Band 6 EHC Assessment Nurse

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking an innovative nurse to join their dynamic Neurodevelopmental Team in Birmingham. This role offers the chance to work with children facing neurodevelopmental challenges, providing holistic assessments and tailored care plans. You'll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, ensuring that every child receives the best possible support in their community. If you're passionate about making a difference and thrive in a supportive environment, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to reducing health inequalities and enhancing community health.

Benefits

Full NHS terms and conditions

Extensive holidays

Attractive relocation payment

Discounts for local and national retailers

Dedicated well-being services

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience working with children with SEND in a community setting.
• Ability to manage a team and provide leadership.

Responsibilities

• Conduct holistic assessments and develop care programs for children.
• Provide leadership and training for junior staff.

Skills

Holistic client-centered practice

Clinical and caseload management

Communication skills

Team working

Assessment skills

Education

RSCN/RN Child Branch

SCPHN

Job description

HoursFull time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday hours negotiable might consider part time.)Job ref820-7009193-CFEmployerBirmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustEmployer typeNHSSiteBirmingham Community Healthcare - CitywideTownHandsworthSalary£37,338 - £44,962 paSalary periodYearlyClosing

Employer heading

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

Are you an innovative nurse, excited about a new way of working within the NHS? Or interested in Neurodevelopmental Conditions and looking for a new challenge?

Are you passionate about working with children?

Do you enjoy the prospect of working in a specialised environment?

Do you want the opportunity to be part of a friendly and supportive Multidisciplinary Team?

Do you want to work in a vibrant city with a range of multicultural communities and be part of an inclusive Trust which is keen to reduce health inequalities?

If you are looking for an exciting role, we want to meet you!

Come and join us to work within a fast developing, dynamic and pioneering Neurodevelopmental (ND) Team across the city of Birmingham, working alongside a range of professionals, including children’s therapy, clinical psychology and medical colleagues, education and local authority partners.

We are looking for highly motivated and committed nurses with skills in holistic, client-centred practice, for a post at Band 6.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will be offering, evaluating and developing, assessment and support of children with neurodevelopmental difficulties and profound and multiple difficulties in a multi-disciplinary team. You will offer support to more junior team members and students. You will be trained to use a wide range of standardised assessments as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.

You will have strong clinical and caseload management skills and a passion for working with children with SEND. You will have proven experience of successfully working with a range of clients, their families and others in order for the child to achieve meaningful outcomes. You will have excellent communication and team working skills. You will be willing to work in a full range of locations across the city of Birmingham, including child development centres, education settings and family homes, as well as undertaking some assessments virtually.

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder carries ongoing responsibility for holistic assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for a caseload delegated by the service. Proactively participate in the development of the service and manage own caseload. To work in conjunction with the Consultant Community Paediatricians and Neurodevelopmental Pathway Multi-Disciplinary Teams to support parents and carers of children with special educational needs and neurodevelopmental conditions, to facilitate ensuring a holistic assessment of their care needs are undertaken and contribute to facilitating coordinated care across heatlhcare and educational settings according to agreed packages of care and pathways.

The post holder will work autonomously and act independently working within BCHC Policy, procedures and guidelines.

To use highly developed negotiation and interpersonal skills when working with professionals, children and young people within a community environment

To work with the service leads to develop packages of care and pathways

To contribute to the development of the relevant Team.

Responsible for:

Management Responsibilities

To provide operational leadership in the absence of the line manager and actively participate and facilitate clinical supervision.

Provide leadership, training and supervision for junior nurses and healthcare staff e.g Band 5 nurses and healthcare assistants.

Financial Responsibilities

Main Duties

Work in accordance with NMC Code of Professional Practice and Scope of Professional Practice. Professionally and legally accountable and responsible for nursing practice and all activities.

To undertake video/Face-face clinics to perform health screening interviews with children and young people and their parents or carers to provide Health Advice Reports to the Local Authority for children and young people undergoing EHC needs assessment.

To participate in Quality Assurance activity pertaining to EHC Health advice.

Training of other staff involved in writing health advice for EHC needs assessment

To write reports containing highly complex, confidential and sensitive information which may be used in a legal context.

Provide comprehensive evidenced based and skilled nursing care to children within their own home and/or other community settings.

Ensure assessment, planning and delivery of holistic care is of the highest standard utilising an agreed nursing model.

Liaise and work in collaboration with acute services, primary healthcare team and other agencies when planning and implementing programmes of care.

Provide health education information to the child/young person, family and carers to promote a health lifestyle through health promotion activities as required.

Advise the Line Manager, Service Clinical Manager or Service Manger of any circumstances which give cause for concern in relation to patient care and/or any concerns raised by the primary healthcare team or partner agencies.

Obtain informed consent from children, parents and carers prior to undertaking care.

Maintain clear, concise and contemporaneous records adhering to BCHC record keeping policies.

Provide a flexible service to accommodate the working environment.

