Professional and Clinical Leadership
To ensure nursing practice is delivered from an accepted evidence base and in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct, Mental Health Act, Community Care Legislation and the policies and procedures of Pennine Care.
To provide a learning leader role and a focus on the learning requirements for staff, commissioning learning and acting as an authority on practice improvement.
To promote developments in nursing within the Inpatients Services in line with the Trust's 5 year plan and overarching quality strategy.
To establish a forum to offer support and clinical supervision to the in-patient team.
To be a visible and pro-active clinical leader and role model within the multi-disciplinary team and actively participate in the delivery of clinical issues care at ward level including clinical risk assessment.
To support the service area in achieving clinical governance objectives by assisting in individual service reviews, ensuring action plans are formulated and best practice is shared.
Maintain own skills and clinical credibility by appropriate updates.
To undertake clinical work as a way of measuring standards and identify areas of concern and excellence.
To keep up to date with current clinical practice for own area of work.
Support ward staff in the management of complex cases.
Act as a resource to all staff.
Ensure and promote research-based practice.
To participate in audit activities that support the improvement of Nursing Practice and care standards.
To lead or participate in programmes of work directed by Service Line Groups.
To work collaboratively with the nursing team to develop processes that ensure patients, their carers and families are directly involved in decisions which affect their care.
Ensure that patient care records are multidisciplinary and that the standard of record keeping, patient assessment, care planning, risk assessment and management are delivered in accordance with the Care Programme Approach.
To initiate patient focused interventions that recognise the diverse social, cultural, religious and spiritual needs of the individual.
Ensure that Quality Assurance, Governance and Risk Management Strategies are implemented at ward level. To develop and monitor any action plans arising from Incident reporting.
Organisation and Environment
In conjunction with Ward Managers, develop and ensure that high standards are maintained throughout in-patient services in relation to a clean environment, catering standards and infection control, paying particular attention to patients privacy and dignity, and taking the appropriate action if problems arise.
Work with Infection Control Nurse and Ward Managers to ensure that robust systems are in place to minimise the risk of hospital acquired infection and maximising measures of control of infection spread.
Promote the involvement of service users, relatives and carers and advocates in the evaluation and development of services acting as the main point of contact for the PALS Officer.
To investigate complaints and clinical incidents relating to Nursing Practice within the in-patient wards.
Work with all members of the ward teams including when necessary during unsocial hours.
Education and Training
To work with all relevant parties to enhance the wards learning environment to support the training of pre-registration nurses, preceptorship programmes and trained staff competencies.
To commission, develop and promote learning networks that ensure best practice is in place and learning from incidents integral to practice improvements.
This job description is not exhaustive, but is intended to give an overall picture of the role. Other duties within the general scope of the post may be required from time to time. The duties of the post and job description can be reviewed through the agreed process.
General Duties of all post holders
To undertake any other reasonable duty, which is appropriate to the band, when requested by Senior Staff.
To be familiar with and comply with all Trust and departmental policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines.
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