Job summary
- Main area
- Endocrinology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term Maternity Leave Cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 284-24-6906829-DMUT
- Employer
- Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birmingham Children's Hospital
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Metabolic Bone Disease Specialist Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 5
Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic band 5 nurse to join the Metabolic Bone Disease Team at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. This role provides an excellent opportunity to develop specialist skills and knowledge in the care of children and young people with metabolic bone conditions, working within a supportive multidisciplinary team.
The successful candidate will work under the guidance of senior nursing staff, gaining experience in delivering high-quality care through nurse-led admissions and multidisciplinary clinics. This post is ideal for a nurse looking to build expertise in a specialist area while being supported to develop professionally and clinically.
You will have the chance to work across inpatient, outpatient, and community settings, assisting in patient education, care planning, and the coordination of services to ensure the best outcomes for children and their families.
Main duties of the job
- Provide specialist nursing care to children and young people with metabolic bone diseases, including planning, implementing, and evaluating care in partnership with families and the wider team.
- Participate in nurse led admissions and multidisciplinary clinics across a range of settings, ensuring patients receive evidence-based interventions and support.
- Act as a key point of contact for patients, families, and external agencies, offering advice, education, and resources to facilitate informed decision-making and care planning.
- Participate in ward rounds, outpatient clinics, and school visits to ensure continuity of care and safe integration into education and social environments.
- Assist in transitional care planning for adolescents moving to adult services.
- Collaborate with shared-care centres, primary care teams, and schools, providing training and resources to enhance local care delivery.
- Support audits, protocol reviews, and quality improvement initiatives to enhance service standards and clinical outcomes.
- Contribute to the development of new treatments and protocols, maintaining up to date clinical knowledge through continuous professional development.
- Work alongside the senior nursing staff to develop the service and act as a resource for patients and healthcare providers.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s 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).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC Registration Sub Part One Children
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- NMC Registered Nurse Teacher/Willing to Undertake
Knowledge & Nature of Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working well within the team
- Ability to motivate and support others
- Demonstrate an interest in the role of the nurse specialist caring for children and young people with metabolic bone disease
- Demonstrate the ability to take responsibility for own on-going professional development
Desirable criteria
- Demonstration of current clinical skills in caring for children and young people with metabolic bone disease
- Clinical skills such as venipuncture and cannulation
- Participating in regional and national group forums
Analytical & Judgement Skills
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate ability to support quality service improvements and participate in clinical audits
- Demonstrate ability to participate in clinical audit, research and education initiative to ensure the delivery of evidence based clinical practice and high quality care
Professional / Managerial / Specialist Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of band 5 management experience
- Recent experience of mentoring junior staff/students
- Ability to access, use and interpret Word, Excel, Powerpoint and EPR/Lorenzo, or willing to master
Desirable criteria
- An understanding of local and national service delivery for children and young people with metabolic bone disease
Personal Skills / Abilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Effective time management skills for self and others
- Ability to organise self and others to work flexibly to deliver clinical training that meets service need
- Demonstrate an understanding of the practice of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role
- Appreciates the benefits of team working
- Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required to meet service needs
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Commitment and enthusiasm
Desirable criteria
- Effective presentation skills
- Ability to plan, deliver and review programmes of patient/family education
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jaskiran Kaur Sahota
- Job title
- Senior Metabolic Bone Disease Nurse Specialist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 333 8517
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