Joint Agency Response Practitioner

22.5 hrs per week

The South West Peninsula Child Death Response and Review Service requires a Specialist Practitioner to join this small nurse-led team.

The successful candidate will work autonomously providing the health component to a multi-agency response to unexpected deaths in childhood.

You will be expected to work collaboratively with police and other partner agencies trying to understand the circumstances of a child's death and use any learning to inform future preventative work.

This sensitive work requires highly developed interpersonal skills and an aptitude to assimilate and analyse information in distressing environments, whilst offering compassionate care and support to the bereaved family. Travel is often at short notice and is throughout the Peninsula with attendance at meetings as required across a large geographical area. You will need to be emotionally resilient as you will be exposed to distressing circumstances.

This statutory service continues to evolve and the successful candidates must be willing to contribute to future service improvement and development initiatives.

There is a requirement to be able to travel across Devon/Cornwall for this position.

Please note Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.

All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7-day service.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a key member of the Child Death Joint Agency Response Team and will lead the health component of the Multi-Agency Response to unexpected child deaths in the Peninsula.

The post holder will have continual responsibility for people using this service; this will encompass assessments of individual circumstances and evaluation of nursing care to a defined group. The post holder will be expected, in collaboration with the family and/or carer, to produce individualised ongoing management plans that will be reviewed regularly and might require periodic adjustments to manage the uncertain and complex nature of child deaths.

Specialist JAR Nurses will be expected to proactively case manage these highly complex and at times risky families with complex needs, to prevent further trauma and expedite support to prevent physical and emotional deterioration and facilitate stability and wellbeing.

The service is a statutory function. You will function as an autonomous specialist, providing leadership, specialist advice and co-ordination to the multi-agency response to sudden unexpected child deaths. A comprehensive knowledge of child health and development is fundamental to the role as well as a working knowledge of the health and social care environment. Collaboration with partner agencies is an integral part of this role.

Job responsibilities

Responsibility for People Management

1. Manage and take continual responsibility for a defined caseload. The caseload will vary in the degree of dependency and/or complexity of needs.
2. To be actively involved with the Peninsula business planning for provision and development of services in respect of management of modifiable and preventable measures relating to child deaths.
3. Responsible for the delegation, management and supervision of workload of other staff within the peninsula joint agency responses.
4. Team lead for line management supervision and appraisals.
5. Responsibility for identifying own training needs and those of the team.
6. To lead on a structured induction and training programme for new members of staff.
7. Contribute to the organisational agenda, influencing policies and leading on service development.
8. Lead on the recruitment process for the team.
9. Completion of off on call rotas.
10. Have ongoing responsibility and duty of care for people using services, staff, self and others in all aspects of Health and Safety and risk.
11. Carry out caseload profiling to identify health needs and dependency of the caseload as requested, to influence future developments of the service.
12. Act as a role model, promoting good performance and practice.
13. Support and guide, teach and assess Student Nurses.
14. Inform Deputy Director of any on-going nursing/management issues affecting patient care or working capacity.
15. To continually review and develop management practices and policies to ensure that services are delivered efficiently and effectively providing best value to people using services and organisations.
16. Arrange, facilitate and lead or chair meetings to ensure collaborative planning and working to fully meet the needs of people using services, relatives and carers.
17. To be responsible for investigating any complaints and untoward incidents.
18. To be the budget holder for the team and act as authorised signatory.
19. Support the Deputy Director in the development, implementation and evaluation of protocols, guidelines, policies, integrated pathways.
20. Promote collaborative practice across organisations and disciplines, where possible integrating working practices, preventing duplication and promoting seamless care in the best interests of the people using services.
21. Support peninsula and locality working.

Responsibility for financial and/or physical resources

Ability to plan and manage resources within allocated budget effectively.

Responsibility for administration

Excellent written and verbal communication.
Excellent organisational skills.
Ability to use IMT support systems, good computer literacy.

