Band 7 Children's Complex Care Clinical Nurse Educator

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Band 7 Children's Complex Care Clinical Nurse Educator Band 7 Main area: Children and Families
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 455-CF-A

Site: Lansdowne Health Centre
Town: Birmingham
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (pro rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: Today at 23:59

Job overview An opportunity has arisen to support the clinical leadership and training of the Children's Complex Care team in Birmingham and to ensure the highest level of nursing care is delivered to some of our most vulnerable children. The successful applicant will need to be able to deliver evidenced based clinical training and support to a large team of Health Care Assistants within a Competency Based Framework. The team works as part of a multi-disciplinary system supporting children and families to live as independently as possible away from hospital. There will be an expectation to undertake training and competency testing of Health Care Assistants, to organise and participate in clinical skills days, to oversee staff mandatory training, to undertake audit, and to work with other educational teams across Children & Families division. If you have a passion for working with children with long-term conditions within the community and have experience of teaching and assessing in clinical practice and are ready for your next challenge, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• To direct, implement and evaluate specialist training and development of the Children's Complex Care team and ensure evidence-based practice for children, young people and their families.
• The post holder will provide supervision and support to staff in a range of settings to ensure they are competent to meet the complex health care needs of individual children, contributing to the continual development of a safe, high-quality service.
• The post holder will actively contribute to projects related to nursing practice and the development of relevant service specific policies/procedures.
• The post holder will work as part of the wider Paediatric Specialist Services education team, working collaboratively across the range of Specialist Services.

Working for our organisation Be Part of Our Team

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.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Develop and deliver programmes of training and education for all members of Children's Complex Care, including a wide range of clinical competencies required by health care assistant (HCA) team using a recognised competency framework.
• Ensure evidence-based practice is developed, implemented and maintained.
• Advance the clinical educator role in the best interests of the children/young people and families and the service, developing child specific training packages. Maintain professional standards of practice and behaviour in line with The Code NMC.
• Undertake theoretical and practical demonstration of clinical care, ensuring own knowledge and skills remain clinically relevant and up to date.
• Work with staff supporting children with complex clinical needs and their families, providing practice-based support, working inevitably at times in a stressful environment.
• Facilitate the implementation of preceptorship, development programmes and clinical supervision for newly qualified and/or newly appointed staff.
• Coordinate annual resuscitation training for the complex care team undertaking relevant courses to achieve the standards to be able to provide in-house training sessions to ensure team mandatory compliance.
• Promote and facilitate the implementation of clinical supervision as a vehicle for enhancing practice and staff development for the wider Children's Complex Care team.
• Facilitate Students placements, both undergraduate and postgraduate, maximising learning opportunities, including the Trainee Nursing Associates. Complete educational audit within appropriate timescales.
• Ensure that national quality standards relevant to the service are monitored and that clinical risk management and clinical audit are an integral part of practice. Actively contribute to Trust clinical effectiveness and audit programmes.
• Establish effective communication and good working relationships with multi professional and multi-agency colleagues within the Trust and local services to support effective service delivery.
• Keep updated with current trends and advances within complex care. Keeping management team abreast of professional, operational or clinical changes or concerns.
• Provide clinical leadership and project management to take forward initiatives for service progression. Work alongside the Service Clinical Manager for Children's Complex Care to develop and update appropriate policies and standard operating procedures.
• Maintain staff and children/YP clinical records in line with NMC and Trust clinical record keeping guidelines. Maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Ensure activity data is inputted accurately and in a timely manner, using the appropriate Trust IT systems that includes; RIO, ESR, Microsoft Office etc., in accordance with service standards.
• Support families and staff through the complaints process; providing a professional and supportive approach to dissemination of lessons learned to improve services in the future.
• Requirement to take part in annual performance appraisals, where this job description will be reviewed and objectives set. Complete appraisals for any staff with direct line management responsibility.

Management and Leadership

• To adhere to and follow the Trust's Health and Safety Policies and instructions and be responsible for your own and others health and safety in the workplace.
• Be expected to contribute to the creation of a working environment where everyone feels respected, valued and treated with dignity.
• The Trust embraces the principles of Improving Working Lives and all staff will be required to adhere to the standards laid down in this initiative.
• Undertake any other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager.

Person specification Qualifications / Training

• Registered first level Children's Nurse, who holds effective registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Degree or equivalent qualification.
• Recognised teaching qualification e.g., Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Standards to support learning and assessment in practice SLAIP, ENB 998, or equivalent/relevant teaching qualification.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Paediatric Immediate Life Support course.

Experience

• Significant post qualification experience across a broad range of children's nursing including experience in long term ventilation.
• Extensive experience of clinical training and teaching in a variety of settings.
• Experience in Children's Palliative Care and care of children with life limiting conditions.
• Experience of supporting staff.
• Community children's nursing experience.

Skills/Knowledge

• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of supporting babies, children and young people with a range of complex health needs, long term ventilation and life limiting conditions.
• Demonstrate a high standard of communication skills with the multiagency team.
• Demonstrate sound personal management skills: time management, prioritising, planning.
• Demonstrate advanced teaching and supervisory skills of colleagues, students and staff employed by external agencies.
• Have good working knowledge of Safeguarding and Child Protection.
• Must be committed to principles of Equal Opportunity.
• Must demonstrate a wide range of clinical skills including good working knowledge of long-term ventilation.

Personal Qualities

• Ability to demonstrate relevant effective learning from this experience.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Ability to work as part of a Team.
• Ability to work across multi-disciplines and agencies.
• Be resilient to occasionally be exposed to verbal conflict or risk of physical hostility.

Other Job Requirements

• Car driver / owner or use of suitable alternative transport to enable the job is undertaken.
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