Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Co-Ordinator Children’s Palliative Care and Rapid Response
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Clinical Coordinator for Children’s Palliative Care and Rapid Response
The Clinical Coordinator for Children’s Palliative Care and Rapid Response provides clinical leadership, operational management, and oversight of the service. The post holder ensures safe, responsive, and high-quality care for children and young people with life-limiting, life-threatening, and complex health needs, supporting care in their preferred setting.
Working with the Clinical Service Lead and Service Manager, the post holder coordinates clinical activity, staffing, and resources to meet changing patient needs. The role combines expert clinical practice with leadership, supporting rapid response interventions, symptom management, end of life care, and reducing avoidable hospital admissions through proactive assessment and care planning.
The post holder provides specialist advice and support to multidisciplinary teams, children, young people, and families, promoting evidence-based practice, service development, and high standards of governance, safeguarding, and risk management.
Responsibilities
- Workforce coordination
- Service performance
- Staff development
- Supervision and education
Through partnership working with health, social care, and voluntary sector providers, the Clinical Coordinator supports integrated, child-centred care that improves outcomes and patient experience.
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The service operates seven days a week from 07:30 to 22:00, requiring flexible working to support urgent and complex care within community settings.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide clinical and professional leadership to the Children’s Palliative Care and Rapid Response Team, ensuring safe, effective, and high-quality care.
- Coordinate daily service delivery, including planned and urgent visits, ensuring staffing and resources meet patient and family needs.
- Undertake advanced assessment, care planning, and review for children and young people with complex, life-limiting, and life-threatening conditions.
- Support symptom management, rapid response interventions, and end-of-life care within community settings.
- Lead virtual clinics and proactive care planning to improve outcomes and reduce avoidable hospital admissions.
- Provide specialist advice and support to staff, children, young people, and families, promoting evidence-based practice.
About Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC)
Work Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics, and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents, and families, as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre, and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
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Contact Information
For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Rachael Williams
- Job title: Clinical Service Manager
- Email address: rachael.williams110@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07974 785 098
Paul Ashmore
Service Manager
Email: paul.ashmore@nhs.net
Telephone: 07834394840
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