Band 6 Children's Complex Care Nurse Educator

Wales Medicines Strategy Group; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000

Job description

Employer Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Lansdowne Health Centre

Town Birmingham

Salary £37,338 - £44,962

Salary period Yearly

Closing 03/04/2025 23:59

Band 6 Children's Complex Care Nurse Educator

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

A new opportunity has arisen to support the clinical leadership and training of the Children’s Complex Care team in Birmingham and to ensure the highest level of nursing care is delivered to some of our most vulnerable children.

The successful applicant will need to be able to deliver evidenced based clinical training and support to a large team of Health Care Assistants within a Competency Based Framework.

If you have a passion for working with children with long term conditions within the community and have experience of teaching and assessing in clinical practice and are ready for your next challenge, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The team works as part of a multi-disciplinary system supporting children and families to live as independently as possible away from hospital. There will be an expectation to undertake training and competency testing of Health Care Assistants, to organise and participate in clinical skills days, to oversee staff mandatory training, to undertake audit, to work with other educational teams across Children & Families division.

Person specification

Qualification and Training

• Registered first level Children’s Nurse or RSCN who holds effective registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Recognised teaching qualification e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent

Experience

• Substantial post qualification experience across a range of children’s nursing
• Experience in long term ventilation
• Ability to demonstrate relevant effective learning from this experience
• Experience of supervising staff

Skills/Knowledge

• Must demonstrate a wide range of clinical skills.
• Competent in developing training packages and deliver formal training to groups and individuals
• Ability to communicate/liaise effectively with professionals in all relevant agencies and at all levels
• Demonstrate ability to work effectively to deliver training with a range of professionals with specialist knowledge

Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme

BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC are an advocate of diversity and strive to mirror the community we serve as much possible. We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.

Flexible Working

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.

In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!

Benefits of working for us:

• Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
• Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
• Discounts for local and national retailers
• Dedicated well-being services for all employees
• Flexible working where possible

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Application numbers

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***