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    Rotational Physiotherapist Band 5 - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

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    Job overview

    Whittington Health NHS Trust has a ground-breaking, friendly, and new NCL (North Central London) Paediatric Bladder and Bowel team delivering care for Children in the community of all NCL boroughs. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, passionate, and highly motivated paediatric nurse, to join the paediatric community team at The Whittington Health NHS Trust. The successful candidate will join a forward-thinking team of experienced nurses, with extensive opportunities to enhance and develop competences and skill set when providing patient care in autonomous nurse led clinics. The post holder will be a highly visible senior nurse and as such expected to provide specialist knowledge, advice/support, and clinical expertise to the wider team.

    Main duties of the job

    Working as a team player, your role will require excellent physical assessment skills, partnership working and a strong commitment towards achieving the outcomes to improve the health and wellbeing of this patient group. You will be expected to demonstrate clinical expertise and governance in all aspects of your work, being supported by robust organisational supervision, guidelines, and policies.
    Facilitate independent nurse led clinics for Bladder and Bowel conditions.
    Manage these conditions confidently with an aim to gain optimum control and discharge back to the care of the GP or if this is not possible refer up to secondary care for further intervention and support.
    Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care for children and young people with B&B conditions.
    Act as a visible role model and expert practitioner in primary care, providing teaching and upskill staff within GP practices and health centres.

    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

    The NCL Bladder and Bowel service sits within our Paediatric Primary Care Service and is commissioned by NCL ICB, and works collaboratively with stakeholders including GP practices, the children's community nursing team, secondary care departments, tertiary care and the commissioning team with an aim to educate, support and empower families to better manage their B&B conditions in the community.

    The post holder will help to drive an innovative service which involves facilitating nurse led clinics within either GP practices or Health Centre's for B&B conditions, this will be in both face to face and virtual formats. The B&B team engage effectively with both primary, secondary and tertiary care provisions as patients can move between providers. Patients can be referred into the service via their GP or practice nurse or community nursing team.

    The post holder will be expected to confidently complete history taking, perform physical examination, initiate effective treatment and care planning, with routine follow up to ensure patients are responding to treatment and to assure compliance to treatment. The post holder will ensure that effective communication with GP's are maintained when requesting prescriptions and work within the ICB's medicine managements guidance.

    The post holder will support the team leader, community matron and assistant director of children's and family Services to embed and develop the Paediatric Bladder and Bowel service.

    The post holder will be supported by an integrated team approach with Practice Nurses and encouraged to develop their skills to provide effective care.

    The post holder will contribute towards service development to encourage and support management of chronic illness within primary care to aim to minimise hospital attendance, admissions, and re-admissions.

    The post holder will be expected to act as a visible role model and expert practitioner in the B&B team within the paediatric primary care and will be expected to ensure the provision of high quality safe and effective holistic care to all children and young people.

    Person specification

    Education / Qualifications

    Essential criteria

  • RN / RSCN with current registration
  • Mentorship qualification or equivalent
  • Evidence of further professional development in relevant subject area e.g., Respiratory, Allergy, Dermatology, and constipation
  • Desirable criteria

  • Advanced History Taking and Physical Assessment Course - Level 7
  • Eric B&B training
  • Skills

    Essential criteria

  • Well developed general paediatric nursing skills
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Good teaching and assessing skills
  • Paediatric advocate
  • Ability to supervise junior nursing staff and students
  • Good problem solving skills
  • Competent IT skills - using EMIS / MEDWAY / Anglia ICE and RIO
  • Competent and contemporaneous clinical notes
  • Good leadership and organisational skills
  • Desirable criteria

  • B&B Skills and experience
  • Knowledge

    Essential criteria

  • General paediatric nursing experience
  • Experience of nursing enuresis and constipation paediatric patients
  • Experience of working with learners
  • Knowledge of current issues and NHS reforms locally and nationally
  • Desirable criteria

  • Emergency Department nursing experience
  • community nursing experience
  • Clear understanding of child protection policies
  • Principles of teaching and assessment of learners
  • Personal qualities

    Essential criteria

  • Professional demeanour
  • Committed to family centred care
  • Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team
  • Ability to work autonomously without direct supervision
  • Self-motivated and the ability to motivate others
  • Motivated to learn and develop and to teach others
  • Approachable, flexible, adaptable and supportive
  • Positive attitude to change and development within the team
  • Ability to recognise stress within self and team and identify coping mechanisms
  • Able to work flexible hours to cover service needs if required
  • Willing to rotate to other paediatric areas to meet service needs as required
  • Good attendance record
  • 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.



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