Nurse Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

Leadership and Management

Work autonomously to plan own work schedule plans, in view of daily and weekly management responsibilities along with leadership and supervisory aspects of the role.

Supervise the professional and clinical work of nursing staff within the clinical area allocating work effectively, considering skill and competency of staff and patient requirement and delegate the delivery of care where appropriate, ensuring staff are using evidence-based practice.

Take responsibility for effective rostering of staff to ensure that the clinical area has effective skill mix and staffing levels to meet demand; and that staff health and well-being is a key consideration underpinning the rosters produced.

Take responsibility for the procurement and maintenance of physical assets and specialist supplies for the ward/clinical area, ensuring cost effectiveness.

Maintain, monitor and evaluate standards ensuring evidence-based quality care is provided by the clinical team and respectfully challenge/take appropriate action when care falls below the expected standards.

Take responsibility for the environment of care, ensuring infection control policies and procedures are in place and participate in relevant monthly audit and act upon the results.

Support a culture for learning and development through promotion of a reflective approach to practice and utilising a supportive clinical supervision framework in support of team members as appropriate.

Deal with complex clinical and managerial situations that arise, analysing data and information, seeking appropriate help, and making decisions in relation to patient risk and care and take appropriate action.

Seek appropriate advice/alert agencies when there are any concerns regarding potential/actual risk to any patient or their dependents e.g., child safeguarding, domestic violence, protection of the vulnerable adult, mental capacity, and deprivation of liberty.

Service and quality improvement

Maintain and monitor the standard and quality of care delivered in the clinical area and respectfully challenge poor practices as appropriate. Escalate immediate/ significant/persistent quality concerns to the Matron and/or taking immediate actions, as appropriate.

Maintain and/or seek to improve standards of the care environment, including environmental cleanliness through participation in multi-disciplinary monitoring of the estate and cleaning specification within the clinical area.

Support the Matron by providing accurate and timely information to daily patient flow meetings, taking the appropriate actions to ensure effective patient flow through the ward/clinical area.

Act consistently within legislation, policies and procedures and other quality approaches relevant to working in clinical practice, always supporting, and enabling others to also practice to the same standards.

Deal with patient and relative concerns, complaints, and incident reports openly and honestly, in line with policy, undertaking initial/full investigations and ensuring immediate action plans are initiated as required to safely deal with situations arising.

Develop and implement improvement plans for the ward/clinical area in line with Trust quality improvement goals.

Ensure up to date Key Performance Indicators are displayed within the ward/clinical area. Use patient/relative feedback to continually improve practice and communication.

Communications

Develop and maintain good interpersonal relationships with the clinical specialists from across nursing and the wider multi-disciplinary team, working in partnership to meet the patient needs and achieve nationally agreed standards.

Establish and maintain effective team communication mechanisms using a range of methods to ensure that all staff have access to the information made available to them.

Practice, and role model, excellence in patient advocacy and liaison.

Establish respectful and effective relations and communication networks with internal and external agencies.

Ensure there are effective communication systems in place to enable staff to participate in effective two-way communications on developments across the Trust. Ensure effective handover of patients between shifts/health care professionals, effectively using a range of communications aids such as verbal handover/written documentation/referral letters and requests.

Provide both verbal and written reports when required.

Always promote excellence in professional/patient care documentation.

Finance and resources

Demonstrate a sound knowledge of ward/clinical area resource costs and adopt a cost-conscious approach to the utilisation of such resources, identifying and taking forward areas for cost reduction.

Work within the agreed budget for the ward/clinical area, demonstrating an excellent understanding of financial value of the resources utilised within the clinical area and approaches to ensure best value for money.

Take full account of the requirement to effectively use the available staffing resource whilst considering the requirements to ensure staff well-being is promoted, and responsible for planning and scheduling duty rotas, annual leave, study leave, time in lieu; verifying the ward/clinical area nurse staffing roster; monitoring absences and the use of temporary staff, in line with Trust workforce policies.

Personal and people development and people management

Manage and ensure the well-being of staff through effective appraisal, roster management, recruitment and selection, fair and compassionate staff management (in line with Trust workforce policies) and the supervision of learners.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• oRegistered Nurse (Adult) with current NMC Registration
• o1st Degree in Nursing or related health topic or willingness to work towards
• oRecognised teaching/mentorship qualification

Desirable

• oSexual Transmitted Infection Foundation or STIF competencies or the willingness to work towards these

Experience

Essential

• oRelevant people management and leadership skills
• oDemonstrable experience of clinical governance management
• oDemonstrable experience of clinical supervision, education, and training

Desirable

• oDemonstrable experience in Sexual Health, Contraception, pregnancy advisory or HIV clinical practice
• oDemonstrable experience and proven knowledge of enhanced and advanced clinical practice

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

Address

Derriford Hospital

Derriford

Plymouth

PL6 8DH

Employer's website

https://www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)