Band 6 Children's Clinical Co-Ordinator

Job overview

This is a new and exciting post available within the Children’s Community Nursing team. The post holder will be expected to work with the Clinical Lead and Team Leader for Children’s Community Nursing Team, to ensure safe and effective care delivery for the service users. 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Professional

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. Management 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