NursingNetUK

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To clinically lead a team to provide highly specialised clinical care and advice and support to service users and 
the wider healthcare team – this will include clinical assessment, diagnostic skills, non-medical 
prescribing and implementation of management and treatment plans. 
2. Be responsible for the delivery of the service within the different care delivery settings.
3. Work cooperatively and collaboratively with other services/stakeholders to enable service users are 
treated in the most appropriate setting and at the centre of the care delivery process.
4. Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its clients by providing caseload management 
support and clinical supervision. 
5. Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing 
a responsive service to service users with both planned and unplanned care needs. 
6. Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the 
clinical environment.
7. Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy. 
8. Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
9. Acts as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups 
and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
10. Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business 
continuity. 
11. Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making. 
12. Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the wider healthcare when managing complex and highly 
complex situations. 
13. Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly 
complex clinical care.
14. Following holistic assessment of health needs, develop specialist individualised care plans to fulfil 
those needs, with the involvement of patients/clients and carers. 
15. Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs. 
16. Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health 
promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long-term conditions 
and end of life/palliative care. 
17. Set objectives by which performance will be monitored alongside team leader. 
18. Work with operational service manager and service lead to deliver local based services, by 
participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to staff. 
19. Work in collaboration with others to support practice development and service modernisation. 
20. Contribute to the development of role and service redesign. 
21. Actively participate in policy and service development authoring protocols as required.
22. Support Team Leader to provide induction to the local working environment, and policies for new team members and 
students.
23. Monitor budgets reporting over/under spending to the budget holder. 
24. Complete PACE reviews of team members as per trust expectation
25. Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect local needs.
26. Ensure that administration and clerical duties are appropriately delegated to clerical support officers.
27. Support Team Leader to provide data that supports the monitoring of team contract and objectives. 
28. Participate in audits and research, as required.
29. Participate in individual and group supervision. 
30. Support with the implementation of mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.
31. Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional standards.
32. Initiate training and development of team members. Monitor and maintain standards of patient care 
delivery. Including maintaining and monitoring of clinical competency and standards of record 
keeping 
33. In conjunction with the Operational Manager and service lead, ensure systems are in place for the 
ongoing review and assessment of care provision and delivery.
34. Work within guidelines to identify and management of risk, Reporting and escalating as appropriate.
35. Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated 
by the operational Service manager and service lead. 
36. Monitor and ensure that the quality of the patient care delivered by the team is evidenced based and 
supported by best practice, through the use of audit, caseload and clinical supervision. 
37. Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
38. Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.
39. Support with the identification of skills deficits within the team and identify methods of addressing 
these to support service delivery, improvement and development.
40. Monitor and ensure the team/service meet requirements as expected with regards to team 
performance as per trust expectation.
41. Ensure the team is compliant in meeting and participating in the quality and governance framework 
within the division.
42. Support students and other learners to achieve competency and mentor student and preceptors to 
achieve their learning outcomes through the development of a supportive learning environment. 
43. Support the Team Leader to lead the team to develop, implement and delivery local development plans and projects related to 
the delivery of education and training across the service line and wider organisation with integration 
at the centre of delivery. Provide training sessions to Mersey Care Staff as part of the competency 
framework/specific sessions relating to patient’s needs. Sessions as deemed appropriate to external 
partners to support patient care delivery.