Haemoglobinopathy Network Coordinator

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.

Qualifications

Essential

• Equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.

Desirable

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with senior clinicians in complex clinical environments
• Experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Experience of co-ordinating processes to collect key clinical data
• Knowledge and experience of using IT packages (excel/access) and ability to manipulate data
• Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in clinical environments
• Knowledge of project principles
• Knowledge of project management techniques and tools
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the key principles underlying functional clinical networks and understanding of service specification for SHTs.
• Knowledge of existing clinical networks and policy developments relating to networks
• Experience of working with clinical informatics and IT teams to create clinical databases
• Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at Senior Manager level.
• Demonstrate experience in a Healthcare environment
• Experience of creating and giving presentations to varied groups of internal and external stakeholders

Skills

Essential

• Strong organisational skills
• Able to communicate business sensitive information, agreement or co-operation from NHS staff at all levels in the organisation is required
• Able to work with clinical lead to define policies and governance procedures for a network
• Analysis of business performance information and ability to highlight performance information
• Organising events and workshops including selection of venue, provision of material
• Ability to co-ordinate multi-disciplinary meetings
• Able to maintain and develop relevant filing systems
• Able to analyse complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Able to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
• Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
• Able to manage travel arrangements and meeting expenses for colleagues at BCH and in wider networks
• Able to train other staff in the use of appropriate network databases and systems

Approach/Values

Essential

• Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust
• Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role
• Values and demonstrates excellent team working
• Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required
• Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
• Ability to work without supervision and demonstrate initiative
• Able to make a connection between their work and benefit to patients and the public.
• Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
• Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
• Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
• Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
• Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).