Band 6 Clinical Co-ordinator Children's Community - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Professional Work in accordance with NMC code of professional Practice and Scope of Professional Practice. To be professionally and legally accountable and responsible for all activities.

Support and participate in virtual/face to face clinics to improve patient safety and patient experience of children known to the CCN team.

Provide comprehensive evidenced based and skilled nursing care to children within their own home and/or other community settings whilst undertaking advanced assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care within the team caseload.

Work with clinical lead to maintain and improve the quality of practice and service delivery through audits and data collection.

Identify alongside the clinical lead training requirements for the Childrens Community Nursing Service.

Responsible for accepting referrals and updating database on reason or rejection to team, ensure assessment, planning and delivery of holistic care is at the highest standard using an agreed nursing mode.

Ensuring team discharge patient on completion of episode of care.

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

Liaise with and work in collaboration with acute services, the primary health care team and other agencies in relation to discharge planning.

Maintain clear and contemporaneous records adhering to BCHC record keeping policies. Responsible for Safeguarding Children through adherence of Trust policy.

Management Support clusters with effective day to day allocation of the Childrens Community Nursing Team. Assisting caseload managers to determine priorities of care, coordinating skill mix on an on-going basis.

Support Team Leader/Clinical lead with management responsibilities of the team including budgets, staff rotas, cover for absence, sickness, and other absences.

Facilitate and ensure completion of Band 5 & Band 4 Nurse Associate personal development reviews, monitoring attendance at mandatory and other education and training sessions.

Act as a role model by demonstrating leadership and expertise and maintaining credibility across the organization, wider health community and external agencies ensuring that positive reputation of the organisation is maintained.

Facilitate and/or participate in the teaching and mentorship of staff, ensuring they have the knowledge and skills to fulfill their roles.

Facilitate regular team meetings to ensure good communication within the team to foster, maintain and enhance effective working relationships within the team.

Participate in research and audits relevant to the service and support both the Team Leader and Clinical Lead to conduct audit activity by continually monitoring standards of care, identifying risks, advancing knowledge within own specialist field, benchmarking and raising concerns to line manager.

Participate in developing service policies, pathways, procedures and guidelines in partnership with relevant specialists, ensuring clinical governance is central to the function of the service, assisting with developing Childrens Community Nursing Team policies alongside the Team Leader and Clinical Lead.

Maintain systems and processes to promote a healthy and safe working environment ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements maintaining accurate documentation and reporting any concerns to the line manager.

Deal with informal complaints from service users and assisting with formal investigations as requested.

Work with the Team Leader and Clinical Lead to monitor activity, performance and quality of service delivery against contractual requirements.

Ensure all incidents are reported and managed according to the policy ensuring serious incidents are reported immediately via the Childrens Divisional Management structure.

Responsible for contributing to and implementing action plans following incident reports and health & safety reviews. Responsible for clinical risk management. To have calm, diplomatic approach when dealing with distressed parent/carers demonstrating empathy, understanding and reassurance.

Education and Development Take responsibility for own learning and development by recognising and taking advantage of all opportunities to learn, including participation in the appraisal process, supervision and maintain a professional portfolio.

To identify and undertake specific training to maintain skills in line with NMC Scope of practice and development needs of the service.

Participate in the provision of in-service training for all grades of staff.

Undertake teaching mentorship and evaluation of students both at the university and during clinical placements Maintain own professional development in line with post-registration on going education and practice (Prep).

To develop and delivery bespoke training for staff within Specialist Nursing Services. To work with IT colleagues to identify and improve the IT resources required in order to provide safe allocati