Clinical Nurse Specialist in Neurosciences

Clinical Nurse Specialist in Neurosciences

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder is responsible for working in an interdisciplinary manner to provide effective care for children/adolescents with Craniofacial conditions and Neurosurgical conditions through the role of expert practitioner, role model and patient/parent advocate. Provide specialist knowledge to statutory and charitable organisations locally and nationally.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist clinical nursing expertise to support the delivery of safe and effective treatmentof care for babies, children and young people.

Plan and organise specialist nursing workload in accordance to agreed local protocols, or as directed by the Senior Nurse Specialists or Consultants.

Undertake specialist clinical assessments and clinical interventions that are aligned to agreed protocols for babies, children and young people with neurosurgical/craniofacial conditions.

Develop and implement programmes of care and provide specialised advice for babies, children, young people and families.

Within agreed protocols - analyse complex facts, situations or investigation results and then take appropriate clinical decisions.

Work in collaboration with the Consultant and Registrar teams regarding highly complex patient management treatment planning and decision making.

Please see attached Job Description for full details.

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About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

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Person Specification

Qualifications and Registrations

• RSCN/RN Child Branch
• Minimum of 2 years' experience within a relevant pediatric sub-specialty within Neurosciences
• Independent Non-Medical Prescribing Course

Knowledge & Nature of Experience

• Current clinical skills within a relevant Paediatric setting
• Evidence of multidisciplinary team working
• Good understanding of the management of safeguarding children issues
• Extensive experience of delivering interventions to families within Neurosciences
• Ability to recognise the seriously ill children, and take appropriate escalation actions
• Evidence of audit or research projects

Analytical and judgement skills

• Ability to make autonomous clinical decisions with prescribed professional boundaries
• Demonstrate excellent clinical competence in the care of paediatric neurosurgical/craniofacial patients.
• Evidence of managing specialised data collection and associated IT skills
• Demonstrate an awareness of local and national performance targets concerning patients.
• Evidence of delivering formal and informal teaching
• Able to distil essential clinical information and accurately message to range of professionals of all disciplines

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

• Flexibility to support staff and service requirements
• Ability to input patient's data analyses and evaluate their care and treatment
• Use of clinical systems and databases
• Competent in trust safeguarding policies and procedures
• Ability to manage own caseload and that of others within the team

Personal skills / Abilities and Attributes

• Evidence of good attendance
• Ability to promote professional nursing image and act as a positive role model
• Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the trust
• Effective team working and interpersonal skills
• Punctual and flexible across service
• Committed and enthusiastic about specialties
• Organisation and time management
• Evidence of excellent communication skills at all levels with ability to challenge views of multidisciplinary team and present specialist information
• Excellent diplomacy and interpersonal skills
• Evidence of sound decision making and organisational skills, particularly in emergency/stressful 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.

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