Job responsibilities
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Planning and Organisation
Work in close association with divisional leadership team (clinical and operational), clinicians and departments to enable staff to support service delivery across the Trust.
Contribute to the development, implementation and review of the Divisional Strategy, development and innovation priorities and strategic goals, and sets out the structures and organisational plan to achieve these goals.
Contributes to the development, implementation, and review of the Trusts Corporate and Divisional Objectives
Support with the operational development, implementation and review of Trust systems and processes relating to service delivery including digital technology and IT systems.
In collaboration with the Divisional Associate Chief Nurse, lead on workforce development & training for clinical staff within the Trust.
Represent the Trust locally and nationally and participate in national forums and work streams.
Contribute to the senior Trust meetings and, working with the Trust clinical staff and senior nurses/ AHPs, promote the strategic development of nursing within the Trust.
Represent the Division and Trust at forums or consultative groups in relation to clinical delivery services.
Supports in the divisional objectives relating to EDI, ensuring these programs of work are seen as a key part of divisional workplans and strategic objectives
Patient Care
Act as an autonomous practitioner in their specialist field using highly specialist clinical knowledge ensuring patient centred care and family involvement, including health promotion and disease prevention.
Be directly responsible for the management of patients within own caseload.
Apply advanced theoretical and practical knowledge to the clinical care of people, their families and partner agencies involved when delivering and shaping services in line with national guidelines, best practice, and the national personalised care agenda.
Identify and lead the development and implementation of advanced practice within services.
Work clinically as a resource and role model and to cover absence as required, ensuring a reasonable balance between need, area of expertise and own service area.
Works across teams to analyse, produce, provide, and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information including information on finances, performance data and HR data.
Produces, analyses, and interprets key performance data in accordance with various internal and external performance management frameworks, and be able to produce meaningful reports for the Division.
Can use a variety of clinical information systems within the Trust.
Will be required to examine patients, pre, during and after treatment often in highly complex situations, where patients may be in distress or pain and examination needs to be performed using highly developed physical skills.
Perform clinical, technical, or invasive procedures safely according to defined protocols, adhering to manual handling policy.
To maintain clinical records and ensure clinical governance in accordance with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust policies.
To provide governance and overview of record keeping for patients on the clinic caseload.
Human Resources
Provide professional leadership and direct line management for Acute Oncology AP team and other staff as required.
Provides advice or demonstrates own activities or workplace routines to new or less experienced advanced practitioners, other team members, students, and trainees in own work area.
Regularly responsible for providing teaching and training in own discipline to less experienced advanced practitioners, other team members, students, and trainees following identification of training needs. Provides practical training of procedures as informed by own area of expertise. Provides workplace assessments as part of ongoing clinical supervision and evaluation.
Responsible for maintaining own CPD as evidenced by maintaining a portfolio in line with centre for advancing practice and own professional bodies legislation.
Ensures that grievances and raising concern issues are treated appropriately and within Trust policies.
Lead by example by ensuring your communication style reflects the values of the trust, utilising advanced communication skills, empowering, and motivating a positive culture within individuals and teams.
Monitor adequate staffing levels within the Division, identifying skill mix requirements to reflect service developments and clinical need and consider innovative roles to support clinical service delivery.
Support the Divisional ACN to develop a long-term strategy for nursing within the division to ensure the workforce is competent, flexible, and responsive and continues to develop.
Lead on workforce planning (short and long term) to identify potential problems/shortfalls in skills and knowledge, and to improve capacity and capability, retention, and career development of all staff.
Support the development of trainee AP placements across the division ensuring a good learning experience.
Participate in the recruitment, selection and retention of staff and manage, develop, and support others within the team to support resilience and build confidence in all team members.
Financial and Physical Resources
Identify and contribute to the drawing up of Value Improvement Programme (VIP) by the evaluation of the effectiveness, efficiency and safety of clinical practice contributing to service improvement initiatives.
Participate in the implementation of models of care appropriate to patient population needs.
Support the promotion of patient and public involvement in activities designed to inform service improvement.
Oversight of incidents within departments and ensuring dissemination and learning from reported trends and events
Governance & Quality
In conjunction with the Divisional Associate Chief Nurse:
Oversight of incidents within departments and ensuring dissemination and learning from reported trends and events
Proactively identify and manage risks and issues, escalating as required through standard Trust processes.
Ensure that confidentiality for patients and staff is maintained in all areas and that staff adhere to the Data Protection Act, Freedom of Information Act, and the Caldicott Principles.
Ensure all relevant governance and quality training in completed within teams in appropriate timeframes.
Ensure regular use of quality management systems.
Maintain a range of communication resources to ensure all staff across the teams have access to up-to-date information about the governance and performance of the division.
Develop the skills to identify and implement evidence-based practice, new developments, treatments, and technologies into clinical practice.
Implements policies for own work area and proposes policy or service changes which impact beyond own area of activity.
Develop skills in the use of quality improvement methodology to assist in changes in practice and service delivery in accordance with evidence-based standards and policy, challenging traditional boundaries and current thinking; and overcoming resistance and conflict at the Trust, system, and national level.
Work with the senior leadership and advanced practice team to develop service specific pathways and place-based care.
Promote a culture across the Trust where risk management and governance are known to be the responsibility of everyone.
To support senior healthcare colleagues and clinical governance teams and take responsibility for patient safety, experience and clinical governance issues relating to integrated community services.
Act as a role model and professional resource and advise as an expert practitioner in all areas of practice, to improve safe patient care, patient experience, and clinical practice.
Leadership and Management
Research and Development
See Additional Responsibilities in the Job Description and Person Specification Document.
