Shsct_Ccn Team Leader Band 7

St Luke's Hosp-Hill Building

Job Description / Personnel Specification (docx)

Team Leader

Band 7

Community v

Community Children’s Nursing Team Leader (Armagh & Dungannon)

Band 7

Children & Young People’s Service

Hill Building, Armagh

Lead Nurse for Community Children’s Nursing Service

Head of Service;
Community Paediatrics, Community Children’s Nursing and Specialist Services.

To provide clinical leadership and support for a mixed skill Community Children’s Nursing Team, ensuring high quality service provision to children with nursing needs at home and in other community settings, and their families. The post holder will fulfil general management responsibilities for a designated Community Children’s Nursing Team including nurses, Health Care Workers and administrative staff.

Maintain clinical competence and deliver clinical care to children and young people.

Promote and monitor safe, effective child and family centred care.

Support the Lead Nurse to ensure delivery and development of service based on assessed need and in line with strategic direction.

Support the coordination of discharges and transitions for children with complex nursing needs to include initial hospital discharge, and subsequent transitions between hospital, home, and school and between different services and directorates, ensuring excellent communication, robust interagency working and timely discharge/transition arrangements.

Develop partnership approaches with Children’s Disability Social Work teams, Medical and Allied Health Professionals and pursue networking opportunities across professional, organisational boundaries and with voluntary bodies.

• Comply with NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Ensure practice reflects the standards set in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct:
  Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour for Nurses and Midwives.
• Comply with NMC requirements to ensure continuing professional development.
• Comply with Regional Safeguarding Policies and Procedures and ensure Trust Policies and Procedures for safeguarding are adhered to.

• Provide day to day management of a mixed skilled Community Children’s Nursing Team.
• Work in partnership with staff and support the Lead Nurse with the implementation of the Trust’s Nursing and Midwifery Strategy.
• Ensure effective communication within the team.
• Promote good staff relationships and team morale through staff engagement, effective feedback, recognition and appreciation.
• Observe for signs of ill health or stress in staff and take appropriate action.
• Ensure prompt and efficient procedures for monitoring and management of sick leave are implemented according to Trust policy.
• Ensure systems are in place to provide managerial cover for the Community Children’s Nursing Team during periods of e.g. annual leave or study leave.
• Participate in selection and interviewing panels as required.
• Participate in disciplinary/ grievance/capability procedures as per Trust guidelines.

• Plan and implement duty rotas and annual leave arrangements within existing resources, to ensure an appropriate skill mix to deliver care based on assessed need.
• Undertake ongoing caseload review and ensure fair and equitable caseload allocation.
• Oversee and support staff to manage and review packages of care and short break provision.
• Support the co-ordination and facilitation of Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings required to assess, plan, implement and review care of children on the Community Children’s Nursing caseload.
• Develop robust communication channels ensuring a…