Band 6 Children\'s Rapid Response Nurse Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The Children’s Rapid Response Service has an exciting opportunity as it continues to expand the team. The Children’s Rapid Response Service works collaboratively with the Community Children’s Nursing & Palliative Care Team. Its primary aim is to prevent and reduce hospital attendances, admissions, and length of stay for children already known to the Community Children’s Nursing & Palliative Team. The emphasis of this service is to improve the quality of life for children and families with complex healthcare needs, offering them greater choice around their chosen place of care.

Are you an enthusiastic, dynamic, flexible, and motivated experienced Nurse or Nurse Practitioner, with a strong knowledge of Children’s Nursing? Clinical expertise and good communication skills are required, as well as excellent time management and prioritisation skills which are essential for this role. If you can provide excellent clinical care and advice to children and families with complex healthcare needs in their own home, please get in touch with the Team Leader – Rebecca Carless on 07784 007 462 or the Clinical Service Manager - Rachael Williams on 07974 785 098.

The service is open from 07:30 – 22:00 across 7 days and there is flexibility to work short shifts or long days. We are looking for experienced children’s nurses with extensive experience in assessment with children with complex healthcare needs. You must have the ability to prioritise your workload using advanced assessment skills, with the ability to provide a symptom management plan of care to children/young people during times of acute deterioration or illness.

The role requires undertaking clinical assessments of a sick child or young person and emergency enteral feeding management to prevent hospital admissions.

• Work in accordance with NMC Code of Professional Practice and Scope of Professional Practice.
• Professionally and legally accountable and responsible for all activities.
• Work within the community (e.g. within client’s own home) as a lone practitioner managing situations of risk with telephone support.
• Provide a calm and supportive approach to the management and delivery of sensitive and complex information, providing both practical and emotional support.
• Use effective communication techniques to communicate with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the child and family referred to Children’s Rapid Response receive the best possible care.
• Undertake risk assessments prior to service delivery within the home setting to ensure staff safety.
• Work in partnership with children, families, and carers to provide optimum individual outcomes acknowledging children and family’s personal preferences.
• Formulate individualised management and treatment plans using sound knowledge and evidence-based practice.
• Provide timely, effective symptom management resulting from comprehensive history taking.
• Provide and promote strategies/detailed plans of care to parents and carers empowering care that will prevent inappropriate admissions.
• Ensure assessment, planning, and delivery of holistic care is of the highest standard.
• Liaise and work in collaboration with acute services, primary healthcare team, and other agencies.
• Advise the Team Leader, Clinical Lead, or Service Manager of any circumstances which give cause for concern in relation to patient care.
• Maintain clear, concise, and contemporaneous records adhering to BCHC record keeping policies.
• Provide a flexible service to accommodate the changing needs of children and families.

• Provide leadership in the absence of the Team Leader/Clinical Lead.
• Responsible for accepting referrals and discharging patients from own caseload.
• Responsible for reassessing children, ensuring regular formal review of the caseload.
• Ensure standards are maintained with both clinical quality and governance.
• Accountable for advice and guidance to patients, families, carers, and other team members.
• Act as an effective role model for other team members, students, and professionals.
• Participate in research and audit relevant to the service.
• Manage service resources in conjunction with the Team Leader/Service Manager.
• Develop policies, procedures, and guidelines in conjunction with the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Ensure staff maintain organisational standards in relation to record keeping.
• Manage informal complaints from service users.
• Demonstrate critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Work positively with colleagues to maintain effective working relationships.
• Accurately record and maintain client records daily.

• Maintain and update knowledge and skills in relation to the post.
• Identify and undertake specific training to maintain skills.
• Participate in the teaching of students and other staff.
• Participate in the teaching and mentorship of staff as required.
• Maintain own professional development in line with post-registration ongoing education and practice.
• Act as a link Nurse and take clinical lead in areas of expertise.
• Participate in reflective practice/clinical supervision.

• Develop and empower all members of your team to perform to high standards.
• Ensure supportive staff management arrangements are in place.
• Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity.
• Develop a culture that ensures standards of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People are achieved.

This advert closes on Friday 3 Jan 2025.