Paediatric Clinical Specialist

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

The closing date is 23 May 2025

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled and motivated Paediatric Clinical Specialist to join our Theatre team at The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. We are seeking a qualified Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) or Registered Nurse (RN) with a recognised anaesthetic qualification and substantial experience in paediatric anaesthesia. The successful candidate will act as the clinical lead for paediatric Airway, promoting excellence in practice and providing leadership across the perioperative environment. This role combines clinical responsibility with workforce development, service improvement, and the maintenance of safe, evidence based care delivery for our paediatric patients.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will demonstrate clinical excellence in paediatric airway's and act as a role model for best practice within this specialty. Working closely with the Team Leader and the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT). Clinical Leadership: Promotes and upholds excellence in paediatric airway care, ensuring best practice is embedded in clinical delivery. Team Collaboration: Works in partnership with the Team Leader and MDT to ensure patient focused service. Workload Organisation: Coordinates clinical workload to ensure staff are both competent and confident in meeting the needs of paediatric patients. Resource Planning: Contributes to workforce planning by identifying skill mix and staffing requirements, promoting flexible and responsive working practices. Staff Wellbeing: Actively participates in the monitoring and management of staff sickness and absence in accordance with trust policies. Recruitment: Supports the recruitment and selection of staff, ensuring a high calibre of candidates and alignment with service needs. Teaching: Provide mentorship and assessment of staff performance, facilitating both individual and team-based development to maintain clinical standards and encourage professional growth.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Date posted

06 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

000303

Job locations

Trust-wide

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF1 4DG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Creates, maintains and enhances effective working relationships

Organising the clinical workload to ensure that staff are competent and confident to care for the needs of the patient.

Contributes to the identification of the skill and manpower requirement of the team, adopting flexible working practices.

Ensures effective delegation in line with the capabilities and competencies of the staff delegated to.

Participate in the monitoring and the management of sickness/absence

Participate in the recruitment and selection of staff

Participate in the identification and monitoring of staff performance through mentorship and assessment of individuals. This may be through a shared team approach or individual performance review.

Maintain current and safe evidence based practice by reviewing/writing perioperative policies on an annual basis

Assisting in the investigation of complaints in a proactive manner to improve and review the quality of the service

Assist/participate in the investigation of clinical incidents in a proactive manner to improve and review the quality of service

Contribute to the development of annual departmental, directorate and trust objectives and the transfer of these to practice

Works in line with core trust policy

Leads in being the clinical specialist in their particular area of expertise.

Promotes and demonstrates excellence in practice as clinical lead for their area of expertise

Strive for continuous improvements in the delivery of high quality patient focused care

As part of the multidisciplinary team participate in the “Who Safeguard Surgery Checklist” for each patient; sign n, time out and sign out procedure.

Work in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team, assessing health related needs of patients and their carers to identify and initiate steps to deliver effective and evidenced based care.

Promote and demonstrate a holistic care of individuals

Carry out identified intermittent dual role skills after undertaking the Trust “in house” training programme for minor to intermediate cases in accordance with the trusts dual role policy and guidelines

Demonstrating clinical judgement and the ability to articulate why decisions are made.

Deliver direct care to patients within their caseload in accordance with the Trusts policies and NMC/HPC Guidelines.

Creates, maintains and enhances effective working relationships

Organising the clinical workload to ensure that staff are competent and confident to care for the needs of the patient.

Contributes to the identification of the skill and manpower requirement of the team, adopting flexible working practices.

Ensures effective delegation in line with the capabilities and competencies of the staff delegated to.

Participate in the monitoring and the management of sickness/absence

Participate in the recruitment and selection of staff

Participate in the identification and monitoring of staff performance through mentorship and assessment of individuals. This may be through a shared team approach or individual performance review.

