Nurse Clinical Coordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to join our friendly team as the Clinical Coordinator in Dolphin Ward, Children's Outpatient Department at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich. Children's Outpatients is a very busy department seeing 350-400 children per week. We have multidisciplinary clinics Monday to Friday, as well as Nurse Led Clinics. There are a variety of specialities seen within outpatients including Paediatric Surgery, Diabetes, Allergy, Epilepsy, Respiratory, Sickle Cell, Oncology, Long Term Ventilation and many more. As the Clinical Coordinator you will be expected to work as a member of the multidisciplinary team to assist with the planned care of children and their families, and work closely with Paediatric Medical Records, Appointments and with our Medical and Nursing multidisciplinary teams. The successful candidate will be able to extend their leadership skills leading a small team of nurses, healthcare assistants, play support worker and
volunteers to provide a positive experience and family centred care within the Children's Outpatient Department. Other responsibilities include conducting staff appraisals, managing staff sickness, staff rotas, clinic schedules and room bookings.

Main duties of the job

In the absence of the Matron, you will coordinate the overall management of the department working with the multi professional team.

You will be expected to:

To utilise and develop specialist skills in order to provide the highest standard of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised patient care.

To promote a friendly and supportive atmosphere for parents and relatives in which they can learn to care for their children.

To utilise a variety of strategies to communicate effectively with the child's family/carers, the multidisciplinary team, other departments with the trust and pertinent agencies outside the organisation.

To actively participate in and contribute to the management of the clinical area.

To act as a mentor, teaching and supervising junior staff including student nurses and health care support workers., 1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations