NursingNetUK

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

KEY RESULT AREAS
PATIENT CARE, CLINICAL EXPERTISE AND CASE MANAGEMENT
1.1 Manage a delegated caseload of patients, as appropriate within the speciality, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care.
1.2 Provide clinical expertise, specialist advice and support across the whole spectrum of the service.
1.3 Adopt a range of the Chief Nursing Officer 10 key roles appropriate to client group in order to improve and streamline patient care and patient experience.
1.4 Demonstrate in depth specialist knowledge, skills and innovative practice in the specialist area, ensuring the delivery of appropriate evidence based care.
1.5 Support, assist and encourage the multi-disciplinary team in resolving complex patient problems, by the provision of new and innovative models of case management.
1.6 Demonstrate appropriate expert practice and specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This will necessitate high levels of autonomy and advocacy.
PATIENT AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT AND EXPERIENCE
2.1 Promote the philosophy of patient centred care and establish and maintain a supportive relationship with the patient and their family at all times.
2.2 Promote patient and public involvement and enhancing their experience by supporting and implementing new initiatives relating to patient centred care.
2.3 Raise the profile of patient and public involvement by embedding this within own sphere of practice.

3. PROMOTE AND ESTABLISH EFFECTIVE TEAM WORKING AND COMMUNICATION

3.1 Take responsibility for ensuring effective communication between all service providers within the speciality.
3.2 Establish and maintain good positive working relationships with the Heads of Nursing, Sister / Charge Nurse and their teams, Education and Practice Development Leads, Matrons, relevant Clinicians and General Mangers.
3.3 In collaboration with the Education and Practice Development Teams / Clinical Managers, develop and promote working partnerships between the Trust and academic staff at local Universities involved in the provision of nursing and multi professional programmes of education.
3.4 Actively participate in local, national and international networking to maintain and develop expert level of knowledge in the speciality.
3.5 Ensure that the importance and implications of education, research, and ideas are raised in appropriate forums.
4. EDUCATION, TRAINING AND PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT
4.1 Provide specialist education and training to all members of the clinical team and nursing staff within all clinical areas in collaboration with the Education and Practice Development Leads.
4.2 Actively participate in personal development through appraisal and Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) development plans.
4.3 Work with the Education and Practice Development Leads to ensure that specialist education and training meets the needs of the service, multi-professional clinical teams, patients and carers.
4.4 Demonstrate continuous evaluation of practice and make changes where appropriate, within the defined speciality.
4.5 Use Education forums and Networks proactively sharing good practice and innovation with others.
4.6 Liaise with other groups and assist with the delivery of multiprofessional and interprofessional learning.
4.7 Provide specialist education teaching, learning and mentoring for pre and post registration students when required and actively contribute to the delivery of the Universities curriculum.

5. POLICY, GUIDELINE, AUDIT AND RESEARCH

5.1 Contribute to policy making and clinical guidelines internally and externally, necessary to support the specialist nursing service.
5.2 Actively participate in audit and research and benchmarking activities to ensure effective safe and evidence based practice.
5.3 Promote and encourage nursing practice research in all relevant clinical areas supporting the UHL Non-Medical research strategy.
5.4 Provide and promote clinical excellence that reflects the Trust’s Quality and Safety Strategies.
5.5 Promote the speciality by publishing and presenting innovations and research findings locally and nationally.
5.6 Actively promote the specialist service throughout the Trust by establishing robust networks and links with Quality and Safety and Audit teams.
5.7 Act on audit and research findings to inform and change practice as appropriate.
6. RISK MANAGEMENT AND PATIENT SAFETY
6.1 Use specialist knowledge, skills and innovative practice in order to provide a high standard of patient care and maintain patient safety.
6.2 Actively promote infection prevention and control awareness using best practice to reduce the potential for cross infection.
6.3 Use programmes of effective and relevant education to promote staff compliance with policies, practices and patient safety.
6.4 Deliver new ways of working practice that benefits patient safety and the patient user experience.
6.5 As a clinical expert provide advice and support to assist with the management of complaints / investigations relating to the speciality and implement action plans or change of practices.
7. PROMOTE EFFECTIVE CLINICAL LEADERSHIP
7.1 A visible, accessible and assertive clinical expert to which staff and users can turn to for assistance, expert advice and support.

7.2 Provide a high level of professional leadership in the development and promotion of the service.
7.3 Actively contribute to operational developments relating to the speciality / nursing service, so that high quality patient focused services are promoted.
8. SPECIALITY SPECIFIC
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