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Main Duties and Responsibilities

Professional: 

• Be responsible for maintaining current registration with the relevant governing body (Nursing and Midwifery Council) and performing within relevant Guidelines for Practice.
• Analyse, interpret and compare complex facts or situations and take appropriate action
• Identifying educational requirement of Transfer practitioners
• Work within Trust and Service guidance and standard operating procedures, as well as nationally agreed guidelines / standards.
• Acts as an advocate for the patient and their families.
• Leads and actively contributes to service working groups.

Communication:

• Demonstrates excellent verbal communication and listening skills with patients, relatives and all the multi-professional members of staff.
• Demonstrates the ability to manage and convey complex, sensitive information
• Demonstrates politeness, courtesy and sensitivity in providing compassionate care for patients, visitors/relatives and colleagues.
• Contributes towards sharing good practice within the multidisciplinary team.
• Works cohesively with all members of the multidisciplinary team and promote effective liaison with the team in ensuring that the very best services to patients are provided at all times.
• Communicates effectively within the multidisciplinary team, participate in motivating and supporting team members and maintain confidentiality with patients and carers.
• Accepts responsibility for establishing and maintaining productive inter-professional working relationships.

Clinical Role: 

• Delivers high quality, timely critical care transfer care throughout the patient pathway working within the multi-professional consultant-led team. 
• Performs transfers with Duty Consultant and Transfer Doctor or Transfer Doctor with remote Duty Consultant supervision.
• Performs Practitioner-delivered transfers with remote supervision and support from the Retrieve Duty Consultant, and typically, a doctor from the referring hospital.  Utilising advanced clinical assessment skills, triage the patient’s clinical suitability for a Practitioner-delivered transfer.
• Demonstrates expert specialist skill and knowledge in clinical practice, is seen as a clinical leader and will supervise others
• Promotes the needs of patients and their families.
• Be available to Retrieve team members as a source of advice and support, in relation to specialist critical care practice and safe transfer practice.
• Acts as a resource to other clinical areas for their specialist field as well as other national services.
• Encourages and used evidence based practice
• Identifies and pursues own educational and professional development, maintaining a balance between clinical practice and management skill

Education: 

• Leads in the planning and delivery of formal and informal specialised education programmes within the Retrieve service.
• Oversee the induction of new Transfer Practitioners, allocating and working with mentors
• Involvement in the on-boarding of new medical staff
• Leads in the planning and delivery of external outreach education.
• Participates in education forums locally, nationally and internationally.
• Ensures that professional knowledge and practice is constantly updated.
• Takes personal responsibility for life-long learning and personal development through clinical supervision, appraisal and Knowledge and Skills Framework.
• Monitor and assist in yearly competency skill framework for all staff

Patient Care:

• Leads the development, improvement, management and promotion of the service ensuring the delivery of high quality, cost effective care.
• Leads on the implementation and monitoring of adherence to relevant clinical guidelines.
• Provides all staff with specialist advice
• Educates and shares expertise with the multidisciplinary teams
• Ensures optimum care to patients.
• Supports practitioner-led processes.
• Acts as a positive role model for nurses in the services through the demonstration of strong leadership skills.
• Works clinically as part of the nursing team, to share experience, knowledge and expertise and role modelling to more junior staff.
• Acts as a change agent, using skills that will motivate and reassure staff through negotiation and training, to facilitate the change process.

Research Responsibilities:

• Collates and records quantitative and qualitative data that provides evidence of productivity, outcomes and quality, through audit and research.
• Leads clinical audit and undertakes research relevant to specialty and co-operate with other affiliated work.
• Promotes a culture of evidence based practice.
• Works with the multidisciplinary team to develop standards of care and undertake evaluations to monitor the impact on patient car

Leadership and Management:

• Planning the provision of day to day organisational tasks
• Offers formal managerial and clinical supervision and support
• Deputises for the Base Lead Nurse as requested
• Assists with the recruitment and selection of staff
• Ensures that staff can demonstrate the ability to manage workload based on flexible principles and prioritise care based on clinical need.
• Demonstrates the ability to deal with immediate issues concerned with staff sickness and absence.
• Maintains accurate and concise records that produce statistical data for the purpose of evaluation and development of the service.
• Keeps accurate and up to date patient records.
• Serves on working parties and project teams related to direct and indirect management of services as required.
• Participates in strategic care and business planning for development of the service as required.
• Participates in the development of evidence based policies and procedures.
• Facilitates the development of quality initiatives such as audit, evidence based practice and risk management within a culture of continuous quality improvements.
• Practices in accordance with the Retrieve policy and procedure
• Participates in individual performance review annually.