Band 7 roleThe post holder will be required to work collaboratively and effectively with colleagues across a wide range of multid.....
Band 7 role
The post holder will be required to work collaboratively and effectively with colleagues across a wide range of multidisciplinary teams including medical and nursing, in hospital and the community, primary care, social services, police, education and the voluntary sector.
You should have experience of working with children and families within a multi-professional team at a senior level (band 6) as well as being able to evidence a sufficient level of knowledge.
You should have the ability to analyse information quickly and thoroughly and to act upon the findings and have highly developed assessment skills in challenging and distressing situations.
You will need to have highly developed and clear, effective communication skills including empathy in order to work with families, children and young people and other professionals, often in extremely distressing circumstances and be able to provide support to other professionals who may never have dealt with the death of a child and work effectively across agencies and disciplines.
You are required to have excellent organisational and time management skills in order to achieve performance targets in an unpredictable work load and be able to work autonomously as well as in a team. You will be working in a small supportive team with regular access to supervision, networking and education.
The key responsibility is to act as the lead health professional following the sudden and unexpected death of a child (following a live birth up to their 18thbirthday).
To co-ordinate the child death pathway alongside the Designated doctor for child death and ensure this pathway is followed.
To work collaboratively with partner agencies to ensure they meet their requirements in relation to child death, and to offer support and advice to staff who have worked with the child and family.
To ensure the appropriate bereavement support is offered to families
To carry out other duties in relation to the role of nurse specialist for child death required by the service.
NHS Shropshire, Telford, and Wrekin is responsible for planning and buying a wide range of health and care services for the whole of Shropshire, Telford, and Wrekin. These include GP and primary care services, hospital care, community healthcare and mental health services. We also have a duty to monitor these services to ensure they provide a high level of care and are value for money.
We are part of Shropshire Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System. This means we work closely with our partner organisations across the county, such as the two local authorities, the 51 GP practices, the hospitals, and the voluntary and community sector, to plan and deliver joined up health and care services.
Working closely together, in a more joined-up way, means we can have closer links to our patients so we can develop more personalised local services which will improve the lives of our residents and reduce inequalities.
NHS Shropshire, Telford, and Wrekin currently have an agile working policy, with a combination of working from home and occasional office-based work or meetings. The organisation creates a supportive culture for all staff and encourages staff to access the Health and Wellbeing group which has a programme of activities, events, and training.
Job Responsibilities:
• Provide specialist advice and support to all staff in respect of child deaths.
• Work collaboratively with the ICB and Directors of Public Health in identifying leading causes of childhood deaths across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin (STW) and to work with internal and external partner agencies to address areas of concern: identify areas of need and inform the work of commissioners for future planning of children’s services.
• Work with local partners in establishing robust processes, systems and governance arrangements in the management of child death reviews in line with national guidance and legislation.
• To be an active panel member of the STW Child Death Overview Panels. To be the representative on other regional panels as required.
• Co-ordinate and contribute to the organisation of and participation within the Joint Agency Review meetings, Child Death Review meetings, Hospital Trust Mortality Meetings, National Perinatal Mortality Review Tool meeting and others meetings as necessary.
• Take a lead within the ICB in the investigation of child deaths, expected and unexpected and to facilitate the rapid response as required. To carry out scene visits as required in collaboration with the police.
• Collecting and collating information and preparing reports for eCDOP. Reviewing all the information available and making recommendations where changes in policy and practice are indicated to promote safer practice.
• Lead in the training aspect of feeding back lessons learned/recommendations from any child death review, in a variety of educational forums. To be a key role in the delivery of training in relation to the child death review procedures within the ICB and to co-facilitate inter agency training with partners.
• Establish and maintain clear lines of communication with other agencies, particularly in relation to information sharing and supporting staff through training.
• In collaboration with the Designated Professionals for safeguarding children, to take the lead and responsibility for ensuring dissemination of information and sharing of good practice
• Identify gaps in service provision and work with service users, commissioners and provider organisations to develop a comprehensive bereavement support service supporting bereaved children and Young people and families where a child has died. Information of this to be shared with partner agencies.
• Establish effective links with partner agencies such as the genetic counselling service, palliative care services, hospices and Care of the Next Infant (CONI) to ensure support is given to families and learning is disseminated across the health economy.
• Establish links with regional and national forums, seeking to establish collaborative networks in relation to the principle aspects of the role- e.g. child death reviews, and bereavement support networks.
• Provide and receive, analyse and disseminate highly complex, sensitive information, ensuring sensitive information is treated confidentially.
• Produce the quarterly data and annual reports for the ICBs as requested.
• Utilise IT systems to support communication, store information and produce presentations.
• Communicate child safeguarding concerns in accordance with local Safeguarding Partnership guidelines and procedures and to assist agencies as necessary with this process.
• Participate in the ICB input into internal management reports / child safeguarding practice reviews as requested to ensure recommendations and action plans are completed within specified time limits.
• Develop and implement protocols and guidance to support the Child Death Review Process across the ICB and provider organisations.
• Participates with other local Safeguarding Children professionals in receiving, interpreting, and implementing national policy and guidance.
• Works with partner agencies/Public Health to reduce childhood accidents, assessing the how the role of health and allied professionals may address causes of such accidents.
• Participates in audit and performance reviews to inform external agencies of activities and status within child death
• Assist the Designated Doctor in ensuring that information from relevant research and inquiry findings is disseminated, to continue to review and develop methods for sharing best practice.
• Responsible for the completion and storage of accurate records via electronic methods, ensuring safe storage and compliance with the ICB record keeping policy.
This advert closes on Friday 21 Jun 2024
