Job summary
Emergency Practitioner / Lead Nurse Manager:
Directorate: Acute & Emergency Medicine
Band: 7
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum
Medway Foundation Trust Emergency Department
- Do you want to be part of an innovative and award-winning team?
- Do you want to have a clear plan of continuing professional development and career opportunities?
- Are you committed to delivering evidence-based care?
- Would you like to have a varied rota including Practitioner, Lead Nurse Manager and STREAMing roles?
If you have answered yes:
To meet this challenge we are increasing our workforce, investing in their professional development and introducing new and innovative roles.
Acute & Emergency Medicine provides an exciting and rewarding career; at Medway we offer a support and development package that has received national acknowledgement and won the Nursing Times Workforce 2020, Health Service Journal 2021 and Nursing Times Awards 2021 awards.
Working in Acute & Emergency care can be stressful and challenging; you will need to be resilient and hard working.
Working for us opens a world of opportunity, if you would like to discuss a career with us, please contact Cliff Evans Consultant Nurse cliffevans@nhs.net for further information or to arrange an informal visit.
Main duties of the job
Provide strong and visible leadership throughout the Care Group's clinical areas ensuring that the team understand the strategic direction within the Care Group and the overarching Trust objectives.
Demonstrate effective leadership by promoting and modelling leadership behaviours.
Supporting the Nurse Consultant, Head of Nursing and Lead Practitioner to take forward and implement the Trust nursing and midwifery vision and strategic plan across the Care Group and to deliver a clinically and financially viable service model maintaining a focus on the delivery of high quality patient care standards.
Working in partnership with the Care Group Leads, actively support and empower the nursing workforce to develop and utilise clinical leadership skills, ensuring they are invested in appropriate levels of authority to undertake their role effectively in an accountable manner.
Maintain an insight into the patient's journey by utilising regular clinical experience.
As a key member of the senior team, contribute to and promote a culture that values all staff recognising and acknowledging achievement/innovation and success whilst positively addressing poor performance, succession planning and talent management.
Lead the use of and monitor compliance against all nursing metrics such as Quality Care Rounds and the implementation of changes, through a culture of continuous improvement.
About us
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Service Development & Leadership
Provide strong and visible leadership throughout the Care Groups clinical areas ensuring that the team understand the strategic direction within the Care Group and the overarching Trust objectives.
Demonstrate effective leadership by promoting and modelling leadership behaviours.
Supporting the Nurse Consultant, Head of Nursing and Lead Practitioner to take forward and implement the Trust nursing and midwifery vision and strategic plan across the Care Group and to deliver a clinically and financially viable service model maintaining a focus on the delivery of high quality patient care standards.
Working in partnership with the Care Group Leads, actively support and empower the nursing workforce to develop and utilise clinical leadership skills, ensuring they are invested in appropriate levels of authority to undertake their role effectively in an accountable manner.
Maintain an insight into the patients journey by utilising regular clinical experience.
As a key member of the senior team, contribute to and promote a culture that values all staff recognising and acknowledging achievement/innovation and success whilst positively addressing poor performance, succession planning and talent management.
Lead the use of and monitor compliance against all nursing metrics such as Quality Care Rounds and the implementation of changes, through a culture of continuous improvement.
Enable a culture where all individuals are able to contribute equally by ensuring effective written and verbal communication systems, and the use of Information Technology is embedded within the Care Group.
Look for ways to incorporate nationally recognised best practice for patients you treat autonomously or where possible those attending the service.
Promote equality and diversity in line with legislation and policy both for client groups and employees.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Service Development & Leadership
Provide strong and visible leadership throughout the Care Groups clinical areas ensuring that the team understand the strategic direction within the Care Group and the overarching Trust objectives.
Demonstrate effective leadership by promoting and modelling leadership behaviours.
Supporting the Nurse Consultant, Head of Nursing and Lead Practitioner to take forward and implement the Trust nursing and midwifery vision and strategic plan across the Care Group and to deliver a clinically and financially viable service model maintaining a focus on the delivery of high quality patient care standards.
Working in partnership with the Care Group Leads, actively support and empower the nursing workforce to develop and utilise clinical leadership skills, ensuring they are invested in appropriate levels of authority to undertake their role effectively in an accountable manner.
Maintain an insight into the patients journey by utilising regular clinical experience.
As a key member of the senior team, contribute to and promote a culture that values all staff recognising and acknowledging achievement/innovation and success whilst positively addressing poor performance, succession planning and talent management.
Lead the use of and monitor compliance against all nursing metrics such as Quality Care Rounds and the implementation of changes, through a culture of continuous improvement.
Enable a culture where all individuals are able to contribute equally by ensuring effective written and verbal communication systems, and the use of Information Technology is embedded within the Care Group.
Look for ways to incorporate nationally recognised best practice for patients you treat autonomously or where possible those attending the service.
Promote equality and diversity in line with legislation and policy both for client groups and employees.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Emergency Nursing qualification (199, BSC or MSc) or equivalent from other speciality
- Autonomous practice qualification (Level 6/7)
- Mentorship / Coaching qualification (or equivalent experience of supervising students)
- Level 1/2 RCN Emergency Nursing Competencies
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of standard setting, benchmarking & audit.
- Extensive knowledge of speciality and key priorities
- Proficient to expert knowledge of speciality
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience within speciality or other critical care experience
- Extensive knowledge of speciality and key priorities
- Proficient to expert knowledge of speciality
Skills
Essential
- Organisation and management skills
- Teaching & facilitating others
- Articulate advanced written & oral communication skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Emergency Nursing qualification (199, BSC or MSc) or equivalent from other speciality
- Autonomous practice qualification (Level 6/7)
- Mentorship / Coaching qualification (or equivalent experience of supervising students)
- Level 1/2 RCN Emergency Nursing Competencies
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of standard setting, benchmarking & audit.
- Extensive knowledge of speciality and key priorities
- Proficient to expert knowledge of speciality
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience within speciality or other critical care experience
- Extensive knowledge of speciality and key priorities
- Proficient to expert knowledge of speciality
Skills
Essential
- Organisation and management skills
- Teaching & facilitating others
- Articulate advanced written & oral communication skills
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
