Band 8a Lead Nurse
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £56,388.00 to £62,785.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £56388.00 - £62785.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2024 |
| Location: | Barnet, EN5 3DJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9391-24-0948 |
Summary
Act as autonomous first line of contact for patients seeking advice or support. 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. To identify outcome measures which illustrate the quality of the service with a particular emphasis on establishing ways to show patient related outcome measures. Recognises and champions innovations in nursing practice ensuring they are supported, evaluated and contribute to develop an evidence base to meet the needs of the patients, families, relatives and staff. Communicates highly complex and sensitive information to patients, carers and other staff. Able to diffuse potentially hostile and antagonistic situations with staff, patients and relatives, using highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills. Contributes to service developments and innovations across the speciality and relevant external agencies, locally and nationally. Work with the departmental key stakeholders to rationalise, develop and implement nursing documentation ensuring that practice is standardised and monitored department wide. Contributes to the trusts nursing and professional agenda and promotes the trust as an international centre of excellence and national leader in the speciality. Nationally aware of patient pathways and patient experience initiatives, and be able to implement these locally. 2. RESPONSIBILITY FOR POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT Developing innovative models of care and effective patient pathways that ensure patients receive the best possible service. Liaise with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure seamless patient care through the development of protocols and care pathways. Contribute to protocols, documentation systems, standards, policies and clinical guidelines for others to use in practice. To work with the senior management team to ensure that divisional and trust objectives are met. In conjunction with the senior management team participate in business planning cycle, identifying areas of service development, focusing in particular on those related to nursing / education / training / research activities. Contribute to organisational development projects to transform clinical services to meet the needs of world class nursing for the future. 3. RESPONSIBILITY FOR FINANCIAL AND PHYSICAL RESOURCES Provide support to the team acting as an expert resource, demonstrating tenacity, drive, professional integrity, balance and perspective. Make effective use of resources available to support and enhance patient care. 4. RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEADING AND MANAGING Provide professional, clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and associated staff, and ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive nursing service. 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. Engage in the implementation of improvements in nursing practices within own areas of responsibility in line with local and national agenda and patient feedback. To have a thorough understanding of safeguarding procedures and knowledgeable with respect to safeguarding triggers and risks. To ensure the delivery and compliance of mandatory training requirements for specialist nursing team when appropriate. 5. RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION RESOURCES Act as a resource to nursing staff in relation to the analysis of audit and research data. Contributes to the development of appropriate outcomes and service impact measures to evaluate patient response and service development needs. Ensures all information is stored in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Caldecott guidance. Identify educational and training requirements on Information Resources for all relevant staff. Process information electronically and manually. Ensure information is communicated through the appropriate trust channels as required. Oversees high standards of record keeping within areas of responsibility. 6. RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT To undertake relevant research including the measurement and evaluation of the service by the process of audit and patient satisfaction. To develop specific audits which support service improvement, or assess the benefits and outcomes following service improvements. To have a good understanding of the research process and current trends in relation to areas of responsibility. Contribute to the use of evidence to support practice and generate ideas for the potential generation of new evidence related to specialty.