Community Children's Nurse (SpQ) Senior Sister

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POST:

Clinical responsibilities / Professional Practice

Provide comprehensive evidenced based and skilled nursing care to children within their own home and / or other community settings.

Provide continuous responsibility for the assessment, management and evaluation of care programs in negotiation with the CYP and family / carers.

To act in accordance with and role model CCNS standards of care, operational procedures, the Trust clinical standards and guidelines and the NMC code of professional conduct.

To work in a collaborative manner with all professionals and agencies involved with the BCYP to ensure a seamless delivery of care that spans through to transition to adult services.

To act at all times to safeguard BCYP and vulnerable adults in accordance with Trust safeguarding policy.

To act as the patient's advocate, by providing information and support, facilitating the patient's choices with regards to nursing care, promoting independence and self-care as appropriate.

Support equality and diversity when engaging in professional duties with BCYP and in all working relationships.

To support the Lead Nurse in the development of nursing policies, CCNS SOPs and guidelines and provide support for staff with individual patient plans of care.

To promote health education as an integrated aspect of care delivery.

To lead complex discharge planning, assessment and provision for BCYP needs, ensuring detailed communication with the discharging hospital / department / MDT to enable a safe discharge for the patient and family / carers.

To work with colleagues in the Children's Community Nursing Service and MDT, facilitating every opportunity to reduce hospital admissions and early discharge of BCYP.

To empower parents / carers to enable them to safely care for their BCYP within the community environment, through education and support.

To design and update CCNS training documentation and provision to enable parents / carers, through education and support.

Be responsible for ensuring staff adhere to Trust standards in record keeping, maintaining clear and contemporaneous records. Ensure information obtained and recorded is appropriately shared with multi-agency professionals whilst adhering to standards.

Undertake and support staff members to utilise Trust and local risk policy and documentation to assess prior to, and during service delivery within the community setting, to ensure personal and patient safety.

To participate in practice refection, safeguarding and clinical supervision.

Management and Leadership Responsibilities

Provide day to day management of the Children's Community Nursing Service, escalating concerns to the Lead Nurse.

Act as a role model promoting the work of the Children's Community Nursing Service and ensuring that clinical practice and services are evidence-based, policy driven, and delivered to the highest possible standards of person-centred care.

Undertake management responsibilities of the service alongside the Lead Nurse, including: ordering and approval of items within agreed budgets, Health Roster management, and absence monitoring and performance management.

Support the Lead Nurse in ensuring that resources are used to achieve high quality, effective services that provide value for money; recognising opportunities for cost-saving and efficiency measures.

Facilitate and ensure completion of staff appraisals, 1:1 meetings, and monitor compliancy with statutory and mandatory and other educational and training provision.

Ensure all service members engage in regular team reflection, clinical and safeguarding supervision.

Teach, support and empower colleagues and junior staff in their clinical decision-making.

Delegate and monitor the individual caseloads of junior staff to achieve effective and timely management, alerting the Lead Nurse to areas of clinical risk.

Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with Integrated Care Boards, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary care providers, social care, education, statutory / voluntary organisations and other agencies, in order to provide a comprehensive service to the BCYP and family / carers. Identify measures to improve working practices.

Monitor and develop the work of the Children's Community Nursing Service within the context of Trust, local and national strategies.

Actively participate in the recruitment, orientation, education and development and retention of staff new to and within the Children's Community Nursing Service.

Participate in CCNS, Specialist Nursing, Divisional, external and other relevant meetings, deputising for the Lead Nurse where required.

Demonstrate practice within the Trust and local policies and procedures, facilitating others understanding and adherence.

Ensure all DATIX reports are completed, reviewed, investigated and learning and action plans are shared with the CCNS and clinical teams in a timely way. Liaise with the Lead Nurse and Paediatric Quality and Risk Manager regarding any incidents that may require a rapid review or concise investigation, contributing to these processes when required.

Participate in the processes of clinical risk management and clinical governance.

