Ward based Clinical Coordinator inNorth Walsham inNorth Walsham PUBLISHED WED 6 NOV 2024

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 nurse to join Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust to work as a Ward Based Clinical Co-ordinator alongside a Band 7 Intervention Lead to join our 12-month practice driven intervention study to facilitate the Therapeutic Optimisation (THEO) participatory action research study using practice development approaches at ward level. You will be working as part of the clinical team as an experienced staff member and will focus on approaches to enhance and improve highly effective clinical interactions with colleagues, patients their families and significant others. We are looking for someone to work in collaboration with the existing ward leadership team, to be an excellent clinical role model with developing guiding and coaching skills with the patient at the centre of everything that we do.

Working as part of the existing ward clinical nursing team, the Band 6 ward based clinical co-ordinator will work in collaboration with a THEO Band 7 and with direct support from an external UEA based THEO/ PD facilitator, to co-facilitate the THEO participatory action research study. Working as a nurse, in daily clinical practice this role will be helping to support others in effectively implementing practice driven innovation at ward level. Supporting and enabling THEO across the multidisciplinary team (MDT), to maximise and enhance delivery of safe and effective care within a workplace culture of effectiveness, where person centred care is experienced by patients and their significant others.

The THEO clinical coordinator will be actively participating in collaboration with the existing ward team and facilitating and coordinating interactions to collect, analyse and report evidence at practice level, and collaborating with partners at local Trust level and working closely with Staffordshire University and the University of East Anglia (as the Academic Collaborators).

• To have NMC registration
• Be organised and motivated
• Have a range of clinical nursing experience
• Developing skills in coaching and guiding.
• Some experience in participating in clinical practice change, clinical audit and quality improvement
• Have good inter-personal skills, and experience of working with and in a multidisciplinary team

About us

• To assist in the development, implementation and evaluation of the THEO participatory action research study at ward level.
• To promote continuous development of clinical practice and effective teamworking in the delivery of patient care, encouraging innovation, improvement and appropriate changes in service delivery using facilitated practicedevelopment approaches.
• To work effectively as part of the multidisciplinary and nursing clinical team to use practice development approach to provide and capture evidence ofperson-centred clinical care delivery to patients.
• To demonstrate clinical expertise, enhanced nursing practice to enable thedelivery of high standards of person centred, safe and effective, evidence basednursing care.
• To review nursing practice and support the implementation of appropriate changes based on research/ best practice.
• To contribute to service development and evidence collection associatedwith the THEO project.
• To establish a suitable and stimulating learning environment for staff andstudents and for the ongoing professional development for all colleagues
• To maintain communication networks at all appropriate clinical andmanagerial levels.
• To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to patients.