Job responsibilities
Professional/Clinical
To provide strong visible leadership to all staff within the unit and across the organisation, ensuring that nursing practice is up to date, evidence based and cost effective.
To develop the unit teams, individuals and self to enhance performance, ensuring that staff training needs to meet organisational objectives are pursued through the principles of IPR and PDP and knowledge & skills framework, in accordance with Trust Policies and procedures.
To be responsible for own professional registration and ensure that all nurses working on the unit have valid NMC registration and practise in accordance with the NMC Code, Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives and in accordance to Trust policy, ensuring a robust system is in place to checking registered practitioners registration status.
Provide leadership for the implementation of the quality initiatives such as Essence of Care benchmarking, Productive Ward Project.
Ensure a strong team focus on high quality, clinically effective healthcare that meet our patients needs, is embedded in unit culture.
Create and maintain a strong culture of Infection Prevention & Control awareness & practice and ensure robust systems are in place to measure IP&C standards, celebrate & share good practice and develop & review action plans to address deficiencies.
Develop, maintain and review annually the units philosophy so that this continually reflects the aims of the team, division and organisation.
Develop and lead a team that seeks to actively resolve complaint/concerns at local level ensuring appropriate escalation of complaints, clinical incidents or near misses.
Participate in patient acuity studies measuring patient dependency and nurse to bed ratio.
Foster and embed a patient safety culture and participate in national and local patient safety work streams or campaigns to improve the patients environment and experience such as Patient Safety Thermometer.
Develop and maintain cohesive multidisciplinary working relationships which focus on individualised patient care that facilitates a care management plan and a safe and timely discharge.
Promote the organisations Trust values and annual objectives, with particular reference to the Divisional business objectives, service strategies and developments.
Contribute to the creation, implementation and evaluation of the Divisional service plans by reviewing unit performance against organisational objectives, identifying cost pressures and exceptions and proposing service developments to the Divisional Management Team.
Contribute to the implementation and evaluation of Divisional service strategies and contracts by establishing systems to monitor performance at unit level.
Manage Finance Main Duties
Secure effective resource allocation for unit activities and quality initiatives, including the updating of unit and departmental capital and revenue equipment replacement plans at regular intervals to maintain continuity of service.
Monitor and control the use of unit resources by ensuring that costs are contained within allocated budgets whilst achieving maximum value for money on all expenditures and implement a robust system for exception reporting. Monitor and control the use of unit resources by ensuring that costs are contained within allocated budgets whilst achieving maximum value for money on all expenditures and implement a robust system for exception reporting.
Manage Services Main Duties
Initiate and implement change and improvement in services and operational system to meet Divisional service strategies and contracts.
Monitor, maintain and improve service delivery against quality and functional specifications, encourage staff to share innovations and good quality practice when visited by external regulating bodies.
Participate in the development and implementation of Integrated Care Pathways within the clinical area.
Benchmark unit services against published best practices, whilst ensuring that they meet statutory standards and professional guidelines.
Identify and contribute to the Aylesford and Rigby Team innovative service development ideas and proposals in line with evidence-based practice and the principles of clinical governance.
Manage People Main Duties
Recruit and select unit staff by defining future personnel requirements, determining specifications to secure quality people, and assessing and selecting candidates against Trust Values and organisational requirements.
Develop and implement unit based accessible clinical supervision for all staff.
Monitor and evaluate sickness/absence trends and act accordingly in line with Trust policies and procedures.
Work collaboratively with the Human Resources Department to proactively manage poor attendance, lateness, capability and performance issues in line with Trust policies and procedures.
Develop teams, individuals and self to enhance performance to achieve organisational objectives and divisional service strategies.
Plan, allocate and evaluate work carried out by teams, individuals and self. Undertake role mapping to establish the levels of competence for all grades of unit/department staff. Develop and implement a performance appraisal system supported by a dynamic development programme to meet staff training needs.
Create maintain and enhance effective working relationships by involving and informing staff of service developments, performance against actual plans, and future plans honestly, timely and sensitively.
Ensure staff comply with Trust policies and procedures at all times and take appropriate disciplinary action to deal with staff who disregard these obligations in the course of their employment.
Develop and maintain a robust system for checking professional registration of nursing staff on appointment and annually thereafter comply with Trust policy.
Manage Information Main Duties
Seek, evaluate and organise information for action by analysing data relating to utilisation of resources, identifying work flow patterns and making recommendations to effect changes to meet service demands within existing constraints.
Exchange information to solve problems and make decisions by networking with unit s/departments within and outside the Division and the Trust.
Contribute towards the Divisional service plans by reviewing unit /department performance against Divisional objectives and service strategies, identifying cost pressures and proposing service developments to the Divisional management team.
Contribute towards the Divisional service plans by reviewing unit performance against Divisional objectives and service strategies, identifying cost pressures and proposing service developments to the Divisional Management Team.
Develop and maintain a robust mechanism for ensuring good communication is disseminated through the team and foster a culture of openness and candour to all patients, relatives and staff. Measure the success of communication dissemination.
For Band 6 and above
Ensure that the Trust Smoke Free Policy is adhered to and that staff, patients and visitors are signposted to smoking cessation services.
Identify any appropriate support or interventions for staff to support their wellbeing.
To abide by Infection Prevention and Control policies relevant to their area of work, and undertake the necessary level of training. This will be appraised through the KSF review process or other relevant professional review process.
To accept responsibility for the provision of effective infection prevention and control within the Trust in liaison with the Trust's Infection Control Team.
To act as a role model in applying good infection control practice and ensures compliance with all Infection Control policies.
To promote and demonstrate implementation of the Trust's Carbon Management strategy and policy, ensuring team members are fully aware of the policy and are contributing to this.
