Assistant Team Leader

We are looking for an experienced nurse to join our children’s community long term ventilation and complex needs nursing service; this dynamic service has its footprint within the Oldham locality and is provided across family homes and community based settings.

Are you a band 6 registered children’s nurse that has a desire to work within a great team, with remarkable people, who make a difference every day? If this is you, then we would love you to come and work with us and see for yourself.

We offer many excellent opportunities, such as V300 nurse prescriber training, flexible working, SCARF. We also strive to be a great family-friendly place to work for all our staff, we value the expertise of our nurses and provide opportunities for you to progress in your career, improve patient care and get involved in innovative opportunities

**Service/Ward/Department Summary**:
The post holder will work predominately within the Children’s Long-term Ventilation and Complex needs team but may also utilise their clinical skills, by working across other areas of the wider children’s community nursing service as deemed necessary and appropriate by the service lead.

**Role Summary**:
The post holder will work alongside immediate team colleagues and external multidisciplinary partners, to develop co-ordinated continuing care packages for children and young people, who have complex care needs and or technology dependence and acute life limiting needs.

The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team. We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community. If you share our vision, take your place with us.

**Key Responsibilities of the Post holder**:

- As a named nurse and case holder, to hold responsibility for the monitoring, assessing, implementing and evaluating individualised programmes for care for children and young people
- To provide clinical training and support for both registered and non-registered staff, who work with children and young people in the local community
- Act as a highly credible role model and resource to support, develop and monitor the performance of individual colleagues
- Give clinical advice to wider multidisciplinary colleagues as required, including external agencies
- Work alongside colleagues within the on-call rota
- Ensure current practice is evidence based and be an innovative practitioner at all times
- Provide on-going assessments of staff / colleagues skills and competency
- Ensure information, holistic support and education are available for the individual children, young people, their families and all relevant carers at all times

**Key Requirements of the Person Specification**:

- Registered Children’s nurse, with an active Nursing & Midwifery (NMC) registration
- Educated to either diploma and or degree level, with experiential knowledge of working with children and young people with complex health care needs
- Ability to work autonomously and a desire to work within a supportive wider children’s community nursing service.
- Willingness to work effectively within a multidisciplinary and integrated team
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.