Share the responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self and others in the working environment, following safe working practices complying with the Trust's and local Health and Safety Policies, Procedures and guidelines at all times.

Participate in the evaluation and organisation of measures that invest in staff health and wellbeing.

Education
• Undertake educational leadership responsibility within the CCNS, working with the Epsom base B7 Educational Lead, the service B7 Clinical Leads and Division Practice Education Team.
• Actively seek opportunities to continually develop oneself, consistent with lifelong learning and in line with professional bodies' continuous professional development requirements.
• Identify requirements, design, implement and update competencies and programmes of education specific to the CCNS.
• Champion and facilitate the personal and professional development of CCNS staff, to demonstrate performance and behaviours that support delivery of patient-focussed, flexible and innovative care in an environment that values learning.
• Undertake opportunities for formal and opportunistic teaching and educational to ensure high quality clinical practice within the service; sharing this knowledge within the Division.
• Within the CCNS annual report produced by the Lead Nurse, produce a report regarding service education and training, provision and achievements.
• Be responsible for collating the annual training needs analysis (TNA) for the CCNS in collaboration with the Lead Nurse.
• Represent the CCNS at bimonthly Neonatal & Paediatric Education & Training meetings.

Demonstrate a commitment to research and evidence based practice.

Service improvement and Policy Development

Support the Lead Nurse and SpQ CCN B7 colleagues to conduct audit activity by undertaking monthly Tendable audits, continually monitoring standards of care, identifying risks, advancing knowledge within own specialist field, benchmarking and raising concerns as identified.

Alongside the Lead Nurse, participate in developing service policies, procedures and guidelines in partnership with relevant specialists; ensuring clinical governance is central to the function of the service.

Alongside the Lead Nurse, provide assurance that the CCNS is safe, caring, responsive, effective and well-led and be able to evidence this to internal and external regulators.

Ensure regular Friends and Family feedback /patient experience activity is carried out. Work with the Lead Nurse, SpQ CCN B7 colleagues and patient experience team to investigate and resolve complaints, and record and celebrate compliments.

Work with the Lead Nurse, Senior Leadership team and Trust teams to monitor activity, performance and quality of service delivery against contractual requirements.

General responsibilities

To support the department and organisation by carrying out any other duties that reasonably fit within the broad scope of a job of this grade and type of work.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

• RSCN/RN Child
• Specialist Practice Community Children's Nurse
• ENB 998 (Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice) or equivalent
• IV Certificate/Capital Nurse

Desirable criteria

• Leadership and Management qualification (e.g. NHS Leadership Academy) / Florence Nightingale Foundation / ILM)
• Practice Educator
• Tracheostomy trainer
• CVAD/ANTT trainer

Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous experience at B7 level or extensive experience at B6 level
• Experience working with children with life limiting/threatening illnesses and End of Life
• Knowledge of the current workforce, quality and education agendas within the NHS setting

Desirable criteria

• Delivering education and training
• Experience in Quality Improvement, Risk management and recruitment
• Experience of completing audits, developing action plans and monitoring

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• National and local guidance in relation to the care of CYP in the Community setting
• Application of evidence based up-to-date clinical practice

Desirable criteria

• Health Roster management
• NHS Supply chain and SBS ordering

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellence in clinical skills
• Evidence of mentorship, supervision, facilitation and teaching

Desirable criteria

• QI knowledge and skills
• Budget awareness / management

Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Disability Advice Line: SWL Recruitment Hub is committed to promoting equity and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We believe that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even more positive impact on the people we serve. For support with job opportunities and reasonable adjustments contact our Confidential Disability Advice Line at:

Telephone: 02082963786

Text: 07501066267

Email: esth.dal@nhs.net.

Our confidential answering service is available after 5pm.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Band 7 Specialist Practice Community Children's Nurse, with education lead responsibility (PDF, 984.2KB)
• DBS Policy (PDF, 101.1KB)
• We're here to care (DOC, 39.0KB)