Nurse Consultant 8b-Virtual Wards Warrington and Halton
Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
We have a great opportunity for an enthusiastic Nurse Consultant to join our Virtual Ward Team for Warrington & Halton. If you want to lead the delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective care in the community, then we need you.
As a Nurse Consultant, you will be expected to:
1. Work autonomously at an advanced level to provide clinical assessment, interventions, and pathways for patients within the service(s). This is a key post within a specialist area and will have a clear role in defining, shaping, delivering, and developing the services.
2. Provide clinical expertise in professional practice and independent decision-making in complex and unpredictable situations to incorporate both expertise and evidence-based practice across pathways, services, organisations, and the system, working with service users, communities, and partners.
3. Act as an innovator, motivator, key change agent, and role model to support and influence clinical pathway design and redesign within the services including quality improvement, implementation of national initiatives, service reconfiguration, and new digitally enabled models of care.
Main Duties of the Job
The successful postholder will be expected to:
1. Work closely with the Associate Director, Director of Nursing, Operational Manager, Clinical Nurse Specialists, patients, and wider MDT teams to develop a service responsive to the needs of patients and staff.
2. Deliver expert clinical practice.
3. Lead service design and development of the service, empowering the clinical team to meet the needs of the local population in line with key objectives outlined in local and national policy.
4. Act as a resource and lead for the supervision of Advanced Clinical Practice within the Trust.
5. Work in collaboration with MDT colleagues to actively promote and engage in teams contributing to Clinical Pathway Groups (CPGs) and wider quality improvement work.
6. Make a significant contribution to the clinical governance agenda by ensuring practice is evidence-based and through the development of staff competence at all levels.
7. Represent the directorate at external networks and report on progress to the Associate Director.
About Us
Flexible working will be considered for all roles.
Unfortunately, we do not hold a sponsor licence for working Visas.
At Bridgewater, our PEOPLE values shape how we deliver our NHS services in your local community. They help us deliver our mission to improve local health and promote wellbeing in the communities we serve.
Here at Bridgewater, our shared values flow through the organisation:
* P - Person-centred: We are passionate about individual needs and promote independence in the healthcare we provide.
* E - Empowered: We empower our people and encourage new ideas to deliver and create improvements in community care.
* O - Open and Honest: We behave in a way that develops relationships based on trust, openness, honesty, and respect.
* P - Professional: We support our people, so everyone has the right skills and training to deliver outstanding patient care.
* L - Locally Led: We are always learning about our communities and show great pride in being a local provider of health and care.
* E - Efficient: We use our resources wisely to provide sustainable and value for money healthcare for our patients.
Job Responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities
1. Provide expert clinical advice to clinical staff within the service to ensure best practice standards are met.
2. Demonstrate clinical expertise in practice, working in collaboration and undertaking complex planning with the appropriate multi-disciplinary groups to meet the specific needs of all the services' patients; ensuring patients benefit from a multi-disciplinary approach to their care.
3. Lead on ongoing modernisation and new ways of working and innovation within the service(s) to improve patient outcomes.
4. Demonstrate expert clinical skills and knowledge that informs clinical decision making.
5. Direct and use the results of specialist investigations to assist formulation of diagnosis and plan patient management from a range of interventions.
6. Undertake non-medical prescribing in accordance with the Trust non-medical prescribing policy.
7. Refer patients to other departments or colleagues within or outside the Trust as necessary relying on own interpretation of highly complex investigation results.
8. Oversee and supervise others in developing their competence to confident decision making and delivery of nurse-led clinics applicable to the post and specialty through empowerment and support.
9. Lead the development of clinical expertise, enabling clinicians to develop advanced decision making and prescribing skills.
10. Recognise the limits of own clinical knowledge and skills and seek medical support whenever needed to provide safe, effective, and timely patient care.
11. Develop nurse-led care in collaboration with medical and multi-disciplinary colleagues.
12. Act in accordance with Professional body scope of practice and multi-professional consultant level capabilities framework, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct and Scope for Expanded Practices for Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors.
Responsibility for Patients
1. Provide professional and clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of excellence in expert clinical practice, audit, research, and service and practice development agendas.
2. Lead the development of innovations in clinical practice that are supported, evaluated, and contribute to developing an evidence base to meet the needs of patients, families, relatives, and staff.
3. Evolve the role of the Consultant Nurse in line with core capabilities for consultant level practice and registered professional body.
4. Be nationally aware of patient pathways and patient experience initiatives and be able to implement these locally.
5. Ensure patients are at the centre of all pathway development work and play a pivotal role in improvement. Challenge professional and organisational boundaries in the interests of improving patient care and health outcomes.
Responsibility for Policy and Service Development
1. Participate in complex service redesign with particular emphasis on developing confident and competent clinical nurse specialists.