Responsibility for people who use our services

1. Work autonomously and unsupervised in the community setting, recognising the risks associated with lone working, e.g., aggressive behaviour, and work proactively to reduce those risks.
2. Work as an autonomous practitioner, managing and prioritising own workload according to local guidelines and identified need. Working in a variety of community settings, exercising a high level of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care.
3. Act as the care coordinator/case manager for an identified caseload of people who have experienced a child death.
4. To plan, implement and evaluate on an ongoing basis, care delivery using evidence based best practice.
5. To be able to identify and resolve complex issues.
6. Provide Expert clinical care and health promotion interventions.
7. Initiate and lead management reviews to aid people using services receive the correct care and support tailored to meet their individual needs.
8. Provide a key link between the Acute Hospitals and Community Services in the management of exacerbations of complex coronial and legal situations.
9. Work with people who use services and carers to understand and act on the early signs of deterioration and facilitate the correct service intervention so that crisis may be avoided.
10. Work with the multi-disciplinary team across health and social care to co-ordinate, develop, implement and evaluate interventions when needed.
11. To improve the families ongoing Self-Management by working with people who use services and carers to formulate and develop their sustainable coping strategies.
12. Proactively link in with, advising and supporting existing child death overview panel, public health, voluntary sectors and safeguarding children's partnerships.

Responsibility for implementation of policy and/or service developments

1. Work within NMC Code of Conduct.
2. Remain updated and ensure that clinical practice is evidence based.
3. Have a personal development plan and professional portfolio.
4. Evaluate the impact training programmes and interventions, for people using services and carers, to ensure that they provide the necessary knowledge and skills to gain independence, safely manage changing circumstances.
5. Be responsible for providing and maintaining a learning environment and maximise opportunities for education and development in the clinical area to enhance individual development and performance in the delivery of high standards of care.
6. Act as expert resource and assist in teaching advanced clinical skills for other health care professionals.
7. Take part in the process of clinical supervision and support clinical supervision for team members.
8. Take responsibility for your own personal and professional development maintain competence, knowledge and skills commensurate with role.
9. To develop, plan, implement and evaluate educational programmes, which may include the publication of articles and educational/support material.
10. To undertake all required training to develop competencies required for the community matron role. Complete community matron competencies.
11. Integrate theory into practice by bringing new knowledge from training into the practice environment.
12. Act as mentor for students and fulfil requirements of a practice placement.
13. Maintain attendance at mandatory and statutory training as per organisation guidelines.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Proven skills in leading, managing and developing teams.
• 3 years experience of managing a team.
• Relevant specialist/clinical experience and competence including:
• Advanced clinical practice.
• Leading complex care co-ordination.
• Proactively manage complex cases.
• Knowledge of managing multifaceted teams.
• Supporting self-care, self-management and sustainable well-being.
• Developing highly specialised programmes of care and support providing advice concerning bereavement.
• Managing support of families and communities after the death of a child.
• Experience of inter-agency and partnership working.
• Experience in challenging clinical practice and leading in the development of new pathways of care and delivering best practice.
• Experience of community working, or an understanding of community working.
• Experience in carrying out clinical audit and risk assessment.

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent competencies in health related subjects.
• Registered Allied Health Professional or Nurse.
• Qualified in:
• Public health.
• Child development.
• Bereavement.
• Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification at degree level or equivalent.
• Leadership/Management qualification or attendance at core management study days.
• Car driver with use of a vehicle for work purposes.

Additional requirements

Essential

• This post predominantly deals with highly charged, emotional and distressing situations relation to the deaths of children throughout the southwest peninsula.

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of service development.
• Understand the principles of governance, particularly in relation to service area.
• Knowledge of Public Health strategies and health promotion techniques.
• Knowledge of CDOP frameworks and strategies.
• Ability to translate best practice evidence and national policy in practice.

Specific Skills

Essential

• Advanced skills and competencies clinical assessment, care coordination, managing bereavement support in line with the Department of Health competency framework.
• Highly specialist clinical and technical skills.
• Strong analytical and judgement skills, with the ability to interpret complex situations and make appropriate decisions.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers and the public.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to plan and manage resources within allocated budget effectively.
• Ability to work autonomously without supervision.
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment.
• Self-confidence to challenge traditional practice and the persistence to address difficult enduring issues.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Ability to use IMT support systems, good computer literacy.

Employer details

Employer name

Livewell Southwest

Address

200 Mount Gould Road
Mount Gould
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 7PY

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