Matron Community Children's Nurse - West Bromwich, United Kingdom - Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

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    Job summary

    Make a difference for Children, Young People and Families

    Are you a Children's Nurse with substantial experience at a senior level looking for the next step in your career?

    Are you passionate about providing and developing excellent services for children and young people?

    If so Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust are looking to appoint an ambitious and compassionate Matron for our Community Children's Service; to ensure that children and young people get the best possible care and treatment when accessing services.

    The Community Children's Nurse Service provide specialist services for; Continuing Care, Community Children's Nurse for short intervention & chronic conditions (SICC), Diabetes, Epilepsy, Special Educational Needs team (SENT) and virtual ward.

    Main duties of the job

    You will:

  • Be highly visible.
  • Be clinically credible.
  • Be committed to developing and transforming services.
  • Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams across acute and community settings.
  • For the areas you lead and manage you will be accountable for:

  • Ensuring safe, effective, responsive, high-quality services
  • Workforce management
  • Finance and budgeting.
  • Education and development
  • Patient flow
  • Performance management
  • Digital technology
  • Evidence based Practice and Research
  • If you possess strong leadership and management qualities, would like to work in a welcoming and supportive environment where you will be well supported and given the opportunity to develop to fulfil your potential and build the career you want, we would welcome an application from you.

    About us

    Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

    Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

    We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

  • Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
  • Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
  • Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
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    Job responsibilities

    For further details about this role, please see the attached job description and person specification.

    Person Specification

    Qualification

    Essential

  • RMC registration
  • A registered children's nurse
  • Evidence of a comprehensive, relevant and up-to-date CPD record
  • Desirable

  • MSC
  • Experience

    Essential

  • Extensive post-graduate and post-competency experience working with children in a variety of settings.
  • Experience of working with assistants, students, newly qualified staff and others as appropriate
  • Experience of participating in the delivery and development of training to a variety of recipients, both professional and nonprofessional.
  • Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality patient care
  • Evidence of management training.
  • Desirable

  • Experience of working within continuing care service
  • Knowledge

    Essential

  • Knowledge & experience of managing budgets