South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
Applications for this vacancy are restricted to current Trust employees only.
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust have an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse to support the Health Pathways project. The project will see a registered nurse with senior experience at band 6 / 7 level to work alongside the Deputy Medical Director as a clinical editor leading the implementation of the Health Pathways project. The successful applicant will have excellent IT skills and a good working knowledge of urgent and emergency care pathways.
The post holder will be involved in identifying, gathering, editing, and maintaining the clinical content on the Trust's Health Pathways website. The project will involve negotiating local consensus of each pathway and working with regional colleagues. Implementation of the Health Pathways website will further involve engagement work with local colleagues to ensure the pathways are utilised.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be released from their current role for one day per week, which can be negotiated flexibly with the existing line manager to ensure the project work can be undertaken alongside existing duties/shifts without compromising care. The base is likely to be at Sunderland Royal Hospital but will work across both Sunderland and South Tyneside acute hospital sites and community services; however, flexibility can be offered around the preferred base. The post holder will manage their own diary, routinely working one day during normal working times (Mon-Fri, day shift), though some degree of flexibility may be required.
Job responsibilities
A Hospital Health Pathways Clinical Editor is an experienced nurse with an advanced level of knowledge of pathways of care into and through our organisation. The Clinical Editor will:
* Identify, gather, edit, validate, and maintain the clinical content published on their local Health Pathways website.
* Negotiate each pathway as a local consensus clinical agreement for their region.
* Ensure that the Health Pathways website is used by and useful to clinicians.
* Exercise accountability as set out in the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code (NMC, 2015).
* Work with the local Health Pathways programme team to localise and develop pathways and participate in work groups.
* Gather and check information about local practices for clinical presentations, including assessing and managing patients, and requesting services on their behalf.
* Ensure pathways meet the information needs of their wider local health system, including the key target audience of acute clinical teams.
* Localise pathways efficiently by making only the changes necessary to reflect local practices and information needs.
* Provide complete, accurate, and unambiguous clinical information.
* Apply the guidance set out in the Health Pathways Style Manual.
* Meet with subject matter experts and work with them when localising or developing pathways to develop consensus on care.
* Seek review by, and feedback from, other stakeholders in the health system when localising or developing pathways.
* Communicate effectively with technical writers at Streamliners via phone, Dot, and other channels.
* Champion the expectations and standards required to make Health Pathways useful to general practice and hospital teams.
* Champion Health Pathways to clinical colleagues.
* Be responsible to the senior clinical editor with professional accountability to the Chief Nurse Informatics Officer.
* Provide a simple and clear process from complex information.
* Develop an understanding of the relationships between services across the continuum of care, including general practice, other community services, and secondary care systems.
* Understand and articulate the flow of patients through their local health system.
* Know the key providers and individuals in their health system and ensure good engagement with key staff in their involvement in Health Pathways.
* Demonstrate good judgement, understanding when to compromise and negotiate and when to ask for senior advice.
* Maintain focus and momentum when dealing with slow-moving pathways.
* Lead peers and make decisions within a supported framework.
* Adhere to STSFT Uniform Policy and reinforce this with others.
* Ensure equality in healthcare within the sphere of responsibility.
* Be professionally accountable for all aspects of own work.
* Maintain an electronic portfolio in line with revalidation (The Code, NMC 2015).
* Attend all mandatory training in line with STSFT policy.
* Be proactive in developing own and others' practice, providing both formal and informal teaching where appropriate.
* Participate in clinical supervision using an appropriate model in line with nursing and midwifery policies.
* Demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills appropriate to the role.
* Keep up to date with contemporary developments within both nursing and specialty.
* Make clinical judgements involving a range of facts and situations which require analysis or comparison of a range of options, e.g., following procedures for nurse-led discharge.
* Be proactive in contributing to quality improvement within the Trust.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
* Advanced specialist knowledge and skills within urgent and emergency pathways of care.
* Effective presentation/report writing skills.
* Thorough understanding of contemporary nursing issues.
* Evidence of continuous professional development.
* Knowledge of how to facilitate learning.
* Knowledge of current professional and clinical governance issues.
* Knowledge of research and clinical audit.
* Knowledge and experience of handling complex relationships and interpersonal dynamics.
* Counselling and appraisal skills.
* Evidence of competency in relation to nursing practices appropriate to the post.
* Time management.
* Ability to assess, deliver, evaluate, and benchmark quality care.
* Qualification in specialty.
Qualifications
* Degree in nursing studies or relevant clinical degree (UK equivalent).
* Postgraduate level study, or equivalent specialist study/experience.
* Leadership and Management Course.
* Project management course.
Physical Skills
* Carrying teaching equipment such as laptop, stationary, etc.
* Manual dexterity specifically keyboard skills.
Experience
* Extensive post-registration experience, some of which will be at a senior level with experience in urgent and emergency pathways.
* Experience of care delivery.
* Experience of leading a team.
* Evidence of leading innovation in practice.
* Evidence of leading change management.
* Evidence of practice development.
* Budget Management.
* Project management.
* Experience in conducting research and critiquing clinical evidence.
* Experience in implementing quality frameworks.
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
£46,148 to £52,809 a year Full time pay range.
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