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To ensure safe and effective clinical practice
• To be professionally accountable for the maintenance of standards of professional practice and behaviours as set by the Nursing &
Midwifery Council
• To take personal responsibility for actions and omissions, and fully recognise personal accountability
• To practise within an ethical framework based upon dignity and respect for the well-being and safety of patients and clients
• To demonstrate expert and extensive knowledge in areas such as diagnostics, therapeutics, the biological, social and epidemiological
sciences, and enhanced skills in areas such as consultation and clinical decision-making in a variety of settings
• Undertake interventional procedures/ highly specialist diagnostics with appropriate consent
• Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence based
practice, setting implementing and monitoring evidence based standards of care, policies, procedures and protocols
• Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement through the use of audit, patient feedback and reflection on practice by self and
other members of the team.
• Promote a clean and safe environment for staff, patients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols
including health and safety, healthcare associated infection prevention, clinical governance, including risk management and critical
incident reporting and root cause analysis.
• Ensure/deliver a high standard of compassionate clinical care and record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council,
national legislation and local standards
• Lead effective communication with the multi-professional team regarding patient care.
• Assess the risks involved in the care of patients and ensure utilisation of practices and protocols to minimise those risks, including safe
use of medical devices.
• To monitor the standards of care and take appropriate actions when standards fall below expected levels.
• Report incidents and near misses promptly and appropriately and take effective action to minimise future risk.
• Identify and implement systems to promote contribution of advanced level nursing and demonstrate the impact of advanced level
nursing to the healthcare team and the wider health and social care sector
• Continually evaluate and audit the practice of self and others at individual and systems levels, selecting and applying valid and reliable
approaches and methods which are appropriate to needs and context, and acting on the findings
• Continually assess and monitor risk in own and others’ practice and challenge others about wider risk factors
• Critically appraise and synthesise the outcomes of relevant research, evaluations and audits and apply the information when seeking to
improve practice
• Initiate, coordinate, and implement research in specialist area
• In the absence of medical staff and within predetermined parameters, using advanced clinical-reasoning skills initiate treatment plans
and support to ensure on-going patient safety
To enhance the patients experience
• To assess individuals, families and populations holistically using a range of different assessment methods, physical examination,
ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests or advanced health needs
assessment
• Admit/discharge patients between acute and secondary care
• Have a health promotion and prevention orientation, and comprehensively assess patients for risk factors and early signs of illness.
Utilise ‘making every contact count’ as an approach to change
behaviour through interactions with individuals, carers and families to support them in making positive changes to their physical and
mental health and wellbeing
• Draw on a diverse range of highly specialist knowledge in decision-making to determine evidence-based therapeutic interventions
prescribe medication and actively monitor the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions
• Working in partnership with others, delegate and refer to other practitioners as appropriate to optimise health outcomes and resource
use
• Use professional judgement in independently managing complex and unpredictable care events and capture the learning from these
experiences to improve patient care and service delivery.
• Draw upon an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources in clinical practice.
• Work within appropriately defined boundaries of practice.
• Ensure an effective and efficient patient’s journey by supervising the planning and co-ordination of the episode of care including the
smooth transition to other settings, promoting safe and effective discharge and optimising communication with interdisciplinary and
interagency teams as required.
• Co-ordinate nursing/midwifery interventions advise on clinical decisions and monitor the quality of patient care provided through using
expert clinical knowledge relevant to own field of practice,
underpinned by theory and experience
• Within a multidisciplinary framework, develop a culture of person-centred care.
• Promote a caring environment where equality and diversity issues are respected and patients are enabled to be partners in their care
• Identify opportunities to develop care and services by ensuring that there are effective systems in place to ascertain patient and carer
experience/feedback and ensure complaints are managed in line with
organisational policy, including the dissemination of learning points
• Ensure that everyone within the sphere of care is treated with dignity and humanity, understanding individual needs, showing Shortlisting pack compassion and sensitivity, and provide care in a way that respects all people equally
• Provide consultancy service to own services and other professions on therapeutic interventions, practice and service development.
• Plan opportunities to generate and apply new knowledge to own and others’ practice in structured ways which are capable of evaluation
• Lead and develop highly specialised programmes of care/care packages ensuring effective delivery by self or others
• To undertake the role of Independent Nurse Prescriber within the clinical setting in line with Trust policy / National guidance. Undertake
annual audit of prescribing practice.
• Contribute to the training of medical colleagues and other non-medical professionals in areas linked to the service
To manage and develop the performance of the team
• Demonstrate resilience and determined leadership in contexts that are unfamiliar, complex and unpredictable.
• Strive constantly to improve practice and health outcomes so that they are consistent with or better than national and international standards through initiating, facilitating and leading change at individual, team, organisational and system levels
• Engage stakeholders and use high-level negotiating and influencing skills to develop and improve practice.
• Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries and proactively develop and sustain new partnerships and networks
to influence and improve health, outcomes and healthcare delivery systems.
• Develop practices and roles that are appropriate to patient and service need through understanding the implications of and applying
epidemiological, demographic, social, political and professional trends and developments.
• Identify the need for change, proactively generate practice innovations and lead new practice and service redesign solutions to better
meet the needs of patients and the service.
• Act as a visible positive role model, creating a supportive ethos to empower staff to contribute to the delivery of high quality person
centred care.
• Ensure nurses and nursing staff take responsibility for the care they provide and answer for their own judgments and actions and carry
out those actions in a way that is agreed with their patients, and the
families and carers of their patients, and in a way that meets the requirements of organisational policies and procedures, their
professional bodies and the law.
• Take all reasonable care of health and safety at work for you, your team and others and to co-operate with employers to ensure
compliance with health and safety requirements.
• Create a learning environment that ensures effective learning opportunities for staff and students including appropriate orientation and
induction programmes, a range of clinical support strategies
(mentoring, coaching, peer review and clinical supervision).
• Maintain training needs analyses to support standards of care delivery development of the service.
• Develop strategies and undertake activities that monitor and improve the quality of healthcare and the effectiveness of own and others’
practice
• Lead the appraisal process ensuring that personal development plans are consistent with the team’s, ward’s and organisation’s
objectives, succession planning and workforce development supporting
revalidation.
• Plan, monitor and evaluate on-going mandatory training and relevant education and development opportunities for the nursing team
• Use financial acumen in patient/client, team, organisational and system level decision-making and demonstrate appropriate strategies
to enhance quality, productivity and value
• Manage the practice setting, hold a delegated budget and demonstrate effective use of resources and workforce planning by monitoring
workload and, through efficient rostering, maintain appropriate staffing levels and skill mix taking account of role and competence of
staff when delegating work. Effective use of e-rostering for the efficient management of resources within the post holders area of
responsibility
• Manage the nursing/midwifery team, ensuring compliance by self and others with professional standards, legislation, national and
organisational policies.