Band 6 Children's Clinical Co-Ordinator

Band 6 Children's Clinical Co‑Ordinator NHS AfC:
Band 6 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.

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.

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.

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…