Paediatric Band 6 Co-Ordinator

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Supernumerary Paediatric Band 6 Co-ordinator -

The postholder will have senior nurse support on site in hours and can liaise with the Senior Paediatric Nurse on call out of hours. The role will be responsible for the co-ordination and oversight of delivery and implementation of patient care across the entire Paediatric Unit.

The post holder will be responsible for effective handover from Day/Night reporting on patient safety and attending Resuscitation calls, out of hours bed capacity management, safer staffing and provide senior decision making with a clinically operational overview of the Unit. The post holder may be called upon to manage and support clinical pressures. The post holder will support staff across all inpatient Ward areas 14,15 ,16, and the Paediatric Critical Care Unit. The post holder will be a high profile, visible, accessible, and responsive leader with resource responsibility. They will be able to make informed decisions within their own specialty and scope of professional practice to ensure agreed standards and objectives are met.

The post holder will uphold UHCW NHS Trust clinical governance agenda ensuring that the quality of the patient care is central to all relevant systems and processes, able to make an informed decisions within their own area and scope of professional practice.

In addition to providing exceptional clinical support, the role of the Paediatric Clinical Co-ordinator will include carrying the Paediatric resuscitation Bleep on Late shifts, weekend days / nights and in the absence of the Paediatric Critical Care Outreach Nurse.

The Paediatric Clinical Co-ordinator will be responsibility for bed capacity management on late shifts, nights, weekends This element to the role is to co-ordinate and ensure patients are admitted safely and promptly to the paediatric inpatient area and maintain flow from Childrens Emergency Department.

The Paediatric Clinical Co-ordinator will have a high level of Paediatric clinical experience and knowledge gained through registration, continuous professional development together with post registration courses to enable them to be an effective facilitator able to exercise complex levels of judgment and decision-making.

The post holder will provide leadership, management, and direction for all groups of staff including clinical support staff to ensure that education and staff development needs are met within the area for which they are accountable. They will provide evidence-based high quality patient care advice and be visible, accessible, responsive and act as role model for all staff.

As the Paediatric Clinical Co-ordinator on shift, they will be responsible for managing ad hoc situations as they arise in the ward environment that require senior nursing intervention, escalating as appropriate I.e., patient safety incidents, HR related matters, complaints, and staff / parent conflict. 

The Paediatric Clinical Co-ordinator will assist in the management of incidents (clinical and non-clinical) reported via the Datix incident management system, investigating, and ensuring robust governance management of incidents, ensuring appropriate feedback and any learning is shared to enable reflection and practice related development takes place. 

Staff Benefits

Your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay and here are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:

Our benefits include but are not limited to:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday Entitlement starting at 27 days a year plus bank holidays
• On site nature walk
• Outdoor gym - easily accessible at lunchtime
• Car and bicycle schemes
• On-site parking
• On-site nursery
• Access to exclusive discounts, mobile apps and more via NHS Discounts and Blue Light Card
• Emotional Wellbeing Service covering a range of online support
• CSB library onsite which is accessible 24 hours per day

If all areas of the Person Spec and Job Description are met then the successful candidate will receive a responsibility allowance which will be commensurate to Agenda for Change.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.