Job responsibilities
1.0 Clinical Practice
The post-holder will ensure that all areas of practice adhere to all current NMC guidance.
1.1 Establish standards of nursing assessment and care and ensure these are delivered at all times by regularly monitoring and evaluating patient outcomes.
1.2 Ensures that clinical competencies within assessment are developed and evidence of ongoing clinical competency is adhered to.
1.3 Ensure that nursing care is patient focused and that patient dignity and privacy are maintained at all times.
1.4 Ensure due regard is given to the customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients and colleagues and that equal opportunities are practiced.
1.5 Support the Unit team in maintaining effective communication both written and verbal with all disciplines, patients and relatives.
1.6 Be responsible for the holistic assessment of individual patient care.
1.7 Initiate planned evidence based assessment and care, including health promotion and education.
1.8 Ensures that all clinical and legal nursing documents are completed accurately and legibly, and that their relevance is understood by junior staff.
1.9 Represents and supports patients, relatives or carers within a multidisciplinary forum, ensuring that their needs are represented and that appropriate care packages are developed.
1.10 Liaises and works in collaboration with nursing and other healthcare professions to support the patient pathway and flow through the assessment process.
1.11 Will use reflective practice as a method of ensuring that appropriate effective nursing care is delivered to each patient.
1.12 Ensure that prescribed medications are safely administered and to monitor, report and investigate all medication errors.
1.13 Ensure competency in use and safe maintenance of all medical devices within the sphere of responsibility.
1.14 Reports all incidents and near misses promptly and appropriately, investigates and implements remedial action to reduce the risk in the future
1.15 Ensures that all complaints are listened to and that issues identified are addressed, with the aim of resolving all complaints locally. The focus on prevention and local resolution of complaints must be part of the ward team philosophy.
1.16 Adheres to the infection control policy and promotes the policy with the assessment setting with all professional who are interacting in patient care.
1.17 Promote a professional image at all times and be accountable for own clinical practice.
1.18 Responsible for Quality Improvement strategy, planning and implementation within their clinical area in conjunction with the Clinical Matron.
2.1 To hold relevant post registration course.
- Venepuncture, intravenous cannulation, administers of intravenous additives, recording and interpreting12 lead EGC, male and female catheterization. Insertion and maintenance of naso-gastric tubes, CVP monitoring, Peg Feeding.
- To instigate and order haematological and biochemical blood investigations, and recognise abnormal results.
- To be able to discharge patients under nurse led protocols.
- To be able to administer medications as a non-medical prescriber or under Patient Group directives.
- Patient assessment, evaluation and education in pain management issues including access and liaison with the acute, chronic & palliative pain teams.
- To act as a clinical expert in the care of their patient cohort
3.0 Professional Leadership and Management
3.1 Responsible for the management, supervision and support of all members of the nursing team, always acting as a professional role model.
3.2 Report all serious untoward clinical incidents in the appropriate manner to the Head of Urgent care and Facilitated discharge and Chief Nurse for Integrated care or lead any investigation and implement remedial action in the clinical area
3.3 Ability to manage and support the department in a critical incident.
3.4 Ensure staff has clear understanding of the assessment pathway during meetings.
3.5 Responsible for the most effective management of the ward resources, this includes all pay and non-pay expenditure, ensuring that accountability can be demonstrated for all financial actions.
3.6 Demonstrates the ability to support the needs of the department by allocating resources effectively.
3.7 Ensure that when clinical practice or patient pathways are changed that the financial implications are monitored and reported.
3.8 To participate in and encourage team involvement in Clinical Governance and Risk Management initiatives.
3.9 Ensure all staff to have an appraisal
- Ensure confidentiality of all patient and staff information at all times.
- Act in Act in a professional manner and ensure self and other staff adheres to the work wear policy at all times.
- Deputise as appropriate for the Therapy Lead
- To ensure the effective and efficient organisation of rotas using the E-roster system where available. Ensuring the appropriate deployment and use of all grades of staff within the postholders span of control and be accountable for the level of temporary staffing usage and the associate expenditure.
- To manage the adherence to the Trust policy for booking and taking annual leave/time owing/training to enable adequate levels of cover within the team at all times.
- Be responsible for the deployment of HR policies within your sphere of responsibility including the proactive management of sickness and unauthorised absence.
- To undertake the recruitment and selection of staff to the team, assessing the skill
4.0 Education, Research Training and Development
4.1 Maintain own statutory and mandatory training requirements, and monitor those of their team.
4.2 Provide a positive learning environment for all staff.
4.3 Act as a mentor and assessor for pre-registration, post registration and unqualified staff
4.4 Maintain own professional and personal development as agreed in appraisal.
4.5 Ensure that performance feedback is provided for all staff, and that professional and personal development plans are agreed for the mentor team.
4.6 Participate in Student Nurse Education and assessment in accordance with the university requirements.
4.7 Liaise with the Head of Urgent care and Facilitated discharge and Chief Nurse for Integrated care on the preparation of annual Education plans (NMET bids)
4.8 Use all opportunities to advocate Health Promotion.
4.9 Advise Participation in Clinical Supervision.
4.10 To ensure student learners on clinical placement are appropriately supervised and assessed and have an effective learning experience
4.11 Maintain personal records of continuing professional development in order to
meet revalidation requirements.
4.12 Continually monitor standards of clinical care and lead and facilitate improvements of care, through benchmarking, audit and research.
4.13 Responsible for identifying ongoing training needs and updating where necessary. Responsible for maintaining own and others up to date evidence based skills, knowledge and competence for the role requirements.
5.0 Human Resources
Be aware of and adhere to all of the relevant Trust Policies and Guidelines e.g. sickness reporting, absence management and the uniform policy.
5.1 Be responsible for the deployment of HR policies within your sphere of responsibility including the proactive management of sickness and unauthorised absence.
5.2 To undertake the recruitment and selection of staff to the team,
