Community Care Division, Urgent Care has an exciting opportunity for a motivated, enthusiastic nurse to provide leadership and oversight to our clinical teams, working in partnership with service users, carers and other key stakeholders to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.
Every year our staff deliver care to thousands of patients and at the same time they will be talking to their families, carers and their communities. These hundreds of thousands of interactions mean that our staff are best placed to understand patients' holistic health and social needs, including education, prevention and self-care.
This is a key role in the division and the successful post holder will provide strategic clinical leadership using the most up-to-date and evidence-based theory and practice and offer expert clinical advice for service users, carers, staff and other professionals.
The post holder will demonstrate advanced competence in highly complex decision making, assessment and the management of clinical needs within In Patient Services.
The post holder will also work in partnership with service users, carers and other practitioners to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.
Main duties of the job
1. Evaluate existing nursing practice through audit and evaluation of expected practice standards.
2. Embrace a culture of continuous learning and service development utilising Patient Safety Incident Response Framework techniques and analysis of key safety indicators.
3. Value the experience of our service users, carers and workforce to inform and drive service improvement initiatives.
4. Support the Head of Nursing with the implementation delivery and commitment to the service line patient experience strategy.
5. Be innovative in thinking with a passion for clinical excellence, influencing and co-producing strategies that address identified areas for improvement.
6. Support the Head of Nursing and Assistant Director of Nursing in shaping and developing relevant policy and procedure.
7. Assist the ongoing review and development of inpatient clinical pathways in keeping with National Standards and Evidence-based interventions for service users across the Division.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job responsibilities
1. Work as senior clinical nurse in Community Care Division.
2. Lead/facilitate on discharge planning from in-patient areas.
3. Formulate, implement and evaluate nursing interventions which support the clinical pathway for patients in the Community Care Division.
4. Enhance service user experience by monitoring and developing service user feedback.
5. Lead on the development and evaluation of policies/protocols for advancing nursing practice in the Community Care Division.
6. Demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills within a defined area of expertise.
7. Critically appraise, evaluate and apply knowledge of theoretical frameworks and research evidence within a specialist area of practice.
8. Liaise with other services as required.
9. Evaluate nursing practice through audit of service and practice standards, developing and managing strategies that address any shortfalls.
10. Ensure the development and delivery of relevant training programmes that reflect service need and development.
11. Ensure supervision and reflective practice standards are adhered to and address shortfalls.
12. Ensure the PDP process is robust, ensuring systems are in place to address to ensure nurses have the skills and capabilities to deliver high standards of care.
13. Provide verbal or written reports as requested.
14. Identify areas for service development in your area of responsibility.
15. Support the ward-based clinical leads in monitoring, auditing and developing clinical practice in line with the business plan and service development requirements.
16. Adhere to Trust Policies reporting to the Community Care Division management team any failures in adherence to Trust Policy.
17. Contribute to the development of Trust Policies and local Guidelines.
18. Maintain the high standards in clinical expertise that this role requires.
19. Maintain, monitor and present data relating to the role.
20. Be consistent and active in evaluating the effectiveness of the role.
21. Ensure the development and promotion of nursing/clinical research.
22. Participate in clinical research as necessary whilst ensuring adherence to ethical practice.
23. Participate in service meetings.
24. Offer and participate in regular systematic supervision.
25. Establish priorities and organise workload to ensure effective use of time.
26. Ensure systematic records of treatment and progress are kept, and that written reports are provided for relevant returns.
27. Produce full evaluation of service and its impact on an annual basis.
28. Support the Divisional Directors and deputies in delivering required objectives and developing the Community Care Division nursing strategy.
29. Participate in on-call Rota and the duties that this entails.
30. Take on additional duties/projects as required by the division.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Professional Registration e.g. Registered Nurse
* Educated to degree level or equivalent knowledge of operating at a degree level for a substantial period of time
* Significant experience in clinical practice at a senior level
* Evidence of post registration study/continuing professional development
* Ability to evidence the required core competencies at senior management level
* Educated to master's degree level or equivalent experience
Knowledge
* Experience of leading flu campaign
* A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
* The post holder would be expected to have abilities in delivering innovation and quality in clinical practice, demonstrating leadership skills, and the delivery of clinical developments that have tangible results for patients.
* Experience of promoting clinical effectiveness & standards
* Experience in training and teaching expertise in applied settings
* Ability to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and critical judgement.
* In-depth knowledge of clinical care with evidence of post-registration development activity.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Commitment to service user involvement
* Ability to work autonomously in a self-motivating style
* Excellent leadership and communication skills
* Ability to reflect on experience & generate a learning culture
* Ability to undertake research and a record of scholarship
* Ability to disseminate in a professional manner to a range of professionals
* Highly effective interpersonal skills and be a recognisable role model for staff and patients
* Articulate and effective communicator
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.
Assistant Director of Nursing Urgent Care
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