Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:
Patient Care / Safety / Quality
•    Ensures a seamless service to patients and carers from referral through to discharge, where individuals are involved in decisions about their care and treatment with privacy and dignity needs are met.
•    Maintains strong working relationships and communicates effectively with GPs, practice nurses, Social Services, Mental Health, acute / community hospital colleagues, Borough Council staff and the local voluntary sector - particularly for patients receiving shared care to ensure an effective flow of patient information  to ensure high quality care
•    Utilises a range of effective communication skills, tools and techniques that meet the needs of the patients and carers and can effectively overcome any barriers to communication and understanding, dealing wth sensitive and complex information
•    Helps to Identify and deliver service improvement opportunities to achieve quality standards and best practice
•    Supports the Clinical Lead in Investigating incidents and complaints within required timescales ensuring that learning is shared, and actions are implemented
•    Takes prompt action and escalates when professional standards fall short of standards of care delivery
•    Has clinical competency relevant to adult community nursing as the post holder may work clinically 80% of the week, through providing clinical care or providing staff with the support and guidance they need to deliver care. 
•    Monitors the safety of equipment /environment and ensure that all areas of clinical risk are identified and reported in accordance with legislation and policy as requested.
•    Undertakes and documents holistic nursing assessments of patients, including those with multiple pathology and complex health and social needs with a plan of care agreed with the patient
•    Provides skilled and effective nursing care in a compassionate, caring and professional manner
•    Recognises own limitations in the provision of clinical care and urgency of patient’s needs, referring to other health care professionals accordingly and is accountable for his/her/their own actions often without direct supervision
•    Accountable for own professional actions in line with the NMC code and local policy and guidelines

Personal and people development
•    Acts as a role model demonstrating a level of knowledge and competence of the highest professional and personal standard 
•    Responsible for the self- development of skills and competencies through participation in learning and development activities, and to maintain up to date technical and professional knowledge relevant to the post
•    Participates in own annual appraisal and undertakes continuing professional development, clinical supervision, and peer review for self to maintain and develop knowledge and skills
•    Access regular 1-1 meetings with line manager
•    Provides specialist clinical and supervisory leadership to junior team members, non-registrants, new employees, and students within the team
•    Involved in  teaching, supervising and mentoring team members, colleagues and pre-registration students undertaking formal student assessments 
•    Responsible for assessing team and individual performance against agreed service standards and individual objectives at least annually through meaningful and achievable personal development plans 
•    Keeps up to date with professional nursing and regulatory requirements, health care developments, clinical evidence, National Service Frameworks for practice, national and local policies, and guidelines to maintain up to date technical and professional knowledge relevant to the post
•    Responsible for the self-development of skills and competencies through participation in learning and development activities and continuing professional development to maintain up to date technical and professional knowledge relevant to the post
•    Involved in the effective induction, competency achievement, supervision and mentoring of new team members and supporting pre-registration student nurses
•    Supports the Clinical Lead in the operational management in line with policy and procedures.
•    Ensures compliance with mandatory training for self and the across the designated locality, ensuring action is taken where standards are not met
•    Works to resolve issues locally and at an operational level, escalating moderate and significant risks and issues in a timely manner through the appropriate systems and to the appropriate people 
•    Produce and deliver written reports and presentations as required to support communication and decision-making across the adult community nursing service
•    Supports staff on any work related issues and feedback to Clinical Lead
•    Effectively manages sickness / absence and HR issues as identified by the Clinical Lead.