Job summary
The Lead Nurse Specialist Practice role will incorporate the dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management and research.
- To lead and liaise with all key members of the multidisciplinary team to advise and support colleagues in the delivery of specialised patient care across professional boundaries.
- To work autonomously to deliver specialist clinical care appropriate to the needs of the patient group and based on principles that are research based and enhance the quality of patient care.
- To undertake nurse led clinics and to be responsible for excellent standards of nursing care to patients through the planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating nurse-led clinics and services.
- To line manage clinical nurse specialists within speciality and across boundaries.
- To lead and support with specialist nursing knowledge the development, and implementation of programmes of nursing care for individual patients and the client group as a whole.
- To contribute to the facilitation of the planning, delivery and evaluation of care pathways for a designated group of patients.
- To develop and lead educational strategies/programmes for all health care professional and service users within dermatology services, contribute to training and education within specialist area.
- To act as a visible role model and expert practitioner.
Main duties of the job
Maintain a professional behaviour at all times and promote a positive image of Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust at all times, in line with World Class Care values.
- Ensure that the needs of patients are placed at the centre of care delivery, thus achieving trust and national standards for clinical quality, safety and patient experience.
- To lead, negotiate, supervise, participate in, and manage caseload of patients within nurse led clinics.
- Provide professional, clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and associated staff, and ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive nursing service.
- Collaborate on all aspects of quality management related to the nursing and clinical area.
- Assist in the evaluation of the service and patient care, including monitoring of patient experience.
- Lead the implementation of improvements in nursing practices within own areas of responsibility in line with local and national agenda and
About us
An exciting opportunity to join our dynamic dermatology team at the Barnet and Chase Farm sites of the Royal Free Foundation Trust.
We are a tertiary service and our Dermatology provides a variety of specialised clinic across all areas of this ever growing service.
The post holder will be required to provide sound clinical expertise and provide management and leadership of Specialist Nursing Team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Act as autonomous first line of contact for patients seeking advice or support.
- Provides professional and clinical leadership, providing a highly visible and authoritative presence ensuring the delivery of excellence in core, specialist and advanced nursing practice, audit, research, and service and practice development agendas.
- To identify outcome measures which illustrate the quality of the service with a particular emphasis on establishing ways to show patient related outcome measures.
- Recognises and champions innovations in nursing practice ensuring they are supported, evaluated and contribute to develop an evidence base to meet the needs of the patients, families, relatives and staff.
- Communicates highly complex and sensitive information to patients, carers and other staff.
- Able to diffuse potentially hostile and antagonistic situations with staff, patients and relatives, using highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Contributes to service developments and innovations across the speciality and relevant external agencies, locally and nationally.
- Work with the departmental key stakeholders to rationalise, develop and implement nursing documentation ensuring that practice is standardised and monitored department wide.
- Contributes to the trusts nursing and professional agenda and promotes the trust as an international centre of excellence and national leader in the speciality.
- Nationally aware of patient pathways and patient experience initiatives, and be able to implement these locally.
2. RESPONSIBILITY FOR POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
- Developing innovative models of care and effective patient pathways that ensure patients receive the best possible service.
- Liaise with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure seamless patient care through the development of protocols and care pathways.
- Contribute to protocols, documentation systems, standards, policies and clinical guidelines for others to use in practice.
- To work with the senior management team to ensure that divisional and trust objectives are met.
- In conjunction with the senior management team participate in business planning cycle, identifying areas of service development, focusing in particular on those related to nursing / education / training / research activities.
- Contribute to organisational development projects to transform clinical services to meet the needs of world class nursing for the future.
3. RESPONSIBILITY FOR FINANCIAL AND PHYSICAL RESOURCES
- Provide support to the team acting as an expert resource, demonstrating tenacity, drive, professional integrity, balance and perspective.
- Make effective use of resources available to support and enhance patient care.
4. RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEADING AND MANAGING
- Provide professional, clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and associated staff, and ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive nursing service.
- Contribute to the workforce and financial planning for nursing and support services within own areas of responsibility and where appropriate, work collaboratively across the trust to support these initiatives.
- Engage in the implementation of improvements in nursing practices within own areas of responsibility in line with local and national agenda and patient feedback.
- To have a thorough understanding of safeguarding procedures and knowledgeable with respect to safeguarding triggers and risks.
- To ensure the delivery and compliance of mandatory training requirements for specialist nursing team when appropriate.
5. RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION RESOURCES
- Act as a resource to nursing staff in relation to the analysis of audit and research data.
- Contributes to the development of appropriate outcomes and service impact measures to evaluate patient response and service development needs.
- Ensures all information is stored in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Caldecott guidance.
- Identify educational and training requirements on Information Resources for all relevant staff.
- Process information electronically and manually.
- Ensure information is communicated through the appropriate trust channels as required.
- Oversees high standards of record keeping within areas of responsibility.
6. RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
- To undertake relevant research including the measurement and evaluation of the service by the process of audit and patient satisfaction.
- To develop specific audits which support service improvement, or assess the benefits and outcomes following service improvements.
- To have a good understanding of the research process and current trends in relation to areas of responsibility.
