Professional Lead Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will role model high professional standards, behaviours and attitudes; raising the profile of the NMC Professional Code of Conduct and their implications for nursing practice.

Support the nursing workforce to collaborate with service users as experts in their own care and foster a culture of service users, carers and families feeling listened to and being central to service developments and the values of the Trust.

Develop and embed the nursing strategy across all clinical areas of the Trust, providing nursing leadership and support to staff in taking forward nursing developments.

You will support the nursing directorate in undertaking nursing workforce planning and redesign, including evidence based bi-annual skill mix review and regular monitoring of the nursing resource in terms of cost effectiveness along with the development and introduction of new roles.

Provide support for the delivery and reporting of the safer staffing agenda. Ensure staffing systems such as E-Rostering, temporary staffing, deployment and

redeployment are fully utilised and linked together; play a lead role in supporting the recruitment and retention of high-quality nurses who work effectively within teams.

Work in partnership with the Practice learning and development team, Head of Learning and Development, Higher education institutions and Health Education England to ensure that all students, pre-professional and those in pre and post registration training are educated and trained to the required national standards in order to meet the care needs of service users and modern clinical practice standards. This will include development, education and embedding of new roles in the services, such as Non-medical prescribing, Nursing associates and Associate practitioners.

To act as lead for learning and improvement including the review, monitoring and improvement in medication errors.

To play a lead clinical role in the delivery of quality assurance and continuous improvement. Working alongside other colleagues to raise awareness, raise standards and embed a culture which understands and values the notion of external regulation and scrutiny. This will include ensuring systems are in place across all services and disciplines to implement, evaluate and improve standards of practice and outcomes.

In addition, the post holder will deputise for the Head of Nursing, maintain their own clinical practice and actively support the leadership, governance and development of the nursing professions.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse professional qualification with substantial (extensive) post graduate experience.
• Registration with the NMC.

Experience

Essential

• Masters or demonstratable evidence of equivalent level of clinical or leadership skills and experience.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trust HQ [Hybrid working]

Leeds

LS7 3JX

Employer's website

https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)