Job summary
The department of Blood, Stem Cell and Cancer is looking for a Haemoglobinopathy Clinical Network Coordinator to work at Birmingham Children's Hospital. The post is full-time, and the post holder will be based on site in the Multidisciplinary Team office on Outpatients 2, Waterfall House providing essential support to the specialist Haemoglobinopathy team, whilst also working with the local/regional paediatric centres.
The post holder will be working alongside the Network Manager and colleagues from across the Midlands, Specialised commissioning, and other provider units to further define the regional service development plan - to help deliver the actions, milestones, and objectives for the Haemoglobinopathy network.
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who relishes a challenge and is keen to use their own initiative, whilst working in an extremely busy department. This role is very demanding, and applicants will be self-motivated and have strong organisational and analytical skills. You must enjoy working within a busy clinical setting and have the ability to analyse business performance information, work critically with specification documents and highlight any performance issues to a wide variety of audiences in a timely and appropriate manner.
This role includes regional travel.
Main duties of the job
The challenge is to deliver a network that is sustainable with a clear governance structure and service development plan; along with supporting key initiatives within the network specifically around areas within Haemoglobinopathy.
To work with the Network Manager to support, coordinate and develop the Clinical Networks to achieve key development objectives
To work with clinical leads and Network Manager to define development plans, and outline key objectives and milestones
To provide accurate, timely and useable regional data, consolidate information from various sources and provide regular, in-depth analysis of this data to a wide audience.
Act as paediatric project coordinator working with SHT (specialist Haemoglobinopathy Team) clinical leads to deliver development plans, track progress, assess risks and issues and escalate issues via appropriate governance processes
Facilitate where appropriate joint working across the networks with all appropriate providers
Provide day to day administrative support to the clinical team onsite
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 description
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.
Job description
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject, or Equivalent level qualification in data management, project management or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with senior clinicians in complex clinical environments
- Experience of co-ordinating processes to collect key clinical data
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at Senior Manager level.
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to varied groups of internal and external stakeholders
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in clinical environments
- Demonstrate experience in a Healthcare environment
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Extensive experience using Office packages including Excel and access databases
- Experience of working with clinical informatics and IT teams to create clinical databases
- Able to maintain and develop relevant filing systems
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Organising events and workshops including selection of venue, provision of material
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of existing clinical networks and policy developments relating to networks
- Knowledge of project principles
- Knowledge of project management techniques and tools
- Knowledge and experience of using IT packages with the ability to consolidate and manipulate data
Desirable
- Knowledge of the key principles underlying functional clinical networks and understanding of service specification for SHT's.
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- 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 and network manager to define policies and governance procedures for a network
- Analysis of business performance information and ability to highlight performance information
- Ability to co-ordinate multi-disciplinary meetings
- 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.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Strong organisational skills
Personal Skills
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject, or Equivalent level qualification in data management, project management or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with senior clinicians in complex clinical environments
- Experience of co-ordinating processes to collect key clinical data
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at Senior Manager level.
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to varied groups of internal and external stakeholders
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in clinical environments
- Demonstrate experience in a Healthcare environment
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Extensive experience using Office packages including Excel and access databases
- Experience of working with clinical informatics and IT teams to create clinical databases
- Able to maintain and develop relevant filing systems
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Organising events and workshops including selection of venue, provision of material
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of existing clinical networks and policy developments relating to networks
- Knowledge of project principles
- Knowledge of project management techniques and tools
- Knowledge and experience of using IT packages with the ability to consolidate and manipulate data
Desirable
- Knowledge of the key principles underlying functional clinical networks and understanding of service specification for SHT's.
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- 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 and network manager to define policies and governance procedures for a network
- Analysis of business performance information and ability to highlight performance information
- Ability to co-ordinate multi-disciplinary meetings
- 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.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Strong organisational skills
Personal Skills
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Birmingham Children's Hospital
Birmingham
B4 6NH
Employer's website
https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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