- Contribute to the use of evidence to support practice and generate ideas for the potential generation of new evidence related to specialty.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Act as autonomous first line of contact for patients seeking advice or support.
- Provides professional and clinical leadership, providing a highly visible and authoritative presence ensuring the delivery of excellence in core, specialist and advanced nursing practice, audit, research, and service and practice development agendas.
- To identify outcome measures which illustrate the quality of the service with a particular emphasis on establishing ways to show patient related outcome measures.
- Recognises and champions innovations in nursing practice ensuring they are supported, evaluated and contribute to develop an evidence base to meet the needs of the patients, families, relatives and staff.
- Communicates highly complex and sensitive information to patients, carers and other staff.
- Able to diffuse potentially hostile and antagonistic situations with staff, patients and relatives, using highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Contributes to service developments and innovations across the speciality and relevant external agencies, locally and nationally.
- Work with the departmental key stakeholders to rationalise, develop and implement nursing documentation ensuring that practice is standardised and monitored department wide.
- Contributes to the trusts nursing and professional agenda and promotes the trust as an international centre of excellence and national leader in the speciality.
- Nationally aware of patient pathways and patient experience initiatives, and be able to implement these locally.
2. RESPONSIBILITY FOR POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
- Developing innovative models of care and effective patient pathways that ensure patients receive the best possible service.
- Liaise with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure seamless patient care through the development of protocols and care pathways.
- Contribute to protocols, documentation systems, standards, policies and clinical guidelines for others to use in practice.
- To work with the senior management team to ensure that divisional and trust objectives are met.
- In conjunction with the senior management team participate in business planning cycle, identifying areas of service development, focusing in particular on those related to nursing / education / training / research activities.
- Contribute to organisational development projects to transform clinical services to meet the needs of world class nursing for the future.
3. RESPONSIBILITY FOR FINANCIAL AND PHYSICAL RESOURCES
- Provide support to the team acting as an expert resource, demonstrating tenacity, drive, professional integrity, balance and perspective.
- Make effective use of resources available to support and enhance patient care.
4. RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEADING AND MANAGING
- Provide professional, clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and associated staff, and ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive nursing service.
- Contribute to the workforce and financial planning for nursing and support services within own areas of responsibility and where appropriate, work collaboratively across the trust to support these initiatives.
- Engage in the implementation of improvements in nursing practices within own areas of responsibility in line with local and national agenda and patient feedback.
- To have a thorough understanding of safeguarding procedures and knowledgeable with respect to safeguarding triggers and risks.
- To ensure the delivery and compliance of mandatory training requirements for specialist nursing team when appropriate.
5. RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION RESOURCES
- Act as a resource to nursing staff in relation to the analysis of audit and research data.
- Contributes to the development of appropriate outcomes and service impact measures to evaluate patient response and service development needs.
- Ensures all information is stored in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Caldecott guidance.
- Identify educational and training requirements on Information Resources for all relevant staff.
- Process information electronically and manually.
- Ensure information is communicated through the appropriate trust channels as required.
- Oversees high standards of record keeping within areas of responsibility.
6. RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
- To undertake relevant research including the measurement and evaluation of the service by the process of audit and patient satisfaction.
- To develop specific audits which support service improvement, or assess the benefits and outcomes following service improvements.
- To have a good understanding of the research process and current trends in relation to areas of responsibility.
- Contribute to the use of evidence to support practice and generate ideas for the potential generation of new evidence related to specialty.
Person Specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential
- Registered general nurse
- Relevant first degree
- Appropriate teaching certificate or extensive teaching experience
- Advanced assessment qualification
- Evidence of recent professional / management / leadership development
Desirable
- Masters degree or working towards
- Non- medical prescribing course or willingness to undertake
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience in a senior nurse operational role in an acute NHS setting
- Proven ability to initiate audits/research & assess evidence
- Knowledge and experience of leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvements
- Experience of developing business and workforce plans in line with future service requirements
- Extensive knowledge and experience of practice and policy across a broad range of responsibilities, e.g. financial systems & budgetary control, corporate and clinical governance, health & safety and human resources
- Experience of motivating staff and improving individuals and team performance
- Able to build rapport and credibility with senior clinical and managerial colleagues
- Experience of managing employment relation issues
- Budgetary management skills
Desirable
- Experience in running nurse led clinics
Person Specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential
- Registered general nurse
- Relevant first degree
- Appropriate teaching certificate or extensive teaching experience
- Advanced assessment qualification
- Evidence of recent professional / management / leadership development
Desirable
- Masters degree or working towards
- Non- medical prescribing course or willingness to undertake
Experience
Essential
- Substantial experience in a senior nurse operational role in an acute NHS setting
- Proven ability to initiate audits/research & assess evidence
- Knowledge and experience of leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvements
- Experience of developing business and workforce plans in line with future service requirements
- Extensive knowledge and experience of practice and policy across a broad range of responsibilities, e.g. financial systems & budgetary control, corporate and clinical governance, health & safety and human resources
- Experience of motivating staff and improving individuals and team performance
- Able to build rapport and credibility with senior clinical and managerial colleagues
- Experience of managing employment relation issues
- Budgetary management skills
Desirable
- Experience in running nurse led clinics
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