Ensure standards are maintained with both clinical quality and governance being central to the function and delivery of the service.

Accountable for advice and guidance to patients, families, carers and other team members.

Act as an effective role model for other team members, students and professionals.

Provide leadership, training and supervision for junior nurses and healthcare staff e.g Band 5 nurses and healthcare assistants.

Responsible for overseeing the reassessment of children, ensuring regular formal review of the caseload in conjunction with the Line Manager, ensuring these are documented and evidenced as per record keeping guidelines.

Participate in research and audit relevant to the service in conjunction with the Line Manager/Service Clinical Manager.

Appropriately manage the service resources e.g. equipment, staffing, supplies in conjunction with the Line Manager/Service Manager.

Participate in clinical supervision with team members.

Develop policies, procedures and guidelines in conjunction with the wider multidisciplinary team.

Responsible for ensuring effective team working.

Ensure effective communication to line manager relating any circumstances which give rise for concern.

Manage informal complaints from service users raising any recurrent themes or concerns with the Service Clinical Manager and Service Manager and assist with formal investigations as requested.

Recognise situations which may be detrimental to a child’s wellbeing and deal with individual situations according to organisational and local agency policies, for example, child protection issues, e.g. initiation of CASS referral to Children’s services.

Review, discuss and facilitate fulfilment of Advance Care Plans for children and families with life limiting/threatening conditions.

To use highly developed communication skills to explain complex information from clinical assessment and therapy outcomes to clients, carers and multidisciplinary team members.

To undertake holistic assessment of specialist and diverse cases with access to supervision for highly complex cases.

To record and maintain up-to-date clinical case notes in line with professional standards and Trust, professional and departmental policies.

To complete timely, accurate written and electronic records of patient’s care, maintaining service standards and following departmental clinical record keeping guidelines. The post holder will also be required to input activity into the IT system.

To share specialist knowledge with colleagues at a local level including offering additional specialist experience and providing observation sessions for others.

To access multi-professional team for support, such as second opinions for highly complex cases as necessary.

To contribute to evaluating and updating packages of care and pathways used within the Service.

To Identify and access appropriate Continuous Professional Development at least to a level to meet Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and Health and Care Professions Council requirements and to practice reflective learning.

To use keyboard skills to produce customised treatment plans and materials and effectively manage mobile device to access client records, emails and other aspects of electronic communication.

To manage infection control risks including those from bodily fluids.

To undertake reviews of evidence to underpin current practice.

Undertake other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager.

Management and Leadership Responsibilities:

Develop and empower all members of your team to perform to high standards and innovate.

Develop a culture that ensures that the standards of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People are achieved and maintained for all staff and that staff’s perception about their working lives are measured and improvements made.

Ensure supportive staff management arrangements are in place and carry out personal development reviews for direct reports. Ensure all staff in your team/s have annual PDR’s resulting in specific objectives and effective personal development plans in line with the Knowledge and Skills Outline Framework.

Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity and address inequalities both in employment and service delivery. Ensure specific equality objectives are included in PDR’s.

To support and facilitate the safe allocation of care to children and young people in the community setting considering the clinical prioritisation matrix and clinical formulary.

Person specification

Qualifications

RSCN/RN Child Branch, Learning Disabilities, or Adult with Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN)

Desirable criteria

ENB 998 (Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice) or equivalent Community Children’s Nursing qualification or equivalent Independent supplementary prescriber or equivalent

Experience

Significant experience of working with children and young people in the community setting with a variety of health needs, in particular SEND

Skills and Knowledge

Ability to manage team on a day to day basis in the absence of the Line Manager Demonstrate knowledge relating to child protection issues and procedures Evidence of assessment skills and use of nursing process and nurse models Demonstrate sound use and application of NMC Code of Conduct and scope of professional care

Demonstrate knowledge and application of current clinical trends and practices inclusive of evidence based practice in relation to Children’s Community Nursing Ability to teach relatives, patients, clients and staff across all areas of self care and appropriate nursing practice Demonstrate knowledge of standard setting and audit processes Ability to demonstrate written skills that are concise, accurate, relevant and legible.

Awareness of diversity of the needs of families in relation to culture and religion Excellent communication skills Provide evidence of time and resource management Experience of working with the MDT

Desirable criteria

Demonstrate knowledge of current legislative changes affecting NHS and Social Services particularly those affecting community care

Personal Qualities

Ability to demonstrate a commitment to team working Demonstrate ability to be flexible and participate in an NHS change environment Ability to learn and apply knowledge appropriately Positive attitude to the development of services within the Neurodevelopmental Pathway

Other Requirements

Independently mobile and able to travel to sites across the city

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.

Promoting Workforce Equality

In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.

The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.

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!

Using Artificial Intelligence

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust acknowledges Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini etc; are powerful tools that can help you in various stages of your job application and how they can be used in certain circumstances during your application process with BCHC. You can read more about acceptable use on our internet pages here

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

Applicant requirements

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

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