Band 6 Team Leader - 37.5 hours
Our Complex Care Team Is Made Up Of:
1. The Children’s Continuing Care Team, which provides respite in the home and school setting for children with complex needs.
2. The Long Term Ventilation Team which provides packages of care in the home for children who require ventilation to assist their breathing.
3. Swanbourne Gardens, which is a 4-bedded respite unit that provides overnight respite for children with complex needs.
As a Band 6 Team Leader working within the team, you would work across the 3 teams based out of Swanbourne Gardens. Alongside this, you will be required to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care in the child and family's own home or in school/nursery.
Communication is an integral component of this role, and communicating effectively and regularly with our teams and the parents and families is vital to ensure the effective management of our services and the provision of appropriate levels of support.
You will be at the forefront of teaching and assessing the competencies required for the staff to deliver day-to-day care for the children with complex health needs. This will include interventions such as care and management of tracheostomies, gastrostomies, and ventilation support.
You will be expected to participate in the active management of the rota to ensure delivery of commissioned packages of care and the provision of supervision and appraisals for all teams, ensuring all mandatory training is up to date. As a Band 6, we expect you to role model the trusts' values and behavior framework when working within the team.
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and one of its largest employers.
Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen.
We believe that the best organizations 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. Recognizing those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
We recognize that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive, and try to work with you to explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
* Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
* NHS pension scheme membership
* Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics, and more, to make your salary go further
* NHS Staff discounts
* Cycle to work scheme
* Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning, and tips on managing debt
* Stockport Credit Union – for local financial advice
For further details/informal visits contact:
Name: Rachel Rodgers
Job title: Community Complex Care Manager
Email address: rachel.rodgers@stockport.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0161 835 6140
Name: Leanne Mulholland
Lead Nurse for Paediatric and Neonatal Services
Email: leanne.mulholland@stockport.nhs.uk
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