Junior Sister / Charge Nurse PICU Extended Stay inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED
FRI 1 NOV 2024
The position involves monitoring the safety and quality of discharge processes, striving for continuous improvement and improved patient experience, as well as identifying and addressing the educational needs of parents and caregivers. The candidate will be part of a dedicated team committed to high standards of care within a well-supported learning environment, conducive to professional development and research.
This is a 12 month post to cover maternity leave.
As an experienced Paediatric Intensive Care (PIC) nurse leader. The post holder will support the management and the challenges of our complex children, work with families who are under stress and manage a small team of people. The expectation is that children and their families who have an extended stay in our PICU are supported and the discharge of the child is expedited in a supportive manner. The post holder will need to be able to support the clinical team, by providing nurse supervision and bedside education and lead the clinical team when required.
Our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is a purpose-built 31 bed unit. As nominated Lead Centre for Paediatric Intensive Care services for the West Midlands, we care for critically ill children from a wide range of specialties including cardiac, ECMO, hepatology, medical, oncology, renal and trauma. Set within a learning environment offering excellent comprehensive professional development opportunities, we have a high commitment to research and education.
- Develop and support sustained, structured discharge processes for all PICU/CICU patient groups, with the understanding that long stay will be the majority.
- Long stay patients will have day to day continuity of care
- Ensure children with complex medical needs (including technology dependent children) are identified early in admission, 'parallel planning' of their discharge pathway is running alongside their clinical treatment to ensure timely discharge is implemented, evaluated, and modified as required.
- Close working relationships with the multi-agencies involved in provision of care of children with medical complexity including the PICU/CICU FLT, the BWC Children with Medical Complexity Team, Long-Term Ventilation team speciality liaison nurses, community and social care professionals to facilitate the planning of discharge from PICU/CICU to either a ward inside or outside BWC or home.
- Monitor PICU/CICU discharge process safety and quality, including patient experience, clinical risk and length of stay - in order to drive continual improvement and reduce length of stay.
- Provide highly skilled, quality nursing care to children with medical complexity from transition from hospital to home and support other members of the PICU/CICU team to achieve this
- Identify learning needs of parents and carers of children with medical complexities and be responsible for the implementation of education
- Assist in the Long-Term Ventilation education of the PICU/CICU nursing team
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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
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