Job responsibilities
The
post holder will be practising as an independent specialist clinical
practitioner providing patient-centred and evidence-based clinical care,
within an agreed scope of competence and practice. The jobholder is responsible
for the management of a defined caseload. The jobholder carries continuing
responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development,
implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting of
standards of care.
The
post holder will provide specialist nursing advice and care to support and
facilitate high quality, individualised care to patients and their carers in
collaboration with the multi/interdisciplinary team for patients with chronic
pain, spasticity and movement disorders, who are referred to the Chronic Pain
& Neuromodulation and Neuro Rehabilitation Service, for procedures
including: spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation and
intrathecal drug delivery, as well as key involvement in the chronic pain medication
management.
To
provide specialist nursing care and support in the management of the
Neuromodulation Service. This will involve dealing with complex situations
and having to take appropriate action in a variety of settings, under the
guidance of the team leader for the service.
To
be flexible in the approach to the clinical area acting as a professional
role model providing direct and indirect clinical care, teaching, research
and audit.
JOB
DIMENSIONS
In
conjunction with the team leader:-
Be responsible for the organisation
and development of the service.
Producing business plans to support
restructure of the service as/when required.
Setting out an education structure
for the team
Ensure the team comply with the
Trusts risk and governance agenda.
Support and encourage the
development of the band 6 role.
KNOWLEDGE,
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Qualifications
Registered Nurse (Level 1)
Recognised teaching/assessing
qualification
First level Degree Education
Post registration qualification in
speciality field (desirable).
Post registration study at masters
level in specialist field or equivalent experience.
Extended/Supplementary Prescribing
(or willingness to complete qualification)
Experience
Extensive experience at band 6 or
equivalent within relevant specialty during which the following experience
will have been gained:
Clinical audit, research and
standard setting
Service development and or change
management
Skills
Communication skills
Leadership skills
Teaching
Recruitment and Selection
IT skills
Plan specialist nursing provision,
including education and training
Knowledge
Highly developed specialist
knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience
Current issues in healthcare
Standards of professional practice
Personal
Attributes
Excellent interpersonal skills
Innovator
Motivator
Assertiveness
Flexibility, adaptable, capable of
lateral thinking
Politically aware
THE
LEEDS WAY VALUES
Our
values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this
as strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our
staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:
Patient-centred
Collaborative
Fair
Accountable
Empowered
All
our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values
Additionally
the following are core values which relate specifically to this post:
Commitment to delivering high
quality evidence based care
Commitment to working in a multi-disciplinary
team
Commitment to the specialty area,
valuing the contribution of all team members, encouraging a positive and
creative working environment
Commitment to own personal and
professional development and to the development of others within the team.
CORE
BEHAVIOURS AND SKILLS
Communication skills
Teaching and assessment skills
Organisational skills
Time management skills
Change management skills
Understanding of research based
practice research conscious
Team player
Conflict management
Managing stress
Uses initiative to resolve issues
within their own control
Ability to act professionally at
all times
CORE
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Understanding of the local and
national nursing agenda
Understanding of relevant National
Service Frameworks (if appropriate)
Awareness of Leeds Teaching
Hospitals Trust guidelines and policies
Understanding of organisational
structures
PRINCIPAL
DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Acts in accordance with the Nursing
and Midwifery Code of Conduct
Clinical
Clinical
care delivery
- Provide a clinical lead and role
model to other nursing staff by delivering high quality care as an expert
practitioner
- Undertake clinical procedures where
dexterity and accuracy are required.
- Maintain a safe working environment
- Undertake duties on other wards or
departments as and when required by service demands or patient need.
- Act in such a way that safeguards
the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults at all times. Is familiar
with and adheres to, the LTHT safeguarding policies.
Responsibilities
for patient and client care
- Assesses, develops and implement
specialist nursing care programmes and evaluate care and treatments using
advanced clinical knowledge and clinical skills
- Plan specialist nursing service
provision organising and managing own workload.
- Provides specialised advice
contributing to the diagnosis and care of patients.
- Freedom to act
- Makes clinical assessments and
treatment decisions within clearly defined policies and protocols
- Refer patients as appropriate to
other members of the multi-disciplinary team
- When required exercises significant
clinical discretion and judgement within broadly defined clinical parameters
and policies.
Communication
- Maintains accurate clinical and
other records using the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trusts documentation
- Support patients and their families
communicating very sensitive, complex condition related information, ensuring
they receive required information to enable them to participate on their care
delivery
- Liaise with Community Services (as
appropriate) to ensure seamless provision of care delivery
Education and Training
- Plans, provides and facilitates
specialist training and education of learners and other junior staff within
own speciality area
- Provides specialist training and
education at post-graduate level within the University settings as agreed
with Head of Nursing.
- Actively participate in the
development of own personal development plan and performance review.
- Participate in national, regional
and local conferences as agreed with Head of Nursing.
- Provide education and training to
patients and their carers.
- Keep up to date with developments,
advances within the specialty
Leadership and management
- Provide leadership to the clinical
team working with Head of Nursing, develop new roles/ways of working
- Investigate and respond to
accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events
- Maintains record of workload and
performance monitoring information for own practice and reviews this on a
regular basis with Team Leader/ Head of Nursing.
- Exercises a personal duty of care
in relation to equipment, resource and stock control ordering and utilising
equipment and supplies appropriately
- Work with Team Leader/ Head of
Nursing. to lead the development of
nursing practice, reflecting the CSU and Corporate Nursing business plans
- Set, monitor and seek to
continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care, including
those standards defined in the
National Benchmarks for Essential Care
- Promote evidence based practice,
wherever possible
- Raise concerns with regards to
risk, danger, malpractice or wrong doing by following the LTHT Whistleblowing
policy and supporting processes.
- Propose, develop and implement
policy, protocols and practice guidelines specific to the clinical specialty.
- Contributes to the development of
specialist protocols for specialist area.
- Proposes policy and service change
and leads the development of the same within and beyond own specialist area.
- Engage users and carers views on
service delivery and development.
