Neighbourhood Nursing Coach/Locality Nurse Manager | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 01 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,698 - £65,095 p.a inc. HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EU |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6273597/196-NM11570 |
Summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic clinically experienced senior nurse who can support, lead and manage our Neighbourhood Nursing Teams including Community Matrons.
As a practising clinician and manager to ensure the provision of high quality, integrated and innovative patient centred healthcare by providing line management, professional leadership, advice and guidance to locality nursing staff. To be a key member of the operational management and development team within community nursing contributing ideas and innovative practice to moving the service forwards.
You will be responsible for the day to day operational management and clinical leadership of your area of responsibility ensuring that the teams meet expected quality standards, objectives, KPI's and maintain their clinical expertise.
You will be required to be flexible and adaptable and work across different sites and teams as needed with an ability to demonstrate a creative approach to solving problems and empowering teams.
This role involves active clinical practice alongside management and visible leadership within teams.
Advert closing date: 12th May 2024
Proposed Interview date: 20th May 2024
You will be responsible for the day to day operational management and clinical leadership of the area of responsibility. Duties fall into the following key areas: Performance management, risk management and clinical governance, professional leadership and staff management, department and staff organisation, strategy and service improvement, financial management, research, education and training and professional standards and patient experience.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
When you join GSTT, you are joining a family. We are committed to looking after the physical, emotional and mental health of all of our staff and have a number of different schemes to promote staff wellbeing.
We know that working shifts and juggling life can be hard and at GSTT we want to ensure that our staff are given support to help them achieve a healthy balance.
From 24 hour free counselling, to reduced membership at our onsite gym and swimming pool, there is something for everyone.
We have a flexible working policy that encourages staff to have conversations with their managers about their individual circumstances ensuring that all requests are given fair consideration. Our ward managers receive training from our amazing e-roster team to help them create equitable staff rotas. These are monitored by the nursing workforce team to ensure that there is safe staffing across clinical areas and also to ensure that all staff are working reasonable shift patterns.
Professional Leadership and Management
• Provide a highly visible presence, and a coaching and supportive leadership style which is consistent with the Trust values, building and maintaining effective working relationships with managers, staff and external organisations;
• To develop strong networks internally and externally to ensure that best practice is applied within the organisation and that opportunities for development and innovation are maximised;
• Support the teams and the trust in reaching its vision of excellence in everything it does by leading and promoting equal opportunities, fairness, equity and inclusion through best practice working, monitoring, training and evaluation;
• Have an understanding and follow the trust priorities, values and behaviours;
• Understand the structure and departments in the trust and how to navigate through them;
• Ensure continuing, personal and professional development, taking ownership and accountability for staying up-to-date;
• Ensure the day to day running of the team is efficient, effective and safe;
• Ensure that sickness absence, capability, disciplinary and performance matters are managed appropriately and effectively.
Clinical Governance
• Understand national and trust policies and procedures, supporting and coaching teams in the implementation and processes involved in following them. Lead the teams in providing the assurance needed at service, directorate and organisational level that teams are providing safe and effective care, the service is meeting it’s KPI’s safety and quality standards;
• Work jointly with business support to monitor necessary reports and databases to ensure robust clinical governance is in place. Working with the teams to ensure a robust clinical governance and assurance systems are in place in all areas to evidence and demonstrate KPI’s and quality and performance standards;
• Discuss with teams the data provided to them by business support to ensure productivity and efficiency is at its highest;
• Ensure that the team is meeting its data quality and performance and quality indicators through monitoring, support, data collection and facilitating quality team discussions;
• Provide communication to the teams where relevant from the trust to ensure teams are aware of trust initiatives, policy changes and important events;
• To ensure the team undertakes benchmarking, audit, research and evaluation as required ensuring that they undertake and implement activity relating to improving care and that the data is submitted on time;
• Facilitate discussions within teams to ensure patient safety and robust safeguarding processes and procedures are in place.
Clinical
• Must be an expert practitioner and able to support the teams with clinical guidance;
• Support the teams with complex patient discussions to ensure safety and best practice is maintained for the patients;
Undertake at least a half day a week in face to face clinical practice;
• Ensure that teams and individuals are competent to meet the full needs of patients and to deliver evidence-based practice;
• Ensure that teams follow clinical policies within the trust, facilitate team discussions to identify what can be locally adapted;
• Support the team when clinical escalation occurs and liaise with the Clinical Nurse lead to ensure patient safety is paramount.
Service Development
• Support the trust in the development of a Neighbourhood Nursing model liaising with stakeholders and management within the trust to increase awareness and assist in making improvements to the model;
• Provide and support external trusts and departments who are interested in the model;
• Support and coach the teams in change management and encourage ideas to be discussed;
• To contribute to the business planning, process and support the transformation of teams to a Neighbourhood Nursing model by contributing to the workforce planning, service improvement and development.
Education, Training and Mentorship
• Participate in relevant Neighbourhood Nursing training where necessary and relevant, support other coaches in this field;
• Participate in a network of coaches, internal and external, to offer and receive support within the Neighbourhood Nursing model and general coaching;
• Undertake any relevant coaching training or events within the trust;
• Provide support or training to external departments or areas requiring Neighbourhood Nursing knowledge or training;
• Liaise with the Neighbourhood Nursing teams to ensure GSTT NN frameworks are understood and followed;
• Liaise with the teams to ensure they are aware of how to access training and development within the trust and their responsibilities. Monitor mandatory training and ensure teams are meeting all PDR and mandatory training requirements;
• Support team members with the implementation of the career framework, when required, for nurses to progress through agenda for change spine points;
• Ensure continuing, personal and professional development, taking ownership and accountability for staying up-to-date.
Values and Behaviours
• To act as a role model and motivate team members in providing high standards of care;
• Act as a heatshield to the teams by minimising contact to the team from external sources tactfully and professionally;
• Follow and promote the trust values and behaviours to a high standard;
• Ensure mental health and well-being is maintained within the teams and that teams have the support required.
Please see attached job description for full details.
This advert closes on Sunday 12 May 2024