Nurse Consultant

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

Provide expert clinical advice to clinical staff within the service to ensure best practice standards are met.

Demonstrate clinical expertise in practice, working in collaboration and undertaking complex planning with the appropriate multi-disciplinary groups to meet the specific needs of all of the services patients; ensuring patients benefit from a multi-disciplinary approach to their care.

Lead on on-going modernisation and new ways of working and innovation within the service(s) to improve patient outcomes.

Demonstrate expert clinical skills and knowledge that informs clinical decision making

Direct and use the results of specialist investigations to assist formulation of diagnosis and plan patient management from a range of interventions.

Undertake non-medical prescribing in accordance with the Trust non-medical prescribing policy

Refer patients to other departments or colleagues within or outside the Trust as necessary relying on own interpretation of highly complex investigation results.

To oversee and supervise others in developing their competence to confident decision making and delivery of nurse led clinics applicable to the post and speciality through empowerment and support.

Lead the development of clinical expertise, enabling clinicians to develop advanced decision making and prescribing skills.

To recognise the limits of own clinical knowledge and skills and to seek medical support whenever needed to provide safe, effective and timely patient care.

To develop nurse led care in collaboration with medical and multi-disciplinary colleagues.

Act in accordance with Professional body scope of practice and multi professional consultant level capabilities framework, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct and Scope for Expanded Practices for Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors.

Responsibility for Patients

Provide professional and clinical leadership, providing a highly visible presence ensuring the delivery of excellence in expert clinical practice, audit, research, and service and practice development agendas.

Leads the development of innovations in clinical practice that is supported, evaluated and contributes to develop an evidence base to meet the needs of patients, families, relatives and staff.

Evolve the role of the Consultant Nurse, in line with core capabilities for consultant level practice and registered professional body.

Nationally aware of patient pathways and patient experience initiatives and be able to implement these locally.

Ensure patients are at the centre of all pathway development work and play a pivotal role in improvement. Challenge professional and organisational boundaries in the interests of improving patient care and health outcomes.

Responsibility for Policy and Service Development

Participate in complex service redesign with particular emphasis on developing confident and competent clinical nurse specialists.

Demonstrate a thorough understanding of local and national objectives and in conjunction with the senior management team contribute to the strategic and business planning of the services focusing on issues related to nursing / education / training / research activities.

Interpret and evaluate highly complex information from all sources including user feedback, making informed judgements to make recommendations on improving practice

To develop innovative models of service delivery, challenging organisational and professional boundaries.

Lead the clinical team with the identification of innovations and areas for service improvement and propose and the development of policies, procedures and guidelines.

Responsibility for Education and Training

Collaborates with Service Lead and academic institutions to lead on education, research and practice and plays a leading role in the development of multi-professional research to establish an evidence base practice in the relevant specialty.

Develop staff potential, add to and transform the workforce, and help people to learn, develop and improve (in and from practice) to promote excellence.

To provide learning opportunities for nurses and other health care professionals by working alongside them, and/or via mentorship and supervision. This includes providing inter professional support for staff of all disciplines

Assess education and training requirements at individual and team level which arise from new developments and develop service training needs analysis.

Disseminate best practice through delivery of training to support organisational needs.

Evaluate professional development plans and educational effectiveness.

Responsibility for Leading and Managing

Build high-quality, compassionate relationships, turning shared values into expected patterns of behaviour to make sure all care and services are safe, effective and person-centred (focused on the individual, their needs and their choices)

Providing direct advice, consultancy and expertise to individuals and interdisciplinary teams in a wide range of situations, including expertise across the system to achieve a significant impact across the general population and adds to the capacity and capability of the workforce

Provide written reports or presentations to support practice development.

To provide line management to the lead nurses within the department, role modelling world class behaviours in staff and organisational management.

Responsibility for Information Resources

Act as a resource to staff in relation to the analysis of highly complex audit and research data.

Contributes to the development of appropriate outcomes and service impact measures to evaluate patient response and service development needs.

Input into electronic systems to inform management team re: audit programmes/outcomes and contribute to national intelligence on the speciality.

Responsibility for Research and Development

Participate in research and the development of an audit cycle for the team to monitor and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of service provided.

Critically analyse and synthesis of research literature. Disseminate knowledge through presentations and publication.

Develops a knowledge-rich and inquiry culture across the service and system that contributes to research outputs and has a positive effect on development, quality, innovation, increasing capacity and capability, and making systems more effective.

Using and enabling evidence-based professional practice, data and audits, to continually evaluate and improving practice, creating knowledge-rich and inquiring cultures, supervising research, working in and leading interdisciplinary research and innovation programmes to contribute to the knowledge base, and adding capacity and capability in research and evaluation across the system.

Lead on activities that allow the widest access to new research, innovations, outcome indicators and ways of working that will benefit health care, including high-quality publications, professional and public engagement strategies and appropriate media.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse/
• Teaching Accreditation or equivalent
• Masters degree /Advanced Clinical Practice
• Non-Medical Nurse Prescribing V300
• Significant demonstrable experience of clinical practice in a senior role

Desirable

• Research qualification
• Accredited Management Training Course

Right to Work

Essential

• Do you have the right to stay and work in the UK without sponsorship (share-codes will be checked if applicable), please state this on your application form

Skills & Attributes

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent report writing and presentation skills
• IT literate
• Ability to network across organisations
• Ability to influence and motivate others
• Negotiating skills and ability to resolve conflict
• Ability to make decisions and be accountable for them
• Able to demonstrate a broad but in-depth knowledge of health policy in relation to nursing practice
• Able to challenge current practice in a non-threatening manner
• Able to co-ordinate the completion of a number of projects simultaneously
• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
• Ability to compile, analyse and disseminate complex information.

Job Specific Requirements

Essential

• The ability to travel independently across the Trust
• The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs
• Highly Motivated
• Positive Attitude
• Assertiveness
• Enthusiasm
• Objectivity

Experience

Essential

• Ability to demonstrate significant expert clinical practice experience including responsibility for case management, developing clinical pathways, leading service provision and of developing staff in the clinical environment
• Evidence of strategic system leadership
• Highly developed physical skills when providing patient/client care
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Evidence of innovative practice that involves research or audit.
• Evidence of research experience.
• Evidence of managing people
• Experience of multi-agency working
• Demonstrable achievement in:
• Changing clinical practice
• Developing professional staff
• Organisational change
• Leadership
• Teaching
• Mentorship
• Professional management
• Experience of working with academic institutions
• Experience of public speaking
• Ability to work autonomously, working to board occupational policies where interpretation is a post holder responsibility.
• Knowledge of broad occupational policies that impact on the service(s) with the ability to interpret these to the organisation/service(s)
• Ability to use moving and handling techniques when undertaking clinical care of patients
• Able to concentrate for frequent periods when implementing care, reviewing documentation, planning training etc where the working pattern may be unpredictable.
• Able to work in frequent distressing environments due to the clinical nature of the role/service(s)
• Able to work in an environment with frequent unpleasant working conditions due to the nature of the role/service.

Internal Relations

Essential

• If you are related to a director or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship in your application form.

Employment

Essential

• This is an internal only vacancy for staff employed at Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust or Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Please confirm that you are currently employed by one of these Trusts.

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).