Lead Nurse

Job responsibilities

We Listen, We Learn, We Lead

• Contribute to, support and promote ECCHs, strategic direction, values and culture in relation to specialist services.
• Act as a resource for health care professionals on all matters relating to community nursing.

• Understand and support the achievement of ECCH business plan objectives and performance targets, and initiate and participate in screening and needs assessment as required.
• Identify the potential for service developments, risk and deficits and inform line manager making recommendations based on specialist knowledge.
• Provide leadership and management of primary care home nursing teams.
• Organise the allocation of line managers and appraisers for nurses working within primary care home.
• Plan and organise a range of complex activities in a wide range of settings to ensure best practice is delivered across your designated area of responsibility and the wider community.
• To provide clinical leadership within the Community Care Team/s and the wider integrated Community Care teams including Primary, Social Care, and all other provider organisations to provide high standards of care to patients and where appropriate avoiding unnecessary admission to secondary care.
• Manage proactively; individual and service performance, highlighting to senior managers areas of significant non-compliance.
• To be a key driver for establishing integrated care teams both practically and behaviourally.
• Assist with the implementation of pathways and guidelines to support health care professionals in establishing patient on evidence-based therapies.
• Develop systems to monitor, evaluate and audit service quality in order to meet nationally and locally set targets and develop reporting mechanisms.
• Effectively communicate at all levels of the organisation, with a variety of health professionals, users and carers, to provide the best health outcomes.
• Maintain a high level of performance and be goal and outcome focussed when faced with opposition or when working under conditions or pressure.
• Identify potential service developments, risks and deficits and discuss with line manager, making recommendations based on expert knowledge to enhance the capacity and quality of community care.
• Monitor and maintain standards / provide benchmarking data to allow comparison with other healthcare providers.
• Participate in teaching and clinical supervision with nursing teams and other provider staff as required.
• Critically evaluate research findings, national guidelines and implement changes in clinical practice as appropriate.
• Be responsible for participating and maintaining a learning environment and maximise opportunities for education and development in the clinical area to enhance individual development and performance in the delivery of high standards of care.

My Accountability, My Responsibility

• Take responsibility for your own personal and professional development; maintain competence, knowledge and skills commensurate with role.

• Be wholly accountable for practice taking every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve knowledge and professional competence and, ensure that all aspects of professional behaviour as required within Nursing and Midwifery Council Code are followed at all times.
• Maintain legible, accurate and contemporaneous patient records in accordance with ECCH Policy and the Nursing and Midwifery Council standards for record keeping.
• Assist with the investigations of complaints, participate in the risk management process, critical incident reporting, evaluation, dissemination and change in practice.
• Be responsible for understanding, following and implementing ECCH policies and procedures, and influencing working practices to support this accordingly.
• Contribute to the clinical governance agenda through participation in clinical risk assessment and management, clinical audit.
• Create an environment conducive to effective working, respecting and supporting staff to deliver high quality clinical services.
• Ensure a high standard of record keeping is achieved in line with ECCH and professional standards.
• Take responsibility to ensure compliancy with Health and Safety Policy, Fire and Environmental Waste Regulations.

Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money

• Take responsibility for the cost effective management and use expensive and highly complex equipment, provide recommendations for effective use of resources and contribute to the effective delivery of cost improvement planning.
• Analyse, interpret compare and contrast complex information, service requirements and options ensuring the effective approaches to service delivery and team working.
• Contribute to the ongoing review of the wound care formulary and guidelines.
• Evaluate the impact of training programmes, for nurses, to ensure that they provide the necessary knowledge and skills to deliver safe and effective clinical practice.

Work Together, Achieve Together

• Establish local networks in partnership with other health and social professionals/agencies and national links with other generalists in order to develop protocols according to national and local guidelines for the safe and effective provision of community nursing services.
• Work with partners in nursing and residential care to improve the health outcomes of the residents and so prevent unnecessary hospital admissions or extended in- patient care episodes.
• Provide professional expertise and clinical leadership, acting as a resource to other professionals within and outside your own organisation, regarding clinical issues to ensure continuous service provision and inter-professional working.
• Work with ECCH Colleagues, and other partner agencies and stakeholders including the acute trust to contribute to the development and delivery of new innovative models of service delivery, ensuring a leading edge approach to service development in-line with evidence based practice.

• Work with the clinical services coordinator and education and training department to assess the clinical training needs of community nurses.
• Contribute to the coordination of caseloads in partnership with nursing team leaders to ensure the provision of a high quality care to individuals and their families or carers.,
• Work with other provider services to develop, implement and monitor healthcare governance to ensure the safety of patients, quality healthcare, continuous improvement and learning.
• All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an essential part of their job role.

• Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
• Underpinning our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture. Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered nurse Level 1 (Adult)
• BSc Nursing Practice or equivalent
• Leadership / management qualification or willing to undertake

Desirable

• Masters level study or working towards a masters level qualification.
• Specialist Practitioner Qualification- District Nursing or Community Practitioner pathway
• Health Coaching Programme
• Advanced communication skills

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Competent IT skills ability to use electronic diary and electronic clinical record systems and MS Office software
• Proven ability to problem solve
• Evidenced high standards of leadership and people management skills
• Evidenced experience of negotiating and influencing skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills including communication with different stakeholders
• Effective organisation and time management skills
• Ability to travel throughout the locality in accordance with role requirements.
• Knowledge of relevant health policy

Desirable

• Report writing skills

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours:
• (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
• Commitment to lifelong learning
• Flexible team orientated approach to work
• Willingness and ability to work across different sites
• The ability to travel across the community
• Passion and enthusiasm to deliver person centred care
• Self-motivated and solution focused

Experience

Essential

• Evidenced and relevant experience of working in a community clinical role at a management / supervisory level
• Experience of clinical audit
• Experience of multidisciplinary teamwork

Desirable

• Experience of working within primary care
• Experience of successful change management
• Experience of facilitating clinical supervision
• Experience of complaint investigation
• Experience of incident investigation

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.

UK Registration

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