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Job summary

Main area
Emergency Department
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 18 hours per week
Job ref
180-C-245550
Employer
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Addenbrookes Hospital-Division C
Town
Cambridge
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 p.a. pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/01/2025 23:59

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Network Coordination Service Support Coordinator - Emergency Department

Band 6

Job overview

Addenbrookes major trauma centre is looking for a part time Support Co-ordinator to work in our Major Trauma Network Co-ordination Service (NCS).  The service is a dynamic, friendly team of professionals who strive to ensure the best care for patients affected by major trauma. 

Main duties of the job

Based within the emergency department at Addenbrookes, you will work closely with the lead NCS consultant ensuring that clinical information from patient records for major trauma patients is extracted, interpreted and submitted in line with the requirements for national audit and benchmarking as well as local guidelines. The post holder will need to have flexible skills and be able to support the wider clinical and managerial team with administration tasks. Some working from home can be considered after initial training and proven competency has been demonstrated.

Working for our organisation

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
-    applied for a Graduate visa
-    or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
-    or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment

This vacancy will close at midnight on 2nd January 2025

Interviews are due to be held on 14th January 2025

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of continuing professional development and its application
  • First Degree
Desirable criteria
  • Current registration with NMC (on part one or two of the register) or HCPC
  • Teaching and assessing qualification
  • Other post-basic, health-related courses
  • Masters degree

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Proven clinical practice in emergency and primary/prehospital care
  • Experience of utilising reflective practice
  • Relevant post registration experience
  • Significant experience at Band 6
  • Pathway and service development
Desirable criteria
  • Clinical supervision or Action Learning

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Professional codes of conduct/practice
  • Good working knowledge of risk management
  • Quality issues and Clinical Governance
  • Professional
  • Role model
  • Audit involvement
  • Change management skills
  • Sound knowledge base of Emergency Care and all related initiatives
Desirable criteria
  • Good understanding of national issues in urgent and emergency care

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Self motivated
  • Strong leadership qualities
  • Time management
  • Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload
  • Resource Management
  • Teaching
  • Able to influence
  • Able to challenge effectively
  • Able to remain calm and work effectively in pressured situations
  • Willingness to adapt to change as the organisation develops
  • Ability to provide leadership in order to affect change
Desirable criteria
  • Scope of practice skills

Additional Requirements

Essential criteria
  • The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDVeteran AwareNo smoking policyArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Age-Friendly Employer PledgeCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.We offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.NHS Rainbow badgeTime to changeDisability confident committedStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthApprenticeships Top 100 Employers 2024

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Vicky Barnes
Job title
Deputy Operations Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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