Job summary
Employer heading
Band 4 Children's Complex Care Registered Nurse Associate (RNA)
Band 4
Job overview
We are looking to employ three Band 4 Registered Nurse Associates in our Children’s Complex Care Service, working in a service that covers 24 hours days a week- 7 days a week
The post requires the post holder to work days, weekends, nights and Bank Holidays on a rota basis- This may include long days
The Service provides care in the home and school to ensure children with complex care needs are met
These posts are citywide and staff can expect to be moved to different areas to gain a wealth of knowledge and experience in supporting Children, Young People and Families.
You will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team that includes Community Paediatricians, Paediatric & Learning Disability Nurses, Speech and Language, Physiotherapists, Education Staff and Disabled Children’s Social Care.
You will be required to either be a car driver or be able to evidence how you can travel across the city as you may be assigned to several care packages in one day to attend and support staff.
Main duties of the job
You will support families in the Home or at School to ensure health needs are met and Child, Young Person & Family are supported through Early Help, Education & Healthcare Plans, SEND. You will be responsible for the holistic, comprehensive assessment of more complex community patients, delivering clinical care and contributing to the evaluation of person centred care plans.
You will be required to support staff in the service
The role requires excellent communication skills, IT skills, and the ability to be adaptable, reliable and highly organised and to prioritise your workload effectively.
Experience of care in a community setting would be an advantage but not essential. You must be able to travel around the city during the working day.
You must be a registered Nursing Associate registered with the NMC – or in the process of registering.
You will have access to ongoing training and development, annual appraisals and clinical supervision.
Working for our organisation
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details on what this job involves, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register.
- Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification
- GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or functional skills level 2 Maths & English or equivalent.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- • Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate.
- • Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information.
Desirable criteria
- • Relevant experience of working with children with complex health needs and or disabilities.
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation, and how the role may contribute to service development.
- • Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice contained within The Code.
- • Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice.
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- • Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities.
- • Ability to organise and prioritise own delegated workload.
- • Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and nonverbal) with children/YP, parent/carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Other job requirements
Essential criteria
- Willing and able to undertake training appropriate to the role.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sylvia Ofiaeli
- Job title
- Team Leader, Children's Complex Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07933 386412
- Additional information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Sylvia Ofiaeli , Children's Complex Care Team Leader
Telephone: 07955 433899 or 0121 245 5779
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