Integrated Care Team Leader (Pod Lead) at Derian House Children's Hospice, leading a pod of colleagues and the babies, children and young people in its care. The post covers caseload oversight, care planning, staff performance and wellbeing, and covering the Nurse in Charge role across the hospice when rostered. It is full-time at 37.5 hours a week, with weekend, night and evening work required. Current NMC registration and substantial experience with complex needs are essential.
What the job involves
- Provide visible clinical and operational leadership to an allocated pod of colleagues and BCYP
- Oversee the pod's caseload, care planning, performance, competence and wellbeing
- Act as Nurse in Charge when rostered, coordinating safe care across the hospice
- Lead caseload reviews and family contact with multidisciplinary colleagues, recording decisions and actions
- Maintain oversight of changes in BCYP needs and keep care plans current and accessible
- Recognise and respond to deterioration and emergencies, escalating as needed
- Delegate safely to colleagues and supervise their practice
- Manage performance, development, appraisal and conduct concerns under DH policy
- Promote compliance with the NMC Code, CQC regulations, safeguarding and governance
- Manage incidents, complaints and clinical risks, including duty of candour
- Lead or support audit and improvement using pod indicators and data
- Build relationships with BCYP and families and work with health, education and social care partners
What’s required
Qualifications
- Post-registration study or equivalent experience in paediatric, complex, palliative or end of life care
Registration & licences
- Current NMC registration with evidence of revalidation and CPD
Experience
- Substantial post-registration experience with BCYP who have complex health needs
- Recognising deterioration and responding to clinical emergencies
- Multidisciplinary and multi-agency care coordination
- Leading a shift, team or defined area, including performance and conduct concerns
- Incident reporting, risk assessment, audit and improvementAssessing, planning, delivering and evaluating person-centred care
Skills & knowledge
- Prioritising competing clinical, people and operational demands, with accurate electronic records
- Highly developed communication, including sensitive communication with BCYP and families in distressing circumstances
- Managing conflict, challenging respectfully and escalating unresolved concerns
- Setting expectations, delegating safely, supervising practice and confirming outcomes
- Working knowledge of NMC Code, safeguarding, duty of candour, consent, capacity, information governance and CQC requirements
- Using evidence and data to identify risk and improvement, with understanding of human factors and a psychologically safe culture
Other
- Evidence of compassionate, inclusive, civil and visible leadership
- Building effective relationships across professional and organisational boundaries
Nice to have
- Electronic rostering, dashboards, audit tools or digital improvement experience
- Quality improvement, clinical governance, patient safety or systems-based incident review training or experience, and evaluating the impact of change
- Degree or postgraduate study relevant to clinical practice, leadership or palliative care
- Practice assessor, clinical supervision, coaching or appraisal qualification
- Recognised leadership or management development
- Children's hospice or specialist palliative care experience
- Long-term ventilation, tracheostomy, enteral feeding, syringe pump or other complex care experience
- Formal line management; recruitment, attendance or workforce planning; implementing a new model of care or service change
What’s offered
- 35 days' holiday a year including bank holidays, rising with length of service
- Continuation of NHS Pension (if eligible) or Derian House Contributory Pension Scheme
- Retail discounts through Blue Light card and benefits platform
- Free onsite parking
- Subsidised meals in the hospice diner
- Shift enhancements for weekend, night and bank holiday shifts
- Payment of NMC registration fees
- In-house clinical education team and clinical skills lab
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
