Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Practice

Implement evidence-based practice in the provision of treatment and care to clients.

Be accountable for own personal clinical caseload using resources as appropriate.

Select appropriate assessment tools for assessing specific client needs and risks.

Demonstrate sound clinical decision-making skills that are in the interests of the client.

Provide skilled clinical supervision to others.

Apply health enhancing skills in a wider group/community setting.

Apply self-awareness to reflections on their nursing practice.

Deliver high quality, up to date, evidence based, patient centred clinical care through assessment, diagnosing, planning, implementation, and evaluation of service user (patient) physical health needs, as part of a holistic care approach.

Have expert knowledge and experience of carrying out assessments of physical health parameters; with the ability to act in a timely manner when assessment appropriately e.g. review care pathway, escalation, or referral to colleagues/services when findings are out of normal range.

Instigate physical health care plans/care pathways which monitor and review and meet the needs of a patient’s physical health as appropriate and where needed in conjunction with the MDT.

Liaise effectively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to enable a holistic approach.

Through own practice standards, provide a professional role model for the delivery of high-quality physical health care.

Have sound knowledge and understanding in advances in clinical theory/practice in relation to general medicine and mental health, and act as the catalyst for innovation.

Facilitate service users (patients’) responsibilities and choices for healthy living, and the ability to determine their own lifestyle within the framework of health promotion and health protection.

Leadership

Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.

Through own practice standards, provide a professional role model for the delivery of high-quality physical health care.

Identify areas of nursing practice requiring development and improvement.

Use available resources efficiently and effectively to maximise client care.

Take a lead role in the implementation of change to develop nursing practice.

Distinguish between different leadership and management styles.

Choose an effective style in leadership to suit care environment.

Evaluate the effectiveness of chosen leadership style.

Supervise the leadership development of junior staff and learners.

Act in an advisory capacity in relation to clinical and professional issues for the team.

Understand the political dimensions of service development.

Ensure care delivered is person centred with inclusion of reasonable adjustments as required aligned to the protected characteristics (Equality Act 2010) namely age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, or belief, sexual orientation, and sex.

Promote and support service users (patients), carers and colleagues’ involvement in the clinical decision-making process, working closely with the multidisciplinary team in times of distress and uncertainty.

Use critical analysis skills and innovative approaches to ensure care is reviewed according to service users (patients’) needs/perspectives.

Have knowledge of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act particularly around capacity and consent, ensuring care is delivered within mental health legislation and requirements are maintained (Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Codes of Practice and Trust policies).

Function within the parameters of their professional role, ensuring own professional practice is maintained including managerial/clinical supervision, relevant statutory training, training requirements specific to role requirements.

Practice Development and Research

Demonstrate how local service delivery is provided.

Actively contribute to the improvement of service delivery and practice development.

Enable team members to inform service developments.

Create a supportive structure to aid the implementation of practice development plans.

Facilitate others to consider, reflect upon and enhance their own nursing practice.

Actively contribute to the ongoing development of nursing practice within the team.

Facilitate the use of local networks to inform the monitoring practice of service delivery.

Demonstrate service user and/or carer involvement in all aspects of service provision.

Contribute to the formulation of policies, procedures, and clinical guidelines.

Monitor adherence to locally agreed policies, procedures, and clinical guidelines.

Facilitate and lead local practice development projects i.e. PDU.

Contribute to the implementation of change in nursing practice relevant to new evidence.

Implement service changes and evaluate the impact upon service uses and/or carers.

Demonstrate an ability to lead staff in service evaluation.

Education, Training and Personal Development

Identify the educational needs of junior nursing staff and learners.

Examine different techniques towards solving problems in a critical and systematic way.

Integrate reflective practice into team working.

Disseminate evidence-base practice through educational programmes.

Construct, deliver and evaluate a programme of training with clear desired educational outcomes.

Demonstrate the ability to empower others in the identification of their strengths and weaknesses.

Enable others to devise personal and professional objectives that support personal development and career progression.

Mentor learners in accordance with the assessment and learning standard in practice (NMC) fulfilling their responsibilities as mentors and/or sign off mentors.