 3 (PICU/NICU) Advanced levels 1-7
- Able to make skilled and balanced clinical decisions which will affect staff and service provision.
- Experience of working with Multidisciplinary teams around the region, including the Neonatal and Critical Care Network
Desirable
- Instructor status
- Experience of Leading a team
- Experience of delivering High Fidelity Simulation
- Experience of organising study days, Regionally and in house
Experience
Essential
- Excellent communication skills - both verbally and written, at various levels including with children, families all staff.
- Ability to act as an educational lead.
- Evidence of clinical leadership skills.
- Evidence of multi-professional team working.
- Effective time management skills for self and others.
- Effective presentation skills.
- Ability to plan, deliver and review programmes of regional and team based clinical training.
- Ability to organise self and others to work flexibly to deliver clinical training that meets service need.
- Demonstration of current expert clinical skills caring for critically ill children.
- Evidence of working well within the team
- Excellent understanding of local and national service delivery for critically ill or injured children.
- Ability to work flexibly in the clinical environment to support staff development and service need when required.
- Ability to motivate and support others.
- Commitment to involvement within wider Trust issues.
- Evidence of Band 6 management experience in a PICU.
- Recent experience of mentoring junior staff.
- Ability to access and interpret Vesper or willing to master.
- Ability to develop and maintain electronic educational resources via an e- learning platform.
- Ability to develop electronic systems that ensure the ward leadership team are kept up to date with the progress of new starters in achieving required competence, and to ensure staff move from novice to expert within the required time frame.
Desirable
- Evidence of teaching in a variety of settings using a range of different education and learning strategies.
- Evidence of commitment to educational initiatives to ensure the delivery of evidence based clinical practice and high quality care.
values
Essential
- Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust
- Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address
KIDSNTS
Printing House Street
Birmingham
B4 6DF
Employer's website
https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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