Job summary
- Main area
- North West Neonatal Operational Delivery Network
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term or secondment)
- Hours
- Full time
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 411-COR-24-6401919
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
North West Neonatal Network Workforce & Education Lead Nurse
Band 8a
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
Do you have extensive experience in Neonatal Services and experience of service development and working to influence neonatal care? Are you looking for a new challenge?
If so come and join us in the North West Neonatal Operational Delivery Network (NWNODN). Established in April 2013 we are compromised of the 3 well established Locality Networks; Lancashire and South Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Cheshire and Merseyside covering 22 neonatal services.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective support service across the Neonatal Networks of the North West Neonatal ODN with the aim of:
- Improving access to and egress to/from services at the right time.
- Improving operational consistency
- Improving outcomes
- Increasing productivity
We require an individual with a senior level of Neonatal experience to work in a challenging and complex environment, where there is a significant focus to develop robust approaches to workforce and education planning as outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan, Neonatal Critical Care Review, Neonatal Critical Care Service Specification and GIRFT
Using your expert knowledge in neonatal workforce and education, you will collaborate with the national workforce/education group to generate and deliver a national, standardised approach to neonatal workforce reporting. You will work with local neonatal service providers across the Northwest to ensure submissions are in line with this standard and delivered within agreed timescales to inform decisions around future workforce planning.
As part of the senior ODN team, the post holder will ensure that workforce and education planning information and supporting tools underpin the delivery of strategic and operational plans within the neonatal service Providers of the ODN.
Working for our organisation
Our values are very important to us at Alder Hey. We expect everyone who works here to know these values and embody them every day. Our core values are; Excellence, Together, Innovation, Openness, and Respect.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
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The postholder will be expected to work with other workforce/education leads and subject matter experts nationally to generate a national standardised approach to neonatal workforce reporting.
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The post holder will use their expert knowledge of neonatal care to work collaboratively with stakeholders, including Neonatal Service Providers, Specialised Commissioning, Parents, Health Education England and Education Providers.
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The post holder will ensure that Neonatal workforce/education planning is triangulated with financial investment across the network to ensuring value for money alongside activity, capacity and demand projection to support the timely delivery of the agreed local and national outcomes/measures.
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Develop relationships to ensure strategic awareness and influence in programmes of work/initiatives that may have consequences for the neonatal workforce and education, such as local and/or national neonatal, maternity or paediatric transformation programmes.
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The post holder will provide expert leadership across the Neonatal ODN, to enable short, medium and long-term development and implementation of innovative approaches to integrated workforce and educational planning and workforce modelling:
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Through the implementation of the Workforce Strategy, you will provide leadership and influence workforce planning across the ODN to ensure that workforce data and information is accurate and up to date, thus providing high quality data to the ODN and national teams to support decision making. Ensure sound methodology is used, accurate and timely data is provided, identifying areas for improvement, working with colleagues and senior leaders providing expert guidance.
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The post holder will have high levels of engagement with national workforce/education programmes and initiatives and make certain knowledge gained is shared to best effect across the ODN. Where appropriate ensure that the ODN is best placed to participate and lead on any workforce/education programmes or pilots.
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Support neonatal service provider workforce planning teams in the development of their respective strategic and operational plans for all workforce planning/workforce modelling, including demand and flow modelling to ensure the organisations have the most effective utilisation of national tools and supporting resources
Please see attached Job Description for full details.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Neonatal qualification
- Masters or equivalent
- Teaching qualification or experience
Desirable criteria
- Leadership training
- Project management
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of innovating, implementing and evaluating new ways of working
- Experience of multidisciplinary neonatal education and training
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with Higher Education Institutes
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of specialist area,
- Extensive knowledge and experience of neonatal MDT workforce and related national standards
Analytical Skills
Essential criteria
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive issues or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Strategic thinking and able to resolve problems
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Karen Mainwaring
- Job title
- Acting Senior Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
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