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Job summary

Main area
Pediatric Intensive care
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent: Pediatric Intensive Care
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
284-24-6492211-DMUT
Employer
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Birmingham Women and Children's hospital
Town
Birmingham
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 Per year (pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/08/2024 23:59

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Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust logo

Junior Sister / Charge Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

We are looking for motivated and experienced Paediatric Intensive Care (PIC) nurses to join our Band 6 team.  You must be on part one of the NMC register (adult or children); have completed a Specialist Intensive Care Course and a mentoring course, with consolidation of both. We welcome nurses with experience of CVVH, ECMO and neonates.  A full commitment to staff development and supporting others is a requirement, as well as evidence of excellent leadership.

Main duties of the job

  • To work as a Team Leader in the management of a group of patients, demonstrating excellent leadership and team building strategies, managing staffing levels and skill mix for a defined group of patients to meet service demands.
  • To participate in the Performance Management process and personal development planning of staff, in consultation with the manager/Education Team
  • In the care of critically ill children level 2 or 3: To provide 1:2 or 1:3 supervision for supernumerary staff over a span of duty and take responsibility for care delivered, in support of maximising bed availability, staff development and safety.
  • To co-operate fully with development programmes and take responsibility for personal development including mandatory training.
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Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s 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

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Mentors and Assessors course
  • PILS course
  • Critical care course/Working towards critical care course completion (Must be undertaking course at point of application + successful completion at point of commencing in role if successful at interview)
Desirable criteria
  • Hons level Degree
  • EPLS or APLS or willing to complete in first year of post
  • Communication course or Advanced Communication course
  • Leadership Course

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Experience working at a senior Band 5 level
  • Current expert in area of clinical care
Desirable criteria
  • Experience completing an Appraisal
  • Experience leading a team

ANALYTICAL AND JUDGEMENT SKILLS

Essential criteria
  • Able to make time critical decisions under pressure

PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of research process
  • Able to lead a team in a clinical situation
  • Able to communicate effectively in challenging situations
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role
  • Excellent leadership skills
Desirable criteria
  • Able to line manage a team

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lauren Bennett
Job title
Senior Sister
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0121 333 9653
Additional information

Please contact Lauren Bennett or Iffat Chaudhrey for more information 

[email protected]/[email protected]

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