Job summary
Roald Dahl Nurse Specialist for Children with Medical Complexity, Band 7 - Full Time
Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to make a difference to the lives of children and young people with medical complexity (CMC)? Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and Managed Clinical services (RMCH/MCS), in partnership with Roald Dahl's Marvelous Children's Charity, has an exciting and unique opportunity to work as a Roald Dahl CMC Nurse Specialist. As the role is the first of its kind nationally, this expert practitioner will be part of a new, innovative, and evolving area of paediatric care. In addition, you will receive support from Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity including training opportunities and peer support from the network of Roald Dahl Specialist.
The Roald Dahl CMC Nurse Specialist would enable proactive and inclusive services centered on the needs of the child and family to prevent hospitalisation, improve communication, improve resilience, enhance relationships between families and professionals, and to have greater information sharing across organisational boundaries.
Main duties of the job
Your main responsibilities will include:
Improving access to the CMC service
Coordination of care within the hospital setting and work with community teams to coordinate care to the point of discharge.
Work autonomously providing support for families/carers who are often in hospital for long periods of time.
Educate CYP and families / carers to learn new skills.
Providing review at outpatient appointments.
Provide clinical expertise to improve safe standards of care by active involvement in the patient journey and development of patient pathways.
Work collaboratively with all stakeholders to facilitate improved patient flow, capacity and continuity of care.
Reduce length of stay by assisting to streamline the patient hospital journey.
Prevention of hospital admission providing outpatient support.
Support for families/carers physical, emotional and social needs.
Support for transition to adult services.
Complete, and support ward staff to complete, CMC Healthcare passports.
Support the education of Trust staff regarding CMC care delivery.
Work with ACP to actively research and audit
A commitment to network with Roald Dahl Nurses already delivering specialist and holistic care
Collect data and compile accurate and up to date reports for both internal and external partners including Roald Dahl Marvellous Children's Charity.
Act as Ambassador for Roald Dahl Marvellous Children's Charity, raising awareness of the charity amongst colleagues and families.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- evidence of level 7 study
Experience
Essential
- experience at Band 6
- up to date paediatric experience
Desirable
- specialist nurse experience
leadership and management
Essential
- evidence of communciation skills
- excellent problem solving skills
- teaching qualifications
- line management experience
- organization and time management skills
Desirable
- leadership skills demonstrated in practice
- enhanced communications skills training
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- evidence of level 7 study
Experience
Essential
- experience at Band 6
- up to date paediatric experience
Desirable
- specialist nurse experience
leadership and management
Essential
- evidence of communciation skills
- excellent problem solving skills
- teaching qualifications
- line management experience
- organization and time management skills
Desirable
- leadership skills demonstrated in practice
- enhanced communications skills training
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
