We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated nurse who is passionate to work with in the Children's Rapid Response Team (RR) to ensure high quality, specialist nursing care to children and families in their own home. In order to prevent inappropriate hospital admission/attendances and shortening length of hospital stay whilst providing greater choice to families around chosen place of care.
The successful applicant will work as part of a well-established dynamic team who provide specialist advice and support to children, young people and their families and all members of the health care teams involved in the child/young person's care. You will work alongside Children's Community nursing (CCN) and Palliative Care Teams (PC).
Full time/part time/flexible hours of working will be considered at interview.
Main duties of the job
You will work very closely with the Co-Ordinator for Children's Community Nursing and Rapid Response to ensure a high standard of care is offered to children/young people. You will support the Clinical co-ordinator with the clinical and professional management of the Children's Rapid Response Service (CRRS) to ensure safe and effective care delivery. Overseeing the effective and efficient use of skills and resources to ensure the team and the service is organised to meet the needs of the patients and their families.
You will be proactive in promoting early discharge of children and young people already known to the CCN and PC Teams, reducing the length of hospital stay. You will work with the Children's Rapid Response team and acute teams to identify children and young people that could be cared for at home where it would be clinically safe to do so.
You will be expected at times of extreme pressure within the acute to work as directed to facilitate a reduced length of stay for children and young people that are potentially not known already to the CCN and PC Team.
About us
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (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, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation 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 better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
Job responsibilities
For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent qualification
* ENB 998 (Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice) or equivalent
* Independent supplementary Nurse Prescriber.
* Clinical assessment course/ Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Experience
* Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team including planning of complex discharges
* Evidence of innovative and evidence based practice
* Experience working with children with very complex healthcare needs/life limiting/threatening illnesses and End of Life.
* Extensive experience of working with children and young people with very complex healthcare or palliative care needs.
* Ability to allocate workload of a team appropriately maintaining patient safety and maximising clinical resources
* Evidence of multi-disciplinary working within a community setting
Skills/Knowledge
* In depth knowledge, understanding and experience of managing child protection and risk management issues
* Excellent communication skills and the ability to work under pressure supporting difficult conversations.
* Work as a member of a team and as an autonomous practitioner.
* Ensure care is evidence based and clinical guidelines are adhered to, developing further pathways to enhance safe care delivery.
* Provide leadership and direction to the other members of the team
* Regularly utilises literacy, numeracy and analytical skills in the compilation of reports and the management of information/data
* Understanding the impact different cultures and religions may have on the management of children/young people with complex healthcare needs.
Other Job Requirements
* Access to independent means of transport
* Ability to work flexible hours, evenings, weekends, Bank holidays.
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.
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