Job responsibilities
PRINCIPAL
DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Acts
in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct
Clinical care delivery
- Provide a clinical lead and role
model to other nursing staff by delivering high quality care as an expert
practitioner
- Undertake clinical procedures where
dexterity and accuracy are required.
- Maintain a safe working environment
Responsibilities for patient and
client care
- Assesses, develops and implement
specialist nursing care programmes and evaluate care and treatments using
advanced clinical knowledge and clinical skills
- Plan specialist nursing service
provision organising and managing own workload.
- Provides specialised advice
contributing to the diagnosis and care of patients.
Freedom to act
- Makes clinical assessments and
treatment decisions within clearly defined policies and protocols
- Refer patients as appropriate to
other members of the multi-disciplinary team
- When required exercises significant
clinical discretion and judgement within broadly defined clinical parameters
and policies.
Communication
- Maintains accurate clinical and
other records using the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trusts documentation
- Support patients and their families
communicating very sensitive, complex condition related information, ensuring
they receive required information to enable them to participate on their care
delivery
- Liaise with Community Services (as
appropriate) to ensure seamless provision of care delivery
Education and Training
- Plans, provides and facilitates
specialist training and education of learners and other junior staff within
own speciality area
- Provides specialist training and
education at post-graduate level within the University settings as agreed
with Matron.
- Actively participate in the
development of own personal development plan and performance review.
- Participate in national, regional
and local conferences as agreed with Lead Nurse
- Provide education and training to
patients and their carers.
- Keep up to date with developments,
advances within the specialty
Leadership and management
- Provide leadership to the clinical
team working with Lead Nurse, develop new roles/ways of working
- Investigate and respond to
accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events
- Maintains record of workload and
performance monitoring information for own practice and reviews this on a
regular basis with Lead Nurse.
- Work with Lead Nurse to promote the
development of nurses undertaking the CNO Ten Key Roles as considered
appropriate
- Exercises a personal duty of care
in relation to equipment, resource and stock control ordering and utilising
equipment and supplies appropriately.
- Work with Lead Nurse to lead the
development of nursing practice, reflecting the CMT and Nursing Directorate
business plans
- Set, monitor and seek to
continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care, including
those standards defined in the
National Benchmarks for Essential Care
- Promote evidence-based practice,
wherever possible
- Propose, develop and implement
policy, protocols and practice guidelines specific to the clinical specialty.
- Contributes to the development of
specialist protocols for specialist area.
- Proposes policy and service change
and leads the development of the same within and beyond own specialist area.
- Engage users and carers views on
service delivery and development.
Research and Audit
- Contribute to the research
agenda. Participate in clinical trials
as appropriate
- Undertake nursing research and lead
audit programmes specific to client group, treatments and developments.
- Participate in clinical trials as
appropriate.
THE
LEEDS WAY VALUES
Our
values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this
as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our
staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:
Patient-centred
Collaborative
Fair
Accountable
Empowered
All
our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values
Additionally,
the following are core values which relate specifically to this post:
Commitment to delivering high
quality evidence-based care
Commitment to working in a
multi-disciplinary team
Commitment to the specialty area,
valuing the contribution of all team members, encouraging a positive and
creative working environment
Commitment to own personal and
professional development and to the development of others within the team.
WEST
YORKSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF ACUTE TRUSTS (WYAAT)
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of
Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across
West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible
care for our patients.
By
bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West
Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating and driving
forward change to deliver the highest quality care. By working for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change.
WYAAT
is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care
Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country. The
Partnerships ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and
wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that
ambition.
INFECTION
CONTROL
The
jobholder must comply at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
Trust Infection Control policies, in particular by practising Universal
Infection Control Precautions. Hand hygiene must be performed before and
after contact with patients and their environment.
HEALTH
AND SAFETY / RISK MANAGEMENT
All
staff are responsible for working with their colleagues to maintain and
improve the quality of services provided to our patients and other service
users. This includes complying at all
times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Policies, including Health
and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed security and safer
working procedures, and reporting incidents using the Trust Incident
Reporting system
EQUALITY
AND DIVERSITY
The
jobholder must comply with all policies and procedures designed to ensure
equality of employment and that services are delivered in ways that meet the
individual needs of patients and their families. No person whether they are staff, patient
or visitor should receive less favourable treatment because of their gender,
ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.
TRAINING
AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The
jobholder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for
his/her own personal development by ensuring that Continuous Professional
Development remains a priority. The
jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role.
COMMUNICATION
& WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Lead Nurse
All grades nursing staff
Allied Health Professionals
Medical staff
Members of Clinical Management Team
Primary Care Trusts
SPECIAL
WORKING CONDITIONS
PHYSICAL
EFFORT
There
is a frequent requirement for job holder to spend a substantial proportion of
their working time sitting or standing in a restricted position and an
occasional requirement to exert moderate physical effort.
MENTAL
EFFORT
There
is a frequent requirement for the job holder to concentrate where their work
pattern may be unpredictable.
EMOTIONAL
EFFORT
The
nature of the clinical and none clinical duties will require the job holder
to be involved in distressing or emotional circumstances on a frequent basis.
