Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site. We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year. As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit. You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including: Great flexible working opportunities Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme Generous annual leave and pension scheme Extensive staff health and well-being programmes Job overview Alder Hey Children’s Hospital (AHCH) is a designated Major Trauma Centre for the North West Region in partnership with The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. Children and young people who sustain major trauma injuries require highly skilled and co-ordinated care from the scene of the accident through to acute care, expert acute rehabilitation and ongoing holistic community rehabilitation. The post holder will be responsible for providing senior professional, operational, and clinical leadership. They will support and co-ordinate the major trauma patient pathway and the role will be integral to the ongoing clinical governance of the major trauma service, contributing to the daily updating of the trauma registry; acting as a key member of the Senior Team leading the process. The post holder will represent the AHCH Major Trauma Service locally and nationally. They will be responsible for ensuring that the Major Trauma Key Indicators are achieved and implementing pathways and procedures to improve the pathway and experiences for children and their families. Advert Communication Planning and Organising Patient Care Policy/Service Development · Financial and Physical Human Resources · Research and Development Working for our organisation Our values: We pride ourselves on the quality of our care, going the extra mile to make Alder hey a safe and special place for children and their families. We are committed to continually improving for the benefit of our patients. We are open and honest and engage everyone we meet with a smile. We show that we value every individual for who they are and their contribution. We work across the Alder Hey community in teams that are built on friendship, dedication, care and reassurance. Detailed job description and main responsibilities Communication · Establish effective multi-professional communication networks and strategies within the Major Trauma Centre and externally with multiagency across health, education, and social care. · Communicate with the trauma lead and lead clinicians to monitor patient progress, ensuring appropriately timed inter hospital transfers as necessary; and monitor length of stay with a view to minimising discharge delays. · Establish robust partnership working relationships in the community/community settings (primary care/schools, community services). · Ensure that the Clinical Lead and Lead Nurse are kept informed of major trauma patient activity and potential problems that have been identified. · Establish excellent communication with wider interdisciplinary team in the Division and wider healthcare community to ensure that services are integrated. · Promote advocacy for children and their families; considering often complex family environments and coping mechanisms; acting on complex, sensitive information. · Overcoming barriers to understanding or resistance to compliance and optimizing participation in rehabilitation goal setting and care decisions. · Ensure effective and seamless communication throughout the patient’s journey including paediatric emergency department, wards, theatres, and critical care staff, to support the admission and planning of care. · Ensure child protection concerns and vulnerabilities within families is documented, communicated, and addressed cohesively. · Establish and maintain effective communication between all members of the interprofessional team. · Participate actively in Major Trauma related committee meetings. · Attend and contribute directly to the weekly individual specialty meetings, Trauma Hospital Overarching Trauma (HOT) meeting, Trauma Rehabilitation MDT/Ward round. · Represent AHCH Major Trauma Centre at local and national meetings. Planning and Organising · Oversee key worker duties to facilitate the patient’s progress on the pathway at all stages of the episodes of care. · Review the planning, workload allocation, delivery and evaluation of rehabilitation programmes for major trauma patients. · Deal promptly and effectively with staffing or other sensitive issues to ensure the smooth transition from one point to another on the trauma pathway. Patient Care · Oversee patients’ physical, cognitive, communication and psychosocial needs are fully addressed by a detailed inter-disciplinary team (IDT) assessment and regular review process. · Understand the full range of support available within the clinical team and how the use of therapies, psychology and education helps patients regain lost skills and reduce dependency in medical, nursing and therapy needs. · Appreciate the changing levels of medical and therapy care and support required by children and young people during the rehabilitation process and ensuring a coordinated and flexible needs-led approach between professional disciplines with regards to timing, intensity and duration of treatment. · Act as a source of expertise in specialist rehabilitation to IDTs in all settings and to other professionals from external agencies. · Facilitate the development of effective care pathways from admission to discharge to ensure the delivery of appropriate, patient focused, safe care. · Provide expertise, supervision and specialist support to others in the delivery of the major trauma pathway and in the management of complex, unpredictable and challenging caseloads. · Ensure all relevant parties in conjunction with the patient