Maintain current and safe evidence based practice by reviewing/writing perioperative policies on an annual basis

Assisting in the investigation of complaints in a proactive manner to improve and review the quality of the service

Assist/participate in the investigation of clinical incidents in a proactive manner to improve and review the quality of service

Contribute to the development of annual departmental, directorate and trust objectives and the transfer of these to practice

Works in line with core trust policy

Leads in being the clinical specialist in their particular area of expertise.

Promotes and demonstrates excellence in practice as clinical lead for their area of expertise

Strive for continuous improvements in the delivery of high quality patient focused care

As part of the multidisciplinary team participate in the “Who Safeguard Surgery Checklist” for each patient; sign n, time out and sign out procedure.

Work in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team, assessing health related needs of patients and their carers to identify and initiate steps to deliver effective and evidenced based care.

Promote and demonstrate a holistic care of individuals

Demonstrating clinical judgement and the ability to articulate why decisions are made.

Deliver direct care to patients within their caseload in accordance with the Trusts policies and NMC/HPC Guidelines.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Creates, maintains and enhances effective working relationships

Organising the clinical workload to ensure that staff are competent and confident to care for the needs of the patient.

Contributes to the identification of the skill and manpower requirement of the team, adopting flexible working practices.

Ensures effective delegation in line with the capabilities and competencies of the staff delegated to.

Participate in the monitoring and the management of sickness/absence

Participate in the recruitment and selection of staff

Participate in the identification and monitoring of staff performance through mentorship and assessment of individuals. This may be through a shared team approach or individual performance review.

Maintain current and safe evidence based practice by reviewing/writing perioperative policies on an annual basis

Assisting in the investigation of complaints in a proactive manner to improve and review the quality of the service

Assist/participate in the investigation of clinical incidents in a proactive manner to improve and review the quality of service

Contribute to the development of annual departmental, directorate and trust objectives and the transfer of these to practice

Works in line with core trust policy

Leads in being the clinical specialist in their particular area of expertise.

Promotes and demonstrates excellence in practice as clinical lead for their area of expertise

Strive for continuous improvements in the delivery of high quality patient focused care

As part of the multidisciplinary team participate in the “Who Safeguard Surgery Checklist” for each patient; sign n, time out and sign out procedure.

Work in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team, assessing health related needs of patients and their carers to identify and initiate steps to deliver effective and evidenced based care.

Promote and demonstrate a holistic care of individuals

Demonstrating clinical judgement and the ability to articulate why decisions are made.

Deliver direct care to patients within their caseload in accordance with the Trusts policies and NMC/HPC Guidelines.

Creates, maintains and enhances effective working relationships

Organising the clinical workload to ensure that staff are competent and confident to care for the needs of the patient.

Contributes to the identification of the skill and manpower requirement of the team, adopting flexible working practices.

Ensures effective delegation in line with the capabilities and competencies of the staff delegated to.

Participate in the monitoring and the management of sickness/absence

Participate in the recruitment and selection of staff

Participate in the identification and monitoring of staff performance through mentorship and assessment of individuals. This may be through a shared team approach or individual performance review.

Maintain current and safe evidence based practice by reviewing/writing perioperative policies on an annual basis

Assisting in the investigation of complaints in a proactive manner to improve and review the quality of the service

Assist/participate in the investigation of clinical incidents in a proactive manner to improve and review the quality of service

Contribute to the development of annual departmental, directorate and trust objectives and the transfer of these to practice

Works in line with core trust policy

Leads in being the clinical specialist in their particular area of expertise.

Promotes and demonstrates excellence in practice as clinical lead for their area of expertise

Strive for continuous improvements in the delivery of high quality patient focused care

As part of the multidisciplinary team participate in the “Who Safeguard Surgery Checklist” for each patient; sign n, time out and sign out procedure.

Work in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team, assessing health related needs of patients and their carers to identify and initiate steps to deliver effective and evidenced based care.

Promote and demonstrate a holistic care of individuals

Demonstrating clinical judgement and the ability to articulate why decisions are made.

Deliver direct care to patients within their caseload in accordance with the Trusts policies and NMC/HPC Guidelines.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application)

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.