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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP 

¨      Provides and receives complex sensitive or contentious information and anticipates barriers to communication, whilst recognising factors that may influence the situation and pro-actively seeking out solutions to improve communication

¨      Communicate effectively with a wide range of the multidisciplinary team and stake holder’s, including rep’s and outside agencies.

¨      Communicate with patient’s relatives in a manner consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background and preferred ways of understanding.

¨      To be empathetic and reassuring when communicating sensitive information and advice to patients, carers and relatives or employees

¨      To ensure that essential information on the patients’ condition and progress is recorded by self   and team members appropriately according to NMC guidelines.

¨      Provide leadership to support and give guidance to ensure the highest standards of care.  

¨      Inspire others and encourage them to seek advice and solutions to problem’s   

¨      Encourage others to take an active part in developing knowledge, ideas, and work practice.

¨      Identify and manage challenging behaviours, within teams.

¨      Implementing and evaluating leadership development and supporting and enabling staff in their leadership roles in clinical practice 

¨      Support the activities of the senior management team in delivery of National Performance Targets NHS Improvement Plan.

¨      Act on concerns reported by team members or service users.

¨      Ensure working hours of staff are managed to maintain a health work/life balance and comply with the European Working Time Directive.

¨      Have a flexible approach rostering and working times to support the services and work life balance.

¨      Maintain good communications with local Cancer centres and units to help achieve standardised policies and procedures.

¨      Develop the services within the clinic area and implement service improvement.

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

¨      Ensure team members have development review and that issues of poor compliance are addressed.

¨      Ensure own compliance and compliance of others with regard to mandatory training and training records are maintained.

¨      Participate in the development of others through involvement in training, education and development within and outside the unit environment

ORGANISATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

¨      To continuously monitor and take effective action to address quality issues and promote quality

¨      To raise quality issues and related risks with relevant people, and follow this up, addressing poor performance as per Trust policy e.g., complaints, incidents, poor communication.

¨      To inform and influence of Clinical Governance Issues, ensure risk register is kept up

to date and managed.

¨      Budget holder with responsibility for the authorising and controlling of financial resources which includes the management of equipment and contract agreement’s, monitoring and reviewing of all staffing budgets. 

¨      Manage staff sickness as per trust policy  

¨      Manage poor performance as per trust policy            

¨      Planning / organising of clinic’s and monitor activities as needed 

¨      Be involved in developing and promoting the service 

¨      Clinical Audit and support Clinical research projects.

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

¨      Continuing responsibility for the management of the department over 5 days.

¨      Provide cross site Band 7 cover on the SACT unit.

¨      Ensures targets are delivered and if necessary, implements measures to

           achieve them.

¨      Is responsible for ensuring that the Department expenditure stays within the               budgetary allowance. Identifies problem areas and acts accordingly.

¨      Plans the employment/deployment of staff within the department and ensures that safe  staffing levels are maintained.

¨      Identifies training and development needs for staff through appraisal, and service need.

Ensure effective and efficient rostering, and management of annual leave

¨      Participates in the recruitment and selection of staff for own area’s of responsibility.

¨      Involved in all departmental activities and management decisions aimed at improving and developing the quality and cost effectiveness of the service.

¨      Support the achievement of performance targets for waiting times.

¨      Core member of the Chemotherapy Multiprofessional meetings.

¨      Work alongside the Practice educator, providing support with training.

¨      To be part of the Band 7 on call roster within the Trust, providing support to the on call Matron.