Royal Free World Class Values: The post holder will offer World Class Care to service users, staff, colleagues, clients and patients alike. 1. CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES 1.1 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. 1.2 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. 1.3 Provide professional, clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and associated staff, and ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive nursing service. 2. RESPONSIBILITY FOR PATIENTS 2.1 Act as autonomous first line of contact for patients seeking advice or support. 2.2 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. 2.3 To identify outcome measures which illustrate the quality of the service with a particular emphasis on establishing ways to show patient related outcome measures. 3. RESPONSIBILITY FOR POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT 3.1 Developing innovative models of care and effective patient pathways that ensure patients receive the best possible service. 3.2 Liaise with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure seamless patient care through the development of protocols and care pathways. 4. RESPONSIBILITY FOR FINANCIAL AND PHYSICAL RESOURCES 4.1 Provide support to the team acting as an expert resource, demonstrating tenacity, drive, professional integrity, balance and perspective. 4.2 Make effective use of resources available to support and enhance patient care. 5. RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEADING AND MANAGING 5.1 Provide professional, clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and associated staff, and ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive nursing service. 5.2 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. For further information please refer to the attached JD and PS VISA SPONSORSHIP DOES NOT APPLY TO THIS ROLE