The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Are you a compassionate and experienced nurse/midwife committed to reducing child deaths?
The Child Death Review Team is a small, professional and supportive team who are looking to welcome a new member. We review all child deaths from 0-17 years throughout Southend, Essex and Thurrock.
We are looking for a new team member to assist in the provision of high standards of holistic, family-centred care, supporting families who have experienced the death of a child.
The successful candidate will work in partnership with agencies to ensure a co-ordinated approach within the Child Death Review process to support families, ensure a thorough, robust review and to share the learning from the review. You will also be an expert resource for the multi-professional team.
Main duties of the job
1. All requests for a JAR will be met within 24 hours, by participation in a county-wide rota to enable an on-call response for 58 hours per week, which will be supported by other team members.
2. Collaborate with Designated and Named Professionals across SET to ensure a consistent and co-ordinated approach to child death review practice across the health economy.
3. Provide expert up-to-date advice, training, and supervision to appropriate professionals working with children on issues relating to child death review practice.
4. Have an advanced understanding of child care legislation, information sharing, information governance, confidentiality, and consent, and be able to give advice to others on these.
5. Organise and represent at relevant meetings.
6. Promote and facilitate good partnership working with all agencies enabling effective outcomes for children and young people.
7. Ensure that performance data and supporting evidence for reporting frameworks is maintained.
8. Participate in the dissemination of information and learning from child death reviews, in a variety of educational forums, to all members of the multi-agency teams across the health economy.
About us
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
1. Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.
2. Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.
3. Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification. This is available to download at any time.
Person Specification
Experience
* Evidence of working with external agencies; ability to work inter-professionally and across professional boundaries.
* Significant acute/community experience.
* Previous experience of working with families, children, and young people.
* Experience of participation at Joint Agency Response in a professional capacity.
Qualifications
* Registered Midwife or Registered Nurse.
* Educated to degree level or equivalent.
* Advanced Multi-Agency Child Protection Training.
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.
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
£37,338 to £52,809 a year per annum plus 5% high cost area supplement.
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