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Clinical Nurse Specialist: Paediatrics

Employer
University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust
Location
Newcastle-Under-Lyme
Salary
£43,742 to £50,056 per annum
Closing date
2 Dec 2023
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An exciting 12 month secondment opportunity is available for a motivated, enthusiastic individual to join our Children's Respiratory Team as the Band 7 Children's Long Term Ventilation and Complex Care Clinical Nurse Specialist.

The post holder will based at the Royal Stoke Hospital site and will work closely with the respiratory multidisciplinary team, children's intensive care and high dependency units and community providers.

The post holder will be the bridge between primary, secondary and tertiary care services, responsible for assessing the needs of the child and young person and supporting families in gaining packages of care and providing and delivering their treatment needs. You need to be enthusiastic, dynamic, proactive, innovative, and highly motivated. You must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills to enable you to work with the multidisciplinary teams in secondary, tertiary and primary care services.

All applicants will be expected to meet the essential criteria and possess the relevant post registration experience as outlined in the person specification.

Main duties of the job

This post provides a highly developed and effective service for children with non-invasive ventilation and complex care needs.

The post holder will have good communication, analytical and planning skills. They will work effectively and efficiently with children, parent/carers and multidisciplinary teams working in primary and secondary care settings.

The post holder will ensure a high quality service is maintained by monitoring standards and benchmarking local delivery against national standards.

The post holder will develop and deliver innovative and evidence based practice through professional leadership supporting the clinical team to develop the specialist area of non invasive ventilation and complex care.

The post holder will develop and deliver nurse led clinics.

The post holder will contribute to the management of a quality and cost effective service. The post holder will liaise with the clinical and professional leads and advise staff on professional issues.

The post holder will maintain a clinical input and keep up-to-date with professional issues and ensure that local and national procedures and guidelines are followed at all times within the long term non invasive ventilation and complex care arena.

The post holder will act as a credible and professional role model and encourage and empower other staff to develop both professionally and personabaly to achieve their maxiamum potential. Creating a positive and supportive work environment for staff.

About us

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description or contact hiring manager.

An exciting 12 month secondment opportunity is available for a motivated, enthusiastic individual to join our Childrens Respiratory Team as the Band 7 Childrens Long Term Ventilation and Complex Care Clinical Nurse Specialist.

The post holder will based at the Royal Stoke Hospital site and will work closely with the respiratory multidisciplinary team, childrens intensive care and high dependency units and community providers.

The post holder will be the bridge between primary, secondary and tertiary care services, responsible for assessing the needs of the child and young person and supporting families in gaining packages of care and providing and delivering their treatment needs. You need to be enthusiastic, dynamic, proactive, innovative, and highly motivated. You must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills to enable you to work with the multidisciplinary teams in secondary, tertiary and primary care services.

All applicants will be expected to meet the essential criteria and possess the relevant post registration experience as outlined in the person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NMC Children's Nurse Registration
  • Degree level qualification or equivalent in Health/Nursing related studies
  • Advanced Paediatric Life Support / Paediatric Life Support Qualification
  • Mentoring/teaching qualification
  • Proficient in the use of Microsoft office: Word, Excel, access and Power-point
  • Portfolio of certified/accredited professional development activity undertaken in relevant areas


Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience

Essential

  • Minimum 5 years post registration experience with 2 years experience of working with children and young people with respiratory/complex health needs
  • Awareness of current issues related to LTV/respiratory care
  • Ability to prioritise workload in response to service need
  • Ability to work autonomously and be accountable for own actions
  • Ability to work as part of the wider team
  • Excellent written and communication skills
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner
  • Ability to contribute directly to the production of strategy and policy documentation
  • Ability to apply evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events and activities
  • Ability to understand, interpret and critically analyse data and information


Desirable

  • Experience of working across boundaries to develop networks with key stakeholders


Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Positive mindset in respect of supporting organisational change learning, and continuous improvement.
  • Effective interpersonal and intrapersonal skills including high degree of self-awareness and self- regulation
  • Able to work within a multidisciplinary team
  • Consistently professional, collaborative and compassionate approach
  • Acts to support and enable effective teamwork
  • Delivers work of consistent and predictable high quality
  • Ability to travel to and work across multiple sites
  • Excellent attendance record


Employer details

Employer name

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Address

Staffordshire Children's Hospital Royal Stoke

Newcastle Road

Newcastle-Under-Lyme

ST4 6QG

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205-5776339

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