Band 7 Senior Falls Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7Senior Falls Clinical Nurse Specialist. The post holder will line manage a small team of staff, providing an expert and professional falls service to staff and inpatients across the organisation. They will be a dynamic, caring and enthusiastic, highly motivated individual with experience of working in falls prevention and management across organisational boundaries. The falls team have an office base at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Heartlands hospital however the post holder will need to demonstrate a flexible approach to working across all hospital sites as required. The post requires a high level of communication and engagement with other key stakeholder groups to successfully provide an effective and efficient falls service, therefore the post holder will need to demonstrate a positive, open and inclusive approach to team working.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

The post holder will be passionate about ensuring clinical teams are well supported by acting as an expert resource on falls prevention and management to staff, patients and their families/carers. The post holder will demonstrate a 'can do' attitude, show commitment to driving quality improvements across a wide and varied organisation, and practice new and innovative ways of working to improve practice and performance regarding falls prevention and post fall management. The role requires a high level of skill in attention to detail and report writing when reviewing incidents and will entail working closely with the legal and Governance teams on investigations and Inquests.

As a team we strive to ensure that our patients can expect high standards of falls risk identification, and in turn receive the right falls prevention interventions at the right time and in the right place, wherever they are in the organisation. If you are passionate about falls prevention and believe you are the right person to help drive the falls service forward, then we would like to hear from you.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

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

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse on the NMC Register.
• BSC / First degree (health related) or equivalent qualification / training or experience.
• Professional knowledge acquired at degree level supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to degree / masters level equivalent.
• Recognised teaching course

Desirable

• Post registration qualification in (appropriate area of speciality)

Experience

Essential

• Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC.
• Significant post registration experience at Band 6 or above
• Evidence of ability to professionally lead / manage a team of staff.
• Demonstrable understanding of the management responsibility for pay and non-pay resources associated with a clinical service.
• Evidence of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator.
• Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of ongoing professional development/ competence.
• Demonstrate specialist knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality.
• Experience of developing educational programmes and teaching / assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting.
• Patient / user involvement and advocacy role
• Experience in service development
• Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment
• Can demonstrate expert nursing 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

Desirable

• Awareness of current research related to the speciality.
• Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Ability to balance clinical caseload and managing a team.
• Demonstrate achievement of numeracy and literacy skills.
• 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.
• Willingness to achieve competence 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 adapt behaviour to changing circumstances.
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude.
• Ability to communicate articulately and motivate others.
• Report writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to work autonomously, manage / prioritise own workload
• Ability to construct, undertake clinical audit and analyse information to produce a report and recommendations
• 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
• Ability to work a varied shift pattern where required.
• Ability to act on own initiative.
• Ability and willingness to travel and work between the different hospital sites.

Desirable

• Evidence of ability to compile reports and documents for internal / external communication.
• Ability to articulate and evidence workforce requirements for the service using a systematic approach / methodology and evidence base where this is available

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.