Employer Whittington Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Whittington Town London Salary £51,883 - £58,544 pro-rata per annum inclusive of HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 18/06/2025 23:59
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Job overview
Be responsible for personal and professional development of all staff and learners within acute paediatrics within collaboration with the ward manager and Matron.
Facilitate practice learning to the highest quality through teaching, assessing, evaluation administration and practice-based work whilst supporting the Trusts Clinical Governance agenda.
Work as a change agent within the Trust wide multidisciplinary team in taking forward and shaping the future of nursing practice in the light of the local, national and professional agenda.
The post holder will be required to work clinically directly with staff.
Main duties of the job
* Education and Staff Support
* To Identify the learning needs of staff and undertake training needs analysis.
* Maintain data base of all training undertaken by staff within acute Paediatrics.
* Assist staff in completing their appraisals
* Develop, implement, deliver and evaluate development programmes for all nursing staff members,
* Facilitate the running and advertising the running of external and internal study days.
* Facilitate and encourage personal and professional development of staff within the clinical area.
* Develop orientation plans for newly qualified staff members
* Promote a positive learning environment and actively encourage innovation in clinical practice.
* Work clinically with staff.
* Develop assessment tools and assist staff in the assessment of clinical competencies.
* Propose changes to policies within own area but also Trust wide clinical and educational policies.
* Facilitate Staff Nurse and Health Care Assistant Development programmes.
* Facilitate Trust mandatory training and e-learning.
* Responsible for training staff in the use of medical device and ensuring passports are up to date.
* Ensure students are allocated students have allocated mentors and receive the support from their mentors whilst on placement.
Working for our organisation
* Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To ensure an effective learning environment for staff, students and parents by maintaining access to a range of learning resources and acting as facilitator in the supervision and teaching of staff.
* Ensure that staff are educated in new skills and procedures. Appropriately developed in line with the NMC to meet service needs. Ensure staff are aware of revalidation and assist staff to ensure this is completed.
* To participate in induction, preceptor and mentor programmes for learners and junior medical and nursing staff.
* Act as a role model for all staff
* To ensure robust standards and frameworks are in place, in line with current recommendations, to ensure children receive high quality family centred care at all times.
* To provide clinical leadership for paediatric nursing staff.
* To ensure effective use of resources within the delegated budget.
* To participate in the induction process for staff.
* To agree and review service objectives and development plans.
* With training, be competent in the use of computerised systems employed in the hospital and community.
* Be proactive in minimising complaints seeking to provide local resolution wherever possible. Liaise with Nursing Management to investigate and respond to complaints. Help to develop strategies to prevent recurrence.
Person specification
Experience
* Recent experience at band 6 within an acute clinical setting supporting ward manager.
* Experience of managing staff
* Experience in managing performance and development through the appraisal, PDR and relevant policy.
* Experience of teaching both qualified and unqualified staff and of staff supervision with NMC mentorship.
* Demonstrate excellent clinical knowledge of nursing assessment and treatment of critically ill children
* Clinical leadership skills
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Ability to use audit to improve the quality of the service and patient care. Knowledge of: quality, standard setting and benchmarking.
* The ability to lead on development and review of policies and procedures relevant to nursing and health and safety on the unit.
* Ability to co-ordinate the staffing rota for the unit
Skills
* Experience of leadership within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
* Experience of developing and implementing new policies and guidance
* Ability to use audit to improve the quality of the service and patient care. Knowledge of: quality, standard setting and benchmarking.
* Ability to use a computer for word processing, e-mail and internet access
* Change management
* Extensive experience within speciality
* Current issues in healthcare/specialty
* Demonstrate advanced clinical expertise
* Evidence of involvement with patient/user groups to develop patient centred care
Knowledge
* Demonstrate excellent clinical knowledge of nursing assessment and treatment of critically ill children
* Understanding of the Essence of Care standards and benchmarking process
* Familiarity with NMC guidelines
* Knowledge of the national policy context for delivery of health care.
* Understanding of responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act, and of risk management.
* Understanding of effective discharge planning and the nursing role in this.
Qualifications
* RN (Child)
* Evidence of further professional and managerial training.
* Post basic qualification in relevant area that has enhanced clinical practice
* Degree/equivalent in relevant subject or working towards
* APLS, PILS, EPALS
* Recognised Mentorship qualification
* High Dependency Nursing Course
* MSc level of study in paediatric physical assessment
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
* Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
* Ensure you are familiar and comply with theLondon Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
* Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
* Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
* Participate in required training and supervision.
* Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form –
* Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
* Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes –
* Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
* If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunatelythis means you have not been successfullyshortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
* Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
* Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information –
* Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you areeligible under theUKVI points based system .
* Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
* In submitting an application form, you authorise WhittingtonHealth NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
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We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation
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Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
Name Mary Sellings Job title Paediatric Matron Email address mary.sellings@nhs.net Telephone number 0207 2885405
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