Paediatric Clinical Learning Lead - Emergency Department

NHS; Warwick; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Paediatric Clinical Learning Lead - Emergency Department

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

South Warwickshire NHS University Foundation Trust's Emergency Department is excited to offer a new opportunity to an experienced Registered Children's Nurse with a keen interest in supporting learners in practice.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic Paediatric Clinical Sister / Charge Nurse to support the development of staff within the Emergency Department as a Clinical Learning Lead.

The role will offer the opportunity to benefit from protected time to ensure training and supervision can be delivered and supported ensuring we provide outstanding clinical practice for children and young people within our department. You will support the development of skills and competencies of registered and non-registered staff within the department.

This will involve assessment, supervision, feedback and work allocation. Working collaboratively with internal and external teams within the trust, your role will have the responsibility for ensuring the area is a positive learning environment and that each learner is assessed and supported within that area to achieve all learning outcomes.

This is a new and exciting post which will ensure an effective learning environment in our department to grow a highly skilled, competent, supported and caring workforce for the future.

Main duties of the job

1. To work within and ensure continued development of an environment conducive to learning, integrating evidence-based theory & practice within the department.
2. To provide clinical leadership and establish high quality learning environments through teaching and assessment, supporting all new starters and learners within the department.
3. To provide teaching and support to all staff who are supervising and assessing all new starters and learners.
4. To work closely with the practice development team, the apprenticeship team and the learning and development department to support a coordinated approach to education, training and professional development.
5. To support staff in the development of competence and confidence in the delivery of high standards of care whilst being responsive to the needs of patients, relatives and carers as well as service demands.
6. To manage time effectively between clinical and educational responsibilities in the ward ensuring a 50/50 split.

About us

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition, our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Job responsibilities

Organisational:

1. Ensure all Trust wide and departmental processes, protocols and procedures are understood and adhered to by all staff.
2. Ensure strategies are in place to enable the A&E performance targets to be met; escalating, as per the Escalation Policy, to the appropriate level when needed. Completing breach analysis during each shift.
3. Manage staff sickness ensuring that the department has minimum safe staffing levels; escalation to Clinical Nursing Lead if appropriate cover is not maintained.
4. Assist in the investigation of complaints/clinical incidents as necessary.
5. Foster good working relationships with other paediatric wards and departments within the Trust.
6. Supervise junior staff through a shift, prioritising and delegating as appropriate.
7. Manage all resources to the maximum benefit of patients and the service, being aware of resource implications specific to the department.
8. Promote effective communication within the nursing team, to patients and carers, visitors, members of the multi-disciplinary team and external agencies, receive and report sensitive information.
9. Participate in the setting, implementing and monitoring of organisation and local objectives.
10. Promote, and participate in, collaborative working relationships with the multi-disciplinary team.
11. Act as a positive role model for other staff.
12. Act as an advocate for patients.
13. Utilise clinical and risk assessment skills to maintain a safe environment.

Clinical:

1. To be competent to assess, plan, delivery and manage episodes of care, participating in all aspects of care from arrival through to discharge/admission/transfer.
2. To be an effective practitioner and demonstrate the ability to deliver a high standard of patient care.
3. Organise the method of care delivery within a clinical area; prioritising, allocating and delegating effectively.
4. To identify and act upon situations which may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of patients.
5. Liaise with other agencies and professionals to ensure effective patient management and care.
6. Support and guide junior staff in delivering high standards of nursing care.
7. Monitor, maintain and review regularly standards of care in conjunction with other members of the multi-disciplinary and safeguarding teams.
8. Maximise opportunities for health promotion and health education.
9. Act as a resource person to others, providing information to junior staff, multidisciplinary team members, patients, and relatives.
10. Initiate and take part in clinical audit.
11. Keep abreast of new developments in paediatric nursing, and specialty specific information.
12. Be competent in appropriate areas of role expansion, and support this development in others.
13. Be professionally accountable for own actions during working shift.
14. Promote and comply with all NMC professional standards.

Professional:

1. Take responsibility for own personal and professional development, maintaining clinical credibility and competence at all times.
2. To provide leadership and support to all staff, ensuring clinical practice is up to date and evidence based.
3. Have effective communication skills at all levels.
4. Early informal management of complaints with the aim of satisfactory resolution. Ensure appropriate escalation when this is not achieved.
5. To abide by Infection Prevention and Control policies relevant to your area of work, and undertake the necessary level of training. This will be appraised through the KSF review process or other relevant professional review process.
6. To accept responsibility for the provision of effective prevention and control within the Trust in liaison with the Trust's Infection Control Team.
7. To act as a role model in applying good infection control practice and ensures compliance with all infection control policies.

Strategic and Service Responsibility:

1. In all aspects of work demonstrate an ability to work across organizational and professional boundaries, ensuring high quality of care.
2. Promote collaborative working relationships and effective communication between all members of the multidisciplinary team.
3. Actively seek to improve and develop the emergency care process.

Governance:

1. To assist in the development of relevant standards, protocols and procedures in conjunction with the multi-professional team, ensuring that clinical practices are evidenced based and benchmarked against best practice.
2. Ensure compliance with all Trust policies and procedures at all times.
3. To assist in the investigation and take corrective action relating to untoward incidents, accidents and complaints in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
4. Be aware of child protection guidelines together with strategies to safeguard vulnerable children. Seek guidance and support from senior staff where necessary.
5. Maintain awareness of current nursing practice/research with particular reference to own working area, evaluating and disseminating findings.
6. To support and participate in departmental clinical research activities, and assist in the implementation of any appropriate research findings.

Health & Safety:

1. Assess and monitor risk in own other practices/settings. Act on the findings, thereby ensuring safe delivery of care.
2. In accordance with the Health and Safety at work act comply with the Trusts Health and Safety policies and procedures.
3. To take all reasonable steps to prevent injury to yourself, fellow employees and others affected by your actions or omissions at work.
4. Be responsible for reporting any defects relating to departmental equipment and any hazardous or potentially hazardous areas of work.
5. To ensure accurate completion of clinical incident forms in accordance with Trust Policy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RCN, Current NMC registration
• Diploma/Degree in Nursing
• Recognised Teaching and Assessing qualification
• PILS
• EPALS

Experience

• Post registration band 5 paediatric experience
• Experience in working to achieve the National Performance Targets
• Evidence of personal and professional development in the last 12 months
• Experience of coordinating a Paediatric A&E department and managing Paediatric resus

Skills

• High standard of clinical nursing skills: Triage, Cannulation, Venepuncture, IV drug administration, ECG recording
• Sound knowledge of evidence-based practice
• Managing patient flows in response to Emergency Care Targets
• Ability to calculate paediatric drug dosages
• Knowledge of change management
• Knowledge of specialty
• Knowledge of NHS priorities
• Competence in extended roles: Wound Care, Suturing, Nurse Requested X-ray
• Experience of using PGD's
• Involvement of Clinical Audit
• Teaching Skills

Personal Qualities

• Leadership abilities
• Organisational skills
• Ability to support and guide others
• Ability to prioritise
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to deal with and diffuse conflict situations
• Commitment to personal and professional development
• Commitment to development of others.
• Ability to work within a high turnover/pressurised environment on a daily basis
• Flexible and responsive to change

Other job Requirements

• Flexible and adaptable

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust