Children's Community Senior Practitioner/Team leader

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Job overview

JOB SUMMARY

To manage the Generalist Community Children's Nursing (CCN) Team, which includes supporting hospital @home nurses and working key CNS's within the community and administrators. The service is provided to children and young people living in the London borough of Islington. The main responsibilities for the post are to:-

o To ensure that the nursing needs of children are identified, with appropriate strategies, to meet those needs at home or in other community settings. Children may require short term acute interventions and clinical care through to case management for children with long term conditions, complex health needs and physical disability.

o To undertake clinical activities and responsibilities for an appropriately reduced caseload and at times act as the multi-agency lead professional.

o To be accountable for Generalist CCN team standards of practice according to Trust and National guidelines.

Main duties of the job

1 Main Duties include: managing the children's community nursing team.

s Managing the caseload and supporting the team to undertake visits, this includes children from the active and dormant caseload.

Ensuring monthly caseload reviews

Attending DPM with staff.

Holding a small caseload and supporting young people through transition.

Working closely with MDT and other AHP.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To operationally manage the nursing and support staff of the generalist team. To ensure all financial transactions are carried out in accordance with the Trust's instruction and within service resources.

To implement and carry out annual appraisals in accordance with the Trust Guidelines and consider the future development and training needs that staff that may be identified because of this process. Ensure that all team members have accessible and robust clinical supervision, according to Trust Guidelines, and monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the supervision.

To provide regular caseload management supervision including child protection advice to members and facilitate a rolling programme of caseload reviews.

To ensure robust standards and frameworks are in place, in line with current recommendations, to ensure children always receive high quality family centred care.

To arrange quarterly safeguarding supervision with the trust's named safeguarding lead.

(see full attached JD and Job Spec)

Person specification

Application

Essential criteria

• Years of Experience
• Management Responsibility
• Degree qualification/ or Specialist Practitioner

Desirable criteria

• ANP qualification
• Atopy experience
• Non Medical prescribing

tested through interview and application

Essential criteria

• years of experience
• qualification of RSCN
• Specialist Practitioner qualification

Desirable criteria

• Advanced Nurse Practitioner Course
• Non-Medical - prescriber Qualification
• Leadership Course/ Development program

Interview

Essential criteria

• Experience of managing staff and team
• Experience of caseload management
• Evidence in managing some atopic conditions in the community

Desirable criteria

• Budget management
• Experience working with commissioners
• Experience in running consultations in a clinic setting

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form -

1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes -

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information -

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• CCN Band 7 JD (PDF, 760.3KB)
• CCN Band 7 Job Spec (PDF, 280.6KB)
• Whittington Probationary Policy (PDF, 298.0KB)