The position requires a focus on clinical leadership, providing expert advice, and demonstrating innovative practice to enhance patient outcomes. Responsibilities include participating in education and training, conducting research, and developing policies that promote best practices in nursing. The Nurse Consultant will also act as a resource for complex cases, lead the clinical team in service improvements, and ensure the integration of patient perspectives into healthcare developments. This role demands a strong commitment to professional standards and the ability to foster effective relationships within the healthcare system.
Previous applicants need not apply.
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 will be expected to:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
The successful post holder will be expected to:
- 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.
- Deliver expert clinical practice
- 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.
- Act as a resource and lead for the supervision of Advanced Clinical Practice within the Trust.
- Work in collaboration with MDT colleagues actively promote and engage in teams in contributing to Clinical Pathway Groups (CPGs) and wider quality improvement work.
- 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.
- Represent the directorate at external networks and report on progress to the Associate Director.
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Clinical Responsibilities
Provide expert clinical advice to clinical staff within the service to ensure best practice standards are met.
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 of the services patients; ensuring patients benefit from a multi-disciplinary approach to their care.
Lead on on-going modernisation and new ways of working and innovation within the service(s) to improve patient outcomes.
Demonstrate expert clinical skills and knowledge that informs clinical decision making
Direct and use the results of specialist investigations to assist formulation of diagnosis and plan patient management from a range of interventions.
Undertake non-medical prescribing in accordance with the Trust non-medical prescribing policy
Refer patients to other departments or colleagues within or outside the Trust as necessary relying on own interpretation of highly complex investigation results.
To oversee and supervise others in developing their competence to confident decision making and delivery of nurse led clinics applicable to the post and speciality through empowerment and support.
Lead the development of clinical expertise, enabling clinicians to develop advanced decision making and prescribing skills.
To recognise the limits of own clinical knowledge and skills and to seek medical support whenever needed to provide safe, effective and timely patient care.
To develop nurse led care in collaboration with medical and multi-disciplinary colleagues.
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
Provide professional and clinical leadership, providing a highly visible presence ensuring the delivery of excellence in expert clinical practice, audit, research, and service and practice development agendas.
Leads the development of innovations in clinical practice that is supported, evaluated and contributes to develop an evidence base to meet the needs of patients, families, relatives and staff.
Evolve the role of the Consultant Nurse, in line with core capabilities for consultant level practice and registered professional body.
Nationally aware of patient pathways and patient experience initiatives and be able to implement these locally.
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
Participate in complex service redesign with particular emphasis on developing confident and competent clinical nurse specialists.
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of local and national objectives and in conjunction with the senior management team contribute to the strategic and business planning of the services focusing on issues related to nursing / education / training / research activities.
Interpret and evaluate highly complex information from all sources including user feedback, making informed judgements to make recommendations on improving practice
To develop innovative models of service delivery, challenging organisational and professional boundaries.
Lead the clinical team with the identification of innovations and areas for service improvement and propose and the development of policies, procedures and guidelines.
Responsibility for Education and Training
Collaborates with Service Lead and academic institutions to lead on education, research and practice and plays a leading role in the development of multi-professional research to establish an evidence base practice in the relevant specialty.
Develop staff potential, add to and transform the workforce, and help people to learn, develop and improve (in and from practice) to promote excellence.
To provide learning opportunities for nurses and other health care professionals by working alongside them, and/or via mentorship and supervision. This includes providing inter professional support for staff of all disciplines
Assess education and training requirements at individual and team level which arise from new developments and develop service training needs analysis.
Disseminate best practice through delivery of training to support organisational needs.
Evaluate professional development plans and educational effectiveness.
Responsibility for Leading and Managing
Build high-quality, compassionate relationships, turning shared values into expected patterns of behaviour to make sure all care and services are safe, effective and person-centred (focused on the individual, their needs and their choices)
Providing 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 adds to the capacity and capability of the workforce
Provide written reports or presentations to support practice development.
To provide line management to the lead nurses within the department, role modelling world class behaviours in staff and organisational management.
Responsibility for Information Resources
Act as a resource to staff in relation to the analysis of highly complex audit and research data.
Contributes to the development of appropriate outcomes and service impact measures to evaluate patient response and service development needs.
Input into electronic systems to inform management team re: audit programmes/outcomes and contribute to national intelligence on the speciality.
Responsibility for Research and Development
Participate in research and the development of an audit cycle for the team to monitor and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of service provided.
Critically analyse and synthesis of research literature. Disseminate knowledge through presentations and publication.
Develops 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.
Using and enabling evidence-based professional practice, data and audits, to continually evaluate and improving practice, creating knowledge-rich and inquiring cultures, supervising research, working in and leading interdisciplinary research and innovation programmes to contribute to the knowledge base, and adding capacity and capability in research and evaluation across the system.
Lead on activities that allow the widest access to new research, innovations, outcome indicators and ways of working that will benefit health care, including high-quality publications, professional and public engagement strategies and appropriate media.
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