Employer Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Queens Medical Centre
Town Nottingham
Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 27/02/2025 23:59
Critical Care Professional Nurse Advocate
Band 6
Job overview
We seek experienced Critical Care Nurses with a PNA qualification to form a PNA and well-being team for the Adult Critical Care and CCOT Directorate. The hours for this post will be shared between appropriately qualified applicants to ensure a robust service offer.
The Professional Nurse Advocate will use the A-EQUIP approach to support critical care and CCOT staff, enhancing system performance and staff/patient experiences across Nottingham City and Queens Medical Centre campuses.
Key Responsibilities:
* Deliver restorative practice services, including 1:1 and group Restorative Clinical Supervision (RCS).
* Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop and evaluate specialist services, ensuring high standards of restorative practice.
* Provide advice and support to staff at all levels, fostering cooperative relationships with other experts and services.
* Contribute to the development of clinical practice and care standards through RCS, identifying educational needs and supporting service improvement and quality initiatives.
* Offer expert nursing advice, care, and support, serving as a point of contact for staff involved in patient care.
Requirements:
* Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
* Successful completion of a Professional Nurse Advocacy Course and Critical Care course.
Main duties of the job
The Professional Nurse Advocate for Critical Care and CCOT will demonstrate inspirational, motivational and visible leadership within the workplace. This role will ensure Critical Care and CCOT staff are supported through a continuous improvement process that builds personal and professional clinical leadership, improving the quality of patient care delivered and supporting professional revalidation using the A-EQUIP (Advocating for Education and Quality Improvement) approach. The PNA will support the well-being and PNA lead in developing a robust delivery plan to provide restorative clinical supervision (RCS) by using both 1:1 and group sessions.
The PNA will support the well-being and PNA lead in producing reports and present to the senior leadership teams, recruitment and retention team, governance team and the educational team amongst others to drive innovative and positive changes for our staff development. Improving the environments will allow enhancement of the quality of care delivered, personal and professional clinical leadership and professional revalidation.
Please see the Job description and person specification for an in-depth insight into the main duties of the role.
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
* Registered Nurse (Nursing & Midwifery Council registration)
* Relevant post-basic qualification in Critical Care specialist pathway (ENB 100 or equivalent)
* Evidence of academic learning at Level 6 or equivalent
* Possession of NMC Mentoring Course
* Relevant post-basic course in the provision of A-EQUIP model of supervision.
* Completion of any local competency packages
* Maintains professional updating and awareness/CPD/revalidation
* Research training/experience
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
* Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s “We are here for you” behavioural standards
Experience
* Extensive experience at Band 5 within the acute setting, and within critical care
* Supervision of non-registered staff, pre-registration and post-basic students
* Evidence of ability to mentor
* Evidence of well-developed leadership, clinical expertise, management & time management skills
* Evidence of change management in nursing
* Demonstrate an involvement in link nurse or project work
* Ability to demonstrate negotiation skills
Communication and Relationship Skills
* Recognition of own level of competence and limitations and able to communicate these to appropriate staff
* Can minimise interpersonal conflict and barriers to communication
* Ability to convey sensitive information in an empathetic manner to patients, relatives/carers and staff.
* Able to respond to problem situations and to ensure that effective interventions are put in place
* Evidence of negotiation and influencing skills
* Demonstration of team working and ability to work within a team
Analytical and Judgement Skills
* Audit or research within the clinical area
* Providing staff with feedback on their individual performance and use of the knowledge and skills framework
* Ability to identify own learning needs
* Able to contribute to the development of implementation and monitoring of local objectives and action plans
Planning and Organisation Skills
* Demonstrate an ability to prioritise own workload and recognise, prioritise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations
* Able to contribute to the development of implementation and monitoring of local objectives and action plans
* Demonstrate an ability to supervise and support others in the prioritisation of their patient care
* Demonstrate leadership skills and ability to effectively lead a team
* Demonstrate an ability to recognise when workload and priorities of others are inappropriate and intervene as required
* Demonstrate effective time management skills and effective resource management
Physical Skills
* Physically able to perform the full range of nursing duties
* Dexterity and accuracy in undertaking clinical skills, use of equipment and documentation
* Competent and capable of using medical equipment
* Able to undertake patient manual handling manoeuvres and non-patient manual
* Evidence of moving and handling training
Other requirements specific to the role (eg be able to drive or work shifts)
* Flexible, adaptable and confident Caring, enthusiastic and well-motivated
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