Principal Duties & Areas of Responsibility Acts in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct Clinical care delivery - Provide a clinical lead and role model to other nursing staff by delivering high quality care as an expert practitioner - Undertake clinical procedures where dexterity and accuracy are required. - Maintain a safe working environment Responsibilities for patient and client care - Assesses, develops and implement specialist nursing care programmes and evaluate care and treatments using advanced clinical knowledge and clinical skills - Plan specialist nursing service provision organising and managing own workload. - Provides specialised advice contributing to the diagnosis and care of patients. Freedom to act - Makes clinical assessments and treatment decisions within clearly defined policies and protocols - Refer patients as appropriate to other members of the multi-disciplinary team - When required exercises significant clinical discretion and judgement within broadly defined clinical parameters and policies. Communication - Maintains accurate clinical and other records using the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trusts documentation - Support patients and their families communicating very sensitive, complex condition related information, ensuring they receive required information to enable them to participate on their care delivery - Liaise with other Services (as appropriate) to ensure seamless provision of care delivery Education and Training - Plans, provides and facilitates specialist training and education of learners and other junior staff within own speciality area - Actively participate in the development of own personal development plan and performance review. - Participate international, national, regional and local conferences as agreed with Consultant Dietitian and Lead Nurse. - Provide education and training to patients and their carers. - Keep up to date with developments, advances within the specialty Leadership and management - Provide leadership to the clinical team working with Consultant Dietitian, Lead Nurse develop new roles/ways of working - Investigate and respond to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events - Maintains record of workload and performance monitoring information for own practice and reviews this on a regular basis with Consultant Dietitian and Lead Nurse - Exercises a personal duty of care in relation to equipment, resource and stock control ordering and utilising equipment and supplies appropriately. - Work with Lead Nurse to lead the development of nursing practice, reflecting the CMT and Nursing Directorate business plans - Set, monitor and seek to continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care, including those standards defined in the National Benchmarks for Essential Care - Promote evidence-based practice, wherever possible - Propose, develop and implement policy, protocols and practice guidelines specific to the clinical specialty. - Contributes to the development of specialist protocols for specialist area. - Proposes policy and service change and leads the development of the same within and beyond own specialist area. - Engage users and carers views on service delivery and development. Research and Audit - Contribute to the research agenda. Participate in clinical trials as appropriate - Undertake nursing research and lead audit programmes specific to client group, treatments and developments. - Participate in clinical trials as appropriate.