Team Leader - Children's Community Complex Care Team

Team Leader - Children's Community Complex Care Team

The children's continuing care team provides respite in the home and school setting for children with complex needs.

The Long Term Ventilation Team provides packages of care in the home for children who require ventilation to assist their breathing.

Swanbourne Gardens is a 4-bedded respite unit that provides overnight respite for children with complex needs.

As a team, we strive to provide the children we support with a high standard of care.

Main Duties of the Job

As a band 6 team leader working within the team, you would work across the 3 teams at Swanbourne Gardens - our unique 4-bedded respite unit. Alongside this, you may be required to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care in the child and family's own home or in school/nursery. You would be at the forefront of teaching and assessing the competencies required for the staff to deliver day-to-day care for the children with complex health needs. This will include interventions such as care and management of tracheostomies, gastrostomies, and ventilation support. You would be expected to provide supervision and appraisals for the junior staff and ensure all mandatory training is up to date. As a band 6, we expect you to role model the trust's value and behavior framework when working within the team.

About Us

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen.

We believe that the best organizations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

We recognize that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive, and try to work with you to explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics, and more, to make your salary go further.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning, and tips on managing debt.
• Stockport Credit Union - for local financial advice.

Job Responsibilities

To carry out the nursing process for complex children in the community, including assessment, planning, and implementing patient care.

To deputise for the Band 7 Deputy Matron based at Swanbourne Gardens.

To ensure all competencies are up to date for all staff to maintain safe delivery of care.

To complete the rota for staffing and children attending Swanbourne Gardens to ensure all commissioned packages are met.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust's policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively, and sharing information appropriately. If successful, this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary. In addition to this, it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Safeguarding Procedures
• Impact on child and family - disability/complex need
• Awareness of continuing care framework and commissioning

Skills

• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work effectively within the team and autonomously
• Ability to adapt and cope with change with a positive can-do attitude
• Motivated and enthusiastic
• Problem solving / decision maker
• Professional attitude
• Critical analysis skills

Experience

• Relevant clinical experience and knowledge working with children with complex needs
• Supervision of junior staff
• Good organisational and planning skills
• Family-centred approach to care
• Worked within the community setting
• Experience of change management
• Experience of convening and chairing meetings

Qualification

• RSCN/RN Child / LD
• Current NMC Registration
• Teaching and assessing certificate (Mentorship)
• Relevant Post Reg Experience (minimum 1 year)
• Degree/CSP

Work Related Circumstances

• Access to a car
• Hold a full UK Driving License
• Ability to deal with potentially upsetting and distressing situations

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.

£37,338 to £44,962 a year pro rata per annum.