Job summary
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
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
Please refer to the attached Job Description/Person Specification for more details regarding the post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description/Person Specification for more details regarding the post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
- Extensive experience at minimum A4C Band 7 practitioner level in a healthcare setting or social care setting
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- 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
- 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
- Other job requirements Access to transport to mobilise across the Trust footprint
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
- Extensive experience at minimum A4C Band 7 practitioner level in a healthcare setting or social care setting
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- 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
- 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
- Other job requirements Access to transport to mobilise across the Trust footprint
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).
