Job summary
Children's Complex Care Senior Nurse Band 7
Location: Lansdowne Health Centre
Grade: Band 7 x 37.5 hours
Hours of work: Shifts between the hours of: 07:30 - 23:00 7 days a week.
An exciting full-time opportunity has arisen in the Children's Complex Care. The team's aim is to prevent and reduce hospital attendances/admissions and length of stay for children already known to the service.
The service cares for children within their home and school environments, striving to improve the quality of life for children and families with life limiting, and deteriorating complex healthcare needs, offering them greater choice around their chosen place of care.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and motivated nurse to provide expert clinical care and advice to staff, children and families with complex heath care needs.
You will need to be an experienced children's nurse, with the ability to prioritise your workload using advanced assessment skills, alongside the ability to provide a symptom management plan of care for children/young people during times of acute deterioration or illness. You will be expected to support the Clinical Lead in the development of the service, developing clinical pathways across acute and primary care settings.
About us
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.
Job description
Job 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.
- Have a good understanding of managing Children and Young People (CYP) with complex healthcare needs, and the processes of continuing healthcare funding.
- Provide clinical expertise to staff caring for children and young people requiring long-term ventilated.
- Provide clinical expertise to all registered and unregistered staff members in CCC.
- Provide comprehensive evidenced based and skilled nursing care to children within their own home and/or other community settings.
- Work with service clinical manager to maintain and improve the quality of practice and service delivery.
- Carry out and support audits to demonstrate effectiveness.
- Identify alongside the service clinical lead training requirements for Childrens Complex Care service.
- Responsible for ensuring assessments, planning, and delivery of holistic care is at the highest standard using an agreed nursing model.
- Ensure that Essential Care Indicators (ECIs) are completed and acted upon to ensure improvements are made within in a timely manner.
- Support equality and diversity when engaging in professional duties with clients and in all working relationships. Ensure the cultural, religious and spiritual needs of CYP and their families are considered through all aspects of their care
- Will delegate and monitor the individual caseload of team members for effective and timely caseload management and reporting to the service manager activity data and will alert them to areas of clinical risk.
- Liaise with and work in collaboration with acute services, the primary health care team and other agencies when planning and implementing programmes of care.
- Recognise situations, which may be detrimental to the childs physical and psychological well-being, and to deal with individual situations according to Trust and local agency policies.
- Teaching/mentoring of staff
- Undertake risk assessments prior to service delivery within the home setting to ensure staff safety.
- Responsible for ensuring staff maintain trust standards in record keeping. Maintain clear and contemporaneous records. Ensure information is obtained and recorded before undertaking care.
- Responsible for Safeguarding Children by:- Ensuring all staff attend required training- Ensuring staff receive safeguarding supervision- Deputising for the service clinical manager as required
Job description
Job 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.
- Have a good understanding of managing Children and Young People (CYP) with complex healthcare needs, and the processes of continuing healthcare funding.
- Provide clinical expertise to staff caring for children and young people requiring long-term ventilated.
- Provide clinical expertise to all registered and unregistered staff members in CCC.
- Provide comprehensive evidenced based and skilled nursing care to children within their own home and/or other community settings.
- Work with service clinical manager to maintain and improve the quality of practice and service delivery.
- Carry out and support audits to demonstrate effectiveness.
- Identify alongside the service clinical lead training requirements for Childrens Complex Care service.
- Responsible for ensuring assessments, planning, and delivery of holistic care is at the highest standard using an agreed nursing model.
- Ensure that Essential Care Indicators (ECIs) are completed and acted upon to ensure improvements are made within in a timely manner.
- Support equality and diversity when engaging in professional duties with clients and in all working relationships. Ensure the cultural, religious and spiritual needs of CYP and their families are considered through all aspects of their care
- Will delegate and monitor the individual caseload of team members for effective and timely caseload management and reporting to the service manager activity data and will alert them to areas of clinical risk.
- Liaise with and work in collaboration with acute services, the primary health care team and other agencies when planning and implementing programmes of care.
- Recognise situations, which may be detrimental to the childs physical and psychological well-being, and to deal with individual situations according to Trust and local agency policies.
- Teaching/mentoring of staff
- Undertake risk assessments prior to service delivery within the home setting to ensure staff safety.
- Responsible for ensuring staff maintain trust standards in record keeping. Maintain clear and contemporaneous records. Ensure information is obtained and recorded before undertaking care.
- Responsible for Safeguarding Children by:- Ensuring all staff attend required training- Ensuring staff receive safeguarding supervision- Deputising for the service clinical manager as required
Person Specification
Qualifications / training
Essential
- oRegistered Staff Children's Nurse (RSCN) or Registered Nurse (RN) Child Branch or equivalent qualification
- oEvidence of recent Post Basic Training
- oCommunity Children's Nursing qualification degree level or willingness to undertake
- oENB 998 (Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice) or equivalent
- oClinical assessment course/Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Desirable
- oIndependent supplementary nurse prescriber
Experience
Essential
- oExperience working with children with complex health needs, including end of life care
- oExtensive experience working as RSCN/RN child branch
Skill/Knowledge
Essential
- oAbility to manage the team on a day-to-day basis.
- oDemonstrate knowledge relating to child protection issues and procedures
- oEvidence of assessment skills and use of the nursing process and nursing models
- oAbility to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of NMC Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Care
- oAbility to demonstrate knowledge of current legislative changes effecting the NHS and Social Services particularly those affecting Primary Care
- oAbility to demonstrate up to date knowledge and application of clinical trends and practices including evidence-based, particularly concerning Children's Community Nursing
- oAbility to teach relatives, patients, clients, students, and staff across all areas of self-care and appropriate nursing practice
Other job requirements
Essential
- oIndependently mobile across the trust
- oFlexible approach to working hours, times and days of week
Person Specification
Qualifications / training
Essential
- oRegistered Staff Children's Nurse (RSCN) or Registered Nurse (RN) Child Branch or equivalent qualification
- oEvidence of recent Post Basic Training
- oCommunity Children's Nursing qualification degree level or willingness to undertake
- oENB 998 (Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice) or equivalent
- oClinical assessment course/Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Desirable
- oIndependent supplementary nurse prescriber
Experience
Essential
- oExperience working with children with complex health needs, including end of life care
- oExtensive experience working as RSCN/RN child branch
Skill/Knowledge
Essential
- oAbility to manage the team on a day-to-day basis.
- oDemonstrate knowledge relating to child protection issues and procedures
- oEvidence of assessment skills and use of the nursing process and nursing models
- oAbility to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of NMC Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Care
- oAbility to demonstrate knowledge of current legislative changes effecting the NHS and Social Services particularly those affecting Primary Care
- oAbility to demonstrate up to date knowledge and application of clinical trends and practices including evidence-based, particularly concerning Children's Community Nursing
- oAbility to teach relatives, patients, clients, students, and staff across all areas of self-care and appropriate nursing practice
Other job requirements
Essential
- oIndependently mobile across the trust
- oFlexible approach to working hours, times and days of week
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).