2. Demonstrate a thorough understanding of local and national objectives and contribute to the strategic and business planning of the services focusing on issues related to nursing / education / training / research activities.
3. Interpret and evaluate highly complex information from all sources including user feedback, making informed judgements to make recommendations on improving practice.
4. Develop innovative models of service delivery, challenging organisational and professional boundaries.
5. Lead the clinical team with the identification of innovations and areas for service improvement and propose the development of policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Responsibility for Education and Training
1. Collaborate with Service Lead and academic institutions to lead on education, research, and practice and play a leading role in the development of multi-professional research to establish an evidence base practice in the relevant specialty.
2. Develop staff potential, transform the workforce, and help people to learn, develop, and improve (in and from practice) to promote excellence.
3. Provide learning opportunities for nurses and other health care professionals by working alongside them, and/or via mentorship and supervision.
4. Assess education and training requirements at individual and team level which arise from new developments and develop service training needs analysis.
5. Disseminate best practice through delivery of training to support organisational needs.
6. Evaluate professional development plans and educational effectiveness.
Responsibility for Leading and Managing
1. Build high-quality, compassionate relationships, turning shared values into expected patterns of behaviour to ensure all care and services are safe, effective and person-centred.
2. Provide direct advice, consultancy, and expertise to individuals and interdisciplinary teams in a wide range of situations, including expertise across the system to achieve a significant impact across the general population and add to the capacity and capability of the workforce.
3. Provide written reports or presentations to support practice development.
4. Provide line management to the lead nurses within the department, role modelling world-class behaviours in staff and organisational management.
Responsibility for Information Resources
1. Act as a resource to staff in relation to the analysis of highly complex audit and research data.
2. Contribute to the development of appropriate outcomes and service impact measures to evaluate patient response and service development needs.
3. Input into electronic systems to inform management team regarding audit programmes/outcomes and contribute to national intelligence on the specialty.
Responsibility for Research and Development
1. Participate in research and the development of an audit cycle for the team to monitor and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of service provided.
2. Critically analyse and synthesise research literature. Disseminate knowledge through presentations and publication.
3. Develop a knowledge-rich and inquiry culture across the service and system that contributes to research outputs and has a positive effect on development, quality, innovation, increasing capacity and capability, and making systems more effective.
4. Lead activities that allow the widest access to new research, innovations, outcome indicators, and ways of working that will benefit healthcare, including high-quality publications, professional and public engagement strategies, and appropriate media.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Teaching Accreditation or equivalent
* Masters degree / Advanced Clinical Practice
* Non-Medical Nurse Prescribing V300
* Significant demonstrable experience of clinical practice in a senior role
* Research qualification
* Accredited Management Training Course
Right to Work
* Do you have the right to stay and work in the UK without sponsorship? (Share-codes will be checked if applicable), please state this on your application form.
Skills & Attributes
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
* Excellent report writing and presentation skills
* IT literate
* Ability to network across organisations
* Ability to influence and motivate others
* Negotiating skills and ability to resolve conflict
* Ability to make decisions and be accountable for them
* Able to demonstrate a broad but in-depth knowledge of health policy in relation to nursing practice
* Able to challenge current practice in a non-threatening manner
* Able to co-ordinate the completion of a number of projects simultaneously
* Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
* Ability to compile, analyse and disseminate complex information.
Job Specific Requirements
* The ability to travel independently across the Trust
* The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs
* Highly motivated
* Objectivity
Experience
* Ability to demonstrate significant expert clinical practice experience including responsibility for case management, developing clinical pathways, leading service provision, and developing staff in the clinical environment
* Evidence of strategic system leadership
* Highly developed physical skills when providing patient/client care
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Evidence of innovative practice that involves research or audit.
* Evidence of research experience.
* Evidence of managing people
* Experience of multi-agency working
* Demonstrable achievement in:
o Changing clinical practice
o Developing professional staff
o Organisational change
o Leadership
o Teaching
o Professional management
* Experience of working with academic institutions
* Experience of public speaking
* Ability to work autonomously, working to board occupational policies where interpretation is a post-holder responsibility.
* Knowledge of broad occupational policies that impact on the service(s) with the ability to interpret these to the organisation/service(s)
* Ability to use moving and handling techniques when undertaking clinical care of patients
* Able to concentrate for frequent periods when implementing care, reviewing documentation, planning training, etc. where the working pattern may be unpredictable.
* Able to work in frequent distressing environments due to the clinical nature of the role/service(s)
* Able to work in an environment with frequent unpleasant working conditions due to the nature of the role/service.
Internal Relations
* If you are related to a director or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship in your application form.
Employment
* This is an internal only vacancy for staff employed at Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust or Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Please confirm that you are currently employed by one of these Trusts.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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