NursingNetUK

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Quality and Performance

·         Robustly reviewing key performance measures and reporting frameworks in line with strategic aims. 

·         Leading the achievement of key performance targets and contractual obligations including SLAs, CQC, Core Skills Training Framework England, meeting legislation, policies and procedures for all resuscitation and manual handling education services. 

·         Contributing to the monitoring and reviewing of business performance within resuscitation and manual handling education, reporting on performance internally and externally to the Trust, instigating remedial action where necessary. 

·         Monitor, evaluate and develop resuscitation and manual handling education services. 

·         Provide resuscitation and manual handling education and training within the framework of all educational contracts, supporting trust employees across the organisation to provide comprehensive services and to plan, deliver and evaluate teaching activities.

·         Ensure data collection and reporting processes for quality purposes and evidence and systems for robust reporting for education governance and quality assurance.

·         Manage Datix reports and investigations relevant to resuscitation and manual handling incidents to promote learning.

·         Acts as an accredited course instructor and director for RCUK Courses, ensuring all course regulations are met and the Trust meets requirements for the 4 yearly Course Center Assessment.

  Patient Safety/Governance   

·         Implementation and monitoring of appropriate governance and risk systems, ensuring that resuscitation and manual handling education services adhere to the Trust Risk Management policy and procedures, reporting and proactively finding solutions to address risk, monitoring progress on mitigation plans. 

·         Supporting a learning organisational culture to review risk, learning from incidents and near misses, by leading a solution focused approach to review, ensuring that lessons are learned and shared. 

·         To support the implementation of the Trust’s Clinical Governance, Health and Safety and Risk Management policies relevant to resuscitation and manual handling education and actively participate in governance activities to ensure that the highest standards of training and education are in place, working to ensure the Trust operates in an effective, honest, and open way.

·         Develop and implement resuscitation and manual handling education policies and procedures, aligned to national guidance.

·         To actively participate in the Trust’s Governance and Quality review meetings to establish education and development needs through “Learning from Incidents”.

·         To act as the Trust subject specialist expert for resuscitation clinical practice, attending clinical emergency 2222 calls to ensure maintenance of clinical competencies.

·         Support clinical staff in hot and cold debrief following clinical emergencies.

·         Providing support for Trust PSIRF measures, in relation to resuscitation and manual handling issues.

·         Provide expert support to the Trust Resuscitation Committee Chair, ensuring that the activity aligns to the RCUK Standards.

·         Take responsibility for the Trust Resuscitation committee’s secretariat function, taking and disseminating minutes of meetings and advising on operational and educational matters relating to resuscitation. 

Service Improvement

·         Encouraging a climate that allows staff and learners to question and redefine how their work is undertaken ensuring the on-going development of patient centred care, staff and learner experience, and cost-effective use of resources. 

·         Redefining future orientated staff and learner pathways to improve standards of education, address governance issues, improve efficiency and income. 

·         Leading on the project management of service developments to ensure key targets are achieved, including cross cutting themes and pathways, contributing to the delivery of transformational work streams.

 Principles & Values

·         Acting in accordance with Code of Conduct for NHS Managers, Nursing & Midwifery Council / HCPC, and other relevant professional bodies.

·         Leading by example in the promotion of values, standards, and behaviour within the delivery of improved services, meeting requirements of Trust policy on equality, diversity, and inclusion. 

·         Uphold ethics and values; demonstrate integrity; promotes and defends equal opportunities, build diverse teams.

·         Maintain active NMC / HCPC registration and all revalidation requirements.

·         Maintain active RCUK Instructor and Course Director status.

Team Working   

·         Support the development of all staff within the resuscitation and manual handling education service to ensure that services are led by competent, capable, high performing teams and individuals. 

·         Support staff health and well-being and provide support for staff to manage their working lives, including application of Trust People and Workforce policy as and when required.

·         Show respect for the views and contributions of other team members; shows empathy; listens, supports and cares for others; consults others and shares information and expertise with them; builds team spirit and reconciles conflict; adapts to team and fits in well.

·         Ensure multi-professional and multi-disciplinary learning is developed and promoted through liaising with other educational leads. 

 Communication   

·         Demonstrating effective communication in delivering key messages with clarity and succinctly whilst ensuring that the main message is clear. 

·         Promote and present highly complex and often highly contentious information in a way to suit audiences at all levels across the Trust where significant barriers and resistance to change may be present.

·         Use information in a timely way to monitor trends in activity, finance, human resources, incidents, and complaints.

·         Provide reports and present analysis in concise and understandable form to engage action.

 Accountability & Responsibility   

·         Being a role model and leader to all staff across the organisation, demonstrating values led attitude, a coaching style of leadership and a high level of skill in giving and receiving constructive feedback. 

·         Being a visible leader, encouraging staff to contribute to transformation of resuscitation and manual handling education services, ensuring a high quality and efficient approach to service delivery. 

·         Has defined budgetary responsibility devolved from the Head of Practice Education within the resuscitation and manual handling education service, managing resources, and submitting reports and NHSE WTE returns as required. Working closely with management accounts to ensure systems are in place to monitor and audit the appropriate use of funds. Specifically, the budgets within resuscitation and manual handling education, HEI and NHSE WTE associated finances. 

·         Providing clinical and educational expertise to the Trust learning panels to ensure appropriate spend and accountability for the CPD finances within the Trust. 

Line Management

·         Provide effective management to individuals and teams within sphere of responsibility, leading accountable members of staff to implement on-going change and development.

·         Apply Trust People and Workforce policies and practices for staff e.g. recruitment, employee relations, appraisals, and individual performance reviews etc.

·         Provide specialist knowledge of the resuscitation and manual handling education service and senior management support to all staff within the  team, specifically for the Resuscitation Officers and Manual Handling Tutor post holders.

·         Responsible for day-to-day management and promotion of all aspects of the resuscitation and manual handling education service functions.

 Knowledge & Expertise   

·         Ensuring that research, audit, data, and information are used to shape and influence strategic direction for the resuscitation and manual handling education service, and directly influences decision making prior to developing business cases, submitting bids and plans. 

·         Ensuring that on-going quality, innovation, and service improvement plans are underpinned by a strong evidence base for improving patient, staff, and learner outcomes and/or patient, staff and learner experience, and in line with service strategies and business plans. 

·         Gathers comprehensive information to support decision making; encourages an organisational learning approach (i.e. learns from successes and failures and seeks learner, staff, and service user feedback.

·         Provide specialist knowledge and advice and guidance on resuscitation and manual handling education related matters for all learners, staff and managers in the Trust.