Band 7 Acute Spinal Cord Injury Practitioner

Job Summary

Join University Hospitals Birmingham's innovative Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Networked Model of Care team and help shape the future of acute SCI services. Working closely with SCI Clinical Leads, Midlands Centre for Spinal Injuries, multidisciplinary teams and regional partners, you will provide expert clinical leadership, assessment, education and support for patients with acute SCI, their families and healthcare professionals across the region.

This autonomous specialist role offers the opportunity to manage a complex caseload, influence service development, drive quality improvement initiatives and deliver education programmes across the region. You will be instrumental in improving patient pathways, reducing variation in care and ensuring patients receive evidence-based, person-centred support.

We are looking for an experienced Nurse or AHP with significant post-registration experience in acute spinal cord injury care. You will have advanced clinical reasoning skills, a strong commitment to education and service improvement, and the confidence to work collaboratively with senior clinicians and stakeholders.

In return, we offer the opportunity to work within a highly specialised service, contribute to regional strategy, develop advanced practice skills and make a lasting difference to the lives of people with SCI.

If you are motivated by innovation, leadership and improving outcomes for patients with complex needs, we would love to hear from you. Full and part-time opportunities available.

Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required

The successful candidates will be expected to be able to work autonomously and collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, working across professional boundaries to optimise clearly defined patient care plans, outcomes and a stratified follow up programme, to achieve a holistic approach through patient centred care. The post holders will provide leadership, guidance and exercise judgment in making patient centred decisions within current best practice guidance, relevant legal frameworks and with clear understanding of the relevant professional and applied ethical frameworks. The post holder will assist in monitoring and improving standards of care and play an active role in the reporting and evaluation of care related to regionally agreed key performance indicators. The post holders will also play an active role in teaching and supporting professional colleagues and the provision of professional leadership, contributing to clinical effectiveness across the Trust by participating in audit/research as part of the MDT in the field of SCI care and treatment.

The successful candidates will have a proven track record in the delivering the best care for SCI patients and will be a part of a "networked model of SCI care" with the post holder expected to travel across the region including MCSI (Oswestry).

About Us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job Description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree qualification e.g. MCSP/ BSc.
• To have a MSc/ Masters qualification and/or equivalent experience.
• Registration with Health Care Professions Council or Registered Adult Nurse on the NMC Register Evidence
• Commitment to advanced clinical and non-clinical continued professional development within own speciality, e.g. post registration training, management / Leadership competencies and evidence of a detailed personal development portfolio.
• CSP/NMC or equivalent professional registration.
• Relevant, accredited, postgraduate education/courses in relevant areas of speciality.
  
  

Experience

Essential

• Evidence and ability to revalidate / re-register as required by the NMC / HCPC.
• Significant post registration experience of which considerable experience has been in Inpatient SCI in an acute NHS organisation.
• Some experience of clinical/service evaluation.
• Awareness of current evidence in acute SCI and application to clinical practice, using advanced clinical reasoning skills.
• Good understanding of IT systems and its application to clinical practice.
• Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of on-going professional development/ competence.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality.
• Significant experience in education and clinical training of others. Enthusiasm for developing educational programmes and teaching / assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting.
• Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment.
• Experience of patient service user advocacy role.
• Can demonstrate expert knowledge with an ability to assess, plan , implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give advice and information to patients / relatives/ care staff.
• Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context relating to the speciality
• Has understanding / experience of the principles of Safeguarding.
• Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator.
• Experience in service development
• Awareness of current research related to the speciality.
• Good knowledge and application of all areas of Clinical Governance including Quality, Audit and Risk management.
• Understands the legal responsibilities of the profession.
• Good understanding of principles of data and statistics and experience of their use in evaluation of service delivery.
• Knowledge and understanding of the research process.
• Teaching experience to uni and multi-professional groups with evidence of ability to deliver high quality presentations.
  
  

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Ability to work autonomously within specialist clinical area & undertake clinical analysis and reasoning skills in the assessment and treatment of SCI Patients and apply broad standards & guidelines to own practice.
• Ability to explain the requirement to balance clinical caseload.
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of health care professionals, on a variety of complex and sensitive issues which require persuasive and empathetic skills.
• Leadership and influential skills, able to lead and command confidence in senior therapists, consultants, senior nurses and managers within and related to SCI patients.
• Ability to work autonomously manage/prioritise own workload, supervise / appraise and asses junior staff.
• Competent in a range of clinical skills and expanded practices relevant to the scope of practice required.
• Ability to work under pressure across competing priorities.
• Ability to, undertake clinical audit, analyse information and develop robust measureable action plans to support improvement/change.
• Evidence of ability to compile reports and documents for internal / external communication.
• Knowledge of current evidence based practice and ability to apply to service and policy development.
• On-call skills (if appropriate to this post holder) and able to provide advice and patient assessment as a lone physiotherapist in an on-call situation.
• Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust's policies of data protection, equal opportunities and Health and Safety to meet the differing needs of patients.
• Strong sense of professional integrity, and compliance with Trust vision and values.
• Reliable, good attendance record.
• Physically fit and resilient, able to meet the physical and emotional demands of the post.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills and able to meet deadlines and targets.
• Ability to adapt behaviour to changing circumstances.
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Ability to communicate articulately and motivate others.
• Evidence of flexible and innovative approach to service delivery and development.
• Able and willing to work flexibly in order to meet service priorities.
• Excellent problem solving skills and ability to act on own initiative.
• To be able to travel to all hospital locations as required.
  
  

Desirable

• Ability to constructively challenge current practice and identify opportunity to develop, implement and facilitate change in practice by others.
• Good teaching, supervisory and appraisal skills.
• Able to interpret and analyse a range of policy, clinical guidelines and data and their relevance for practice.
  
  

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.

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.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For Help With Your Application, Contact

Clare Hassan

Clare.Hassan@uhb.nhs.uk

01213713474

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-Time, Full-Time, Flexible Working

Reference number

304-1104013-1

Job locations

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

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Job Description

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