Clinical Lead for Major Trauma Rehabilitation

+ Provide clinical leadership and support the clinical working of the team within trauma rehabilitation service.
+ Undertake a virtual and/or face to face ward round (weekly) of all major trauma patients who are receiving hyper acute rehabilitation via chairing the weekly major trauma rehabilitation MDT meeting.
+ Lead on making and document justified and morally sound decisions and recommendations in clinically and ethically challenging situations, especially in patients who lack mental capacity.
+ Attend the weekly HOT meeting.
+ Develop an outpatient service for children who have sustained a traumatic injury and require an ongoing holistic view of their care with the lead specialty.
· Work collaboratively with health, education, and social care professionals to develop pathways and strategies for efficient and effective transition from hospital to school with the aim to minimise disruption to schooling and to ensure that the child and family receive the holistic care they require.
+ To identify variance from acceptable performance standards and take appropriate responsive action.
+ Ensure the Trust achieves the standards set out in the NICE Major Trauma Rehabilitation Clinical Standards and National Major Trauma Peer Review Standards
+ Lead on robust local audits to feed into the National trauma rehabilitation audits, contribute to quality improvement and research within the service.
Further information is available in the job description., Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a designated paediatric Major Trauma Centre (MTC) for the Northwest Region. Children and young people who sustain traumatic injuries require a managed transition from admission to rehabilitation and subsequently discharge to the community. There is overwhelming evidence that rehabilitation teams with the expert knowledge and skills, who work collaboratively and include formal liaison or goal setting meetings, that have an active education programme, and that engage families in the process improves patient outcomes and is often very cost effective. For this reason the major trauma rehabilitation service aims to align its objectives to the World Health Organisation's principles which states that rehabilitation intervention should be aimed at achieving the following:
+ Preventing the loss of function
+ Slowing the rate of loss of function
+ Improving or restoring function
+ Compensating for lost function
+ Maintaining current function
The role requires both the generic and the speciality knowledge, skills, attitudes, and assessment skills needed to manage patients presenting with traumatic injuries. It involves particular emphasis on clinical reasoning, managing complex multi-factorial problems, recognising appropriately both the limits of and the need for medical investigations and treatments, and identifying when other medical specialities and/or health and social care professions and/or organisations need to be involved, and how to liaise most effectively with other teams.
Whilst providing clinical leadership and overseeing the delivery of the major trauma rehabilitation pathway, it is hoped the post holder would strive to decrease variation in practices, increase quality of care and standardise pathways across Liverpool, Cheshire, and Merseyside as well as the wider area that the service serves, bringing together tertiary care, primary care, education, social care and charitable and third sector organisations.
The post holder must have excellent leadership skills and be able to influence at a National, Northwest, and local level. They will be responsible for maintaining and strengthening clinical and operational links with neighbouring trauma centres to ensure the robustness of the Northwest Trauma Rehabilitation service. They must be dedicated in providing excellence in patient care at all points of the trauma rehabilitation pathway.
The post holder must support service improvement and be a champion for change. There also may be opportunities to create an in-house trauma rehabilitation training programme for trainees at Alder Hey.
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Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.
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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., The successful candidate will work as part of the Major Trauma Team to provide care to Children and young people who sustain traumatic injuries and are admitted to the Alder Hey Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust major trauma service requiring a managed transition from admission to rehabilitation and subsequently discharge to the community., As one of Europe's biggest and busiest children's hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children's medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world's leaders in children's healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children's specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children's hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.

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