Job description
Children and Families Division
Location: Lansdowne Health Centre
Hours: 37.5 per week with an on- call requirement for this post.
Team Leader – Children’s Community Nursing
An exciting development opportunity has arisen within Children’s and Families Division for a Team Leader in the Children’s Community Nursing team. The post holder will be responsible for the clinical and professional leadership/ management of the Children’s Community Nursing Team to ensure safe and effective care delivery.
Additionally, applicants will be required to demonstrate proven skills in the management of staff together with significant clinical experience.
Applications should be made online at www.jobs.nhs.uk. If access to a computer is unavailable, application packs can be obtained from the Recruitment Office on 0121 466 7430 option 7.
The post holder will be responsible for the clinical and professional leadership/management of the Children’s community Nursing Team to ensure safe and effective care deliver. Overseeing the effective and efficient use of skills and resources to ensure the team and the service is organized to meet the needs of the patients and their families. The post holder will be expected to work with the Paediatric Palliative Care Specialist Nurse to ensure the integrated community nursing team is able to support Children with life limiting conditions in the terminal phase of their lives alongside their parents and carers.
Act as a role model for the team in terms of clinical and quality standards, providing clinical leadership and support to all team members through clinical supervision. Line managing the Children’s Nursing team in order that they provide evidenced based care, advice and support to children, their families and carers.
Be Part of Our Team...
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 and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab 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 best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
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.
- Provide clinical expertise as a team leader.
- Provide comprehensive evidenced based and skilled nursing care to children within their own home and/or other community settings.
- Work with clinical lead to maintain and improve the quality of practice and service delivery.
- Carry out and support audits to demonstrate effectiveness.
- Identify alongside the clinical lead training requirements for CCN Service
- Responsible for accepting referrals, 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.
- Will delegate and monitor the individual caseload of team members for effective and timely caseload management and reporting to the service manager activity data and will alert them to areas of clinical risk.
- Liaise with and work in collaboration with acute services, the primary health care team and other agencies when planning and implementing programmes of care.
- Recognise situations, which may be detrimental to the child’s physical and psychological well-being, and to deal with individual situations according to Trust and local agency policies.
- Undertake risk assessments prior to service delivery within the home setting to ensure staff safety.