Job summary

Are you passionate about students on placement and education?

Our dynamic practice placement team are seeking a motivated dynamic individual to assist and support us in the delivery of our practice placements across Birmingham Womens and Childrens Hospital.

The post holder will work with the (non-medical) practice placements team in supporting our students in practice.

Main duties of the job

This post is based at Birmingham Childrens Hospital; with the ability to work a cross-site is essential and the post holder is required to also work as part of the wider PPM team at Birmingham Womens, Mental Health Services and associated satellite sites.

RECRUITING MANAGER CONTACT DETAILS

For more information about this post please contact:

Lyndsay Evans - Practice Placement Manager

Lyndsay.evans1@nhs.net

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families.

Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas. Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care. Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of robust clinical knowledge and skills relating to paediatric practice
• Able to demonstrate knowledge of current clinical guidelines
• Evidence of teaching within clinical environments
• Evidence of implementation of guidelines in current post
• Evidence of involvement in training programmes within an organization
• Evidence of multi-professional team working
• Evidence of teaching within the following formal environments:
• Eg. Educational establishments, advanced life support courses etc

Desirable

• Ability to deliver skills training and simulation
• Evidence of Paediatric Assessment Skills

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

Essential

• Previous administration experience for covering diaries and meetings as required.
• Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook, use of internet
• Accuracy with in-putting of data.

Qualifications

Essential

• RSCN/RN Child branch OR RM
• OR RN Adult with relevant paediatric experience
• OR Registered AHP
• Recognised teaching qualification or willingness to work towards

Desirable

• Paediatric Immediate Life Support (PILS) Instructor or Immediate Life Support (ILS) Instructor or willingness to undertake

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential

• Understanding of multi-professional policies, procedures and codes of conduct

Desirable

• Knowledge of and evidence of participation in audit

Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes

Essential

• Able to demonstrate well developed interpersonal skills
• Ability to relate and communicate to staff at all levels
• Ability to work effectively with multi-disciplinary teams
• Motivational skills that inspire others
• Ability to work with a range of competing stakeholders and internal partners effectively
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including excellent presentation skills
• Ability to concentrate frequently for checking documents, writing reports and analysing results
• Familiarity with data collection techniques, including surveys and interviews
• Personal Skills
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic
• Sound presentation skills
• Prepared to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service. This may require involvement in recruitment/open day events on weekends and delivery of education/training across sites
• Excellent report writing
• Ability to demonstrate personal leadership skills
• Staff development and training
• Computer literate
• Evidence of up to date manual handling training
• Demonstrate safe handling and management of training equipment
• Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust
• Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role
• Team working
• Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required

Desirable

• Ability to manage own workload, work and plan autonomously
• Resource/Change management

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