and parents/carers are involved at key-decision points during patient’s pathway. · Provide an environment that encourages client centred involvement where clients are facilitated to ask for help, advice and education. · Ensure all clinical practice is evidence based. Policy/Service Development · Contribute to and deliver changes in how trauma care and rehabilitation is delivered across speciality, professional discipline and network boundaries. · As the service develops, have Line Management responsibilities for the Major Trauma Co-ordinators. · Participate in the development of clinical governance systems and structures ensuring service is represented as appropriate. · Utilise relevant data to lead the development and implementation of policies and protocols and clinical practice guidelines and monitor adherence to them. · Contribute to the development of service development strategies, anticipating future needs, to ensure Alder Hey Major Trauma Centre meets its commitments on all service delivery and performance targets. · Challenge existing practices, ensuring that progressive solutions, which take into account models of best practice and best use of resources are incorporated into service plans. · Work with Community, Social Care and Academic partners to ensure that delivery plans support the wider healthcare agenda including improvements in access and equality. · To act as overseer of transition arrangements regarding rehabilitation for young people promoting joined up care. · Work closely with clinical managers, clinicians, and support services to ensure delivery plans are compatible and maximise the opportunities for more efficient ways of working. · Monitor and maintain clinical policies and standard operating procedures in accordance with Trust and national policies, guidelines, protocols, and professional regulations. · Maximise opportunities to share good practices and innovations with colleagues both locally and nationally. · Support the major trauma Clinical Lead to ensure the major trauma centre has clearly defined performance objectives supported by systems and processes which will deliver continuous improvement. · Work with the Clinical Teams to regularly review the effectiveness of care pathways and to identify and rectify any blockages to performance. · Contribute to the major trauma centre’s performance in order to build a sustainable future. · Addresses deficits in service, by identifying potential changes to service, in order to ensure that these deficits are resolved. · Participate in the implementation and delivery of the standards set within the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions’ Strategy. Financial and Physical · Make appropriate use of resources. Human Resources · Provide quality leadership to nursing and non-medical staff within a range of specialties/departments and act as an effective role model. · Deliver specialist teaching programmes for all disciplines and grades of staff, client group and carers within the Trust and community in relation to Major Trauma. · Review and evaluate relevant teaching programmes and contribute to the development of new programmes. · Pursue their own education in line with national agendas, and personal need formulating personal objectives related to service need within personal development plan. · Seek appropriate peer support and clinical supervision. · Provide clinical supervision. · Act as a role model for the Major Trauma Centre and Alder Hey NHS Foundation Trust by adhering to standards of care and behaviour through clinical practice. · Participate in the development of MDT/team objectives for the Major Trauma Service. · Maintain personal standards of conduct and behaviour consistent with Trust and NMC/HCPC/RCOT/CSP guidelines. · Demonstrate the ability to, coordinate, monitor and assess own workload. · Provide clinical support, clinical supervision and undertake PDR with junior members of the team. · Maintain own competency to practice through CPD activities, demonstrating awareness of new trends and developments and their incorporation into practice as necessary. · Maintain professional portfolio to demonstrate competency in line with Trust/Service/Network competency framework. · Comply with their registering bodies regulations relating to their professional registration. · Contribute to the supervisory and peer review process. · Act as a role model at all times. · Have professional accountability. Research and Development · Evaluate clinical practice by contributing to audits of service/role. · Demonstrate knowledge of current research in all aspects of their work and to advise others on the implementation of relevant research findings to practice. · Develop research projects in response to identified needs of the patients/service. · Participate actively in the major trauma centre audit process as required and support the analysis and presentation of the data. · Ensure that opportunities for non-medical research and audit are maximised, to support the improvement of clinical outcomes and patient experience. · Ensure that research and audit activity is conducted in line with Trust standards and that results are shared with other Specialties as appropriate. · Support the Clinical Lead for major trauma in keeping a comprehensive up to date trauma registry. · Undertake regular clinical audits in line with the National Major Trauma Registry (NMTR) and Trust Audit Department. · In line with Caldicott principles and Trust information sharing policies provide clinical feedback to pre-hospital providers and referring hospitals to facilitate their audit and governance procedures. We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted. Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. 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