Job responsibilities

Job Purpose:

1. Provide management and organisation of a clinical area, delegating the workload to the skill mixed team as appropriate and as defined by the priority/acuity of the patients.

2. Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate programmes of care.

3. Work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, meeting the needs of patients and their families / carers

4. Provide support, leadership and development of staff and quality improvements within the department within the team.

5. Provide mentoring of pre and post registration students.

Please see full job description attached.

Qualifications

Essential

• RN First level (RGN)
• District Nursing Degree (NMC) Specialist Practitioner qualification.

Desirable

• Mentorship qualification or equivalent
• 1st line management/ leadership
• Non-medical prescribing V100/V150

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrates community experience
• Experience of high-level organisational skills
• Significant clinical experience related to the setting of care
• Significant experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team including in the management of acutely ill patients.

Desirable

• Audit & Research experience
• Recognised Management experience

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential

• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues relating to specialist knowledge.
• Range of core and extended clinical skills & demonstrate clinical knowledgeable related to setting of care.
• Detailed theoretical and clinical knowledge appropriate to setting of care
• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues relating to nursing

Skills and Attributes

Essential

• Able to perform complex assessments, plan, implement and evaluate care packages.
• Wide range of essential and enhanced clinical skills
• Proven leadership skills
• Able to communicate sensitive/unpleasant information to patients, relatives and/or carers.
• Able to demonstrate initiative.
• Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships
• with colleagues across health and social care settings.
• Ability to communicate at a high level both verbally and written.
• Good IT skills.
• Risk assessment skills.
• Reflective practice skills- able to give clear and effective feedback
• The ability to work flexibly in accordance with ward / unit and Trusts needs.
• Displays compassion, sensitivity, and responsiveness to other peoples feelings and needs.
• Proven leadership skills.
• Able to communicate sensitive/unpleasant information to patients, relatives and/or carers.
• Able to demonstrate initiative.
• Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships
• with colleagues within the department, across the Trust and externally.
• Ability to teach, assess and mentor staff and pre & post registration students.
• Ability to communicate at a high level both verbally and written.
• Risk assessment skills.
• Reflective practice skills- able to give clear and effective feedback
• Demonstrates values consistent with those of the Trust.
• Able to lead, prioritise, delegate and have good organisational skills
• Able to work and lead a team, co-operating together and willing to help and encourage the value of diversity in the workplace.
• Positive and flexible attitude when supporting change.
• Respond to the changing needs of the patient in a proficient, timely and calm manner, including when same is escalated by staff.
• Demonstrates values consistent with those of the Trust.
• Ability and willingness to adopt a flexible approach to work on the occasions it may be required

Desirable

• Able to research, undertake and evaluate evidence in order to contribute to practice development.

Right to Work

Essential

• Do you currently have the unrestricted right to work in the UK?
• If appointed, will you require sponsorship under a UK work visa route (now or in the future)?
• Please note that sponsorship is not available for all roles. Sponsorship will only be considered where the post meets the relevant UK immigration requirements and where the organisation determines that sponsorship is appropriate for the role.

Attitude and Behaviours

Essential

• Ability to travel independently across the Trust.
• Ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs
• Displays care, compassion, sensitivity, and responsiveness to other peoples feelings and needs.
• Able to work as part of a team, co-operating to work together and in conjunction with others and willing to help and assist wherever possible and appropriate appreciating the value of diversity in the workplace.
• Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with others both internal and external to the organisation and with patients and their careers.
• Able to work under pressure, dealing with peaks and troughs in workload managing unpredictable service demands.
• Demonstrates values consistent with those of the Trust.
• Ability and willingness to adopt a flexible approach to work on the occasions it may be required

Relationships

Essential

• If you are related to a director or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).