Clinical Practice Development Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical

• Act as an expert practitioner and role model, assisting colleagues to develop advanced knowledge and skills in order to benefit the treatment and care of critically ill patients.

• Demonstrate specialist clinical knowledge and skills at the patients bedside

• Work clinically alongside staff requiring additional support to develop skills, expertise and knowledge to enable effective management of the critically ill patient.

• To develop all staff determining proficiency based on competency frameworks

• Set, monitor and maintain excellent standards of nursing care in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team.

• Maintain and role model personal contact with patients, relatives and carers, being sensitive to their need for courtesy, dignity and privacy, ensuring a safe and friendly environment at all times.

• Maintaining timely and accurate nursing records and ensuring that confidentiality is respected.

• Communicating with and assisting the multidisciplinary team to promote excellence in the delivery of care.

• Monitor and audit the quality of care through a range of strategies including risk management incident reporting, complaints, research and clinical audit.

• Able to scrutinise, question, evaluate and react to a multitude of complex and problematic situations, including practical, emotional and organisational aspects of patient, relative and staff management.

• The post holder will undertake a minimum of 25% direct patient care within a clinical shift, role modelling to others within the unit and maintaining clinical skills.

• Deputising for SPDN as required.

• Supporting and facilitating the development of critical care guidelines and protocols

• Promote and maintain a safe therapeutic environment for patients, their families and staff, according to national and local Infection Control guidelines, Health & Safety legislation and Trust policies and objectives

• Ensure that the team promote, ensure and adhere to the Trust safeguarding polices

• Monitor quality of standards of care, in line with CQC requirements and Trust and Divisional objectives

• Deliver and supervise a high quality patient experience

• Promote and maintain patient safety at all times, including proactively implementing falls and pressure ulcer prevention and safe medicine management

• Have an awareness of current professional and clinical developments within their area of practice and promote this to others

Leadership and management

• Continue to undertake shift coordinator on clinical shift where appropriate

• Ensure staff adhere to Trust protocols of care, e.g. Infection Control

• Take continuing responsibility for the Ward / Department in absence of manager

• Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with other professional groups, and staff generally within the Division and the Trust

• Lead and coordinate the delivery of induction / orientation of new staff and development of new staff

• Be responsible in the teaching and delivery of the Foundations of critical care programme

• Act as a role model, ensuring staff work to Trust guidelines and values

• Be responsible for managing and facilitating the supervision of qualified and unqualified staff and learners

• Provide clinical support and guidance to staff

• Act as a resource for clinical knowledge to staff

• Lead and participate in recruitment and selection, and develop effective selection and interviewing skills

• Support senior staff members with appraisals of staff, following training

• Chair team meetings as required

• Lead on specific projects, as indicated and agreed by manager

• Have a working knowledge of budget arrangements for area, focussing on cost effectiveness and quality, to ensure maximum use of resource

• Understand and manage local change with team members, including the embedding of new projects

Education & research

• Actively support and assist in preceptorship and in pre-registration student support, supervision and guidance including mentorship where appropriate

• Identify and respond to learning needs for area

• Develop and deliver or organise local training sessions, mindful of the Trust values

• Facilitate others in the development of informal teaching skills

• Participate in the annual training needs analysis for their area

• Participate in any local or related research projects, clinical trials etc.

• To be involved in implementing new ideas and innovations within the ICU.

• Respond to clinical incidents relating to performance/capability/education & skills

• Apply and encourage others to utilise evidence based practice and relevant research findings in practice

• Identify areas of nursing / midwifery research within their area that will be of benefit, and encourage and educate other staff to recognise the importance of research

• Participate in clinical supervision / acting as supervisor

• Support team leaders in monitoring and co-ordinating mandatory training requirements for critical care nursing team.

Professional development

• Maintain professional registration

• Ensure mandatory training and a satisfactory appraisal is in date

• Undertake a professional development plan and demonstrate achievement of objectives

• Ensure adherence to Trust policy and guidelines at all times

• Role model Trust values at all times

Communication and relationship building

• Know and utilize Trust values in all working relationships to patients, corers and staff.

• Demonstrate good leadership skills and ensure that communication is effective between the patient, relatives and members of the multidisciplinary team, and ensure appropriate nursing input into patient care discussions

• Ensure communication is used effectively in the interests of patient care, including the use of clinical incident reporting if necessary.

• Communicate handover of care in a professional manner

• Demonstrate politeness, courtesy and sensitivity in dealing with patients/clients, visitors/relatives and colleagues, maintaining good customer relations and recognizing individuality and rights for each patient in line with Trust values.

• Work cohesively with all members of the ward team in ensuring that the very best services to patients are provided at all times

• Work effectively within a multi-racial and cultural environment

Education Team Management

• Planning and allocation of new staff to teams and rostering in accordance to continuity, skill mix, student nurses, bank or agency staff and developmental needs of staff.

• Meet with SPDN and cross-site PDN on a monthly basis

• Ensuring and role-modelling effective handover of patient care between shifts (both coordinator and bedside staff)

• Provide and facilitate clinical support and learning opportunities for staff , ensure that staff are aware of teaching sessions/inter team projects and attend them

• Demonstrating and supporting the maintenance of a safe environment through the checking of emergency equipment, preparation of bed areas, adherence to trust policies, maintenance of equipment, reporting of clinical incidents and staff performance

• Supporting team leaders with managing a team through facilitation of effective team function, promotion of team development and ensure that the team meets identified standards of care of best practice. Including:

• Facilitating team days take place and are rostered and link with MDT

• Supporting senior staff members in ensuring all staff have a PDR and maintain their revalidation

• Supporting an environment for mutual support within the team

• Ensuring good communication exists within the wider ICU team

• Supporting participation of team members in inter team projects

• Participating in the monitoring and auditing the quality of care provided to patients

• Providing support with care planning and documentation

• Reviewing and learning from Patient feedback

• Completion of Mandatory updates.

Other responsibilities

• Supporting other departments through expert advice and clinical support when required

• Networking with the northwest London critical care network and PAN London education network

• To develop ICU research based guidelines with support of colleagues.

• On completion of ALS training to act as a member of the Trust Resuscitation Team

• To act up in the absence of the senior practice development nurse

Person Specification

Person Specification

Essential

• Putting patients first
• Responsive to patients and staff
• Open and honest
• Unfailingly kind
• Determined to develop
• NMC Registered Adult Nurse
• A Degree in Nursing
• Must be a trained Preceptor
• Must have completed as qualified Practice Assessor
• A clinical expert either through formal qualification and extensive clinical experience pertinent to the area.
• Post-registration teaching/mentorship qualification/ practice supervisor
• Ability to work as part of a team and use initiative
• Experience in teaching
• A willingness to work towards the Practice Educator qualification or equivalent
• Experience in teaching
• Experience of staff management
• Demonstrates evidence of developing innovative practice and of being proactive in managing change
• Recent experience in Non-invasive ventilation , CPAP, BIPAP
• Basic IT and computer & presentation skills
• Demonstrates an understanding of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Standards of proficiency
• Awareness of current developments in own clinical specialty.
• Able to work clinically and undertake a full range of duties with regards to patient care
• Able to undertake moving and handling duties
• Ability to work as part of a team and use initiative.
• Demonstrates commitment to high standards of patient care and service delivery
• A genuine desire to be a learning facilitator with demonstrable enthusiasm for practice development

Desirable

• Critical Care qualification
• ILS/ALS trained

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

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

West Middlesex Hospital

Twickenham Road

London

TW7 6AF

Employer's website

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