Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Take responsibility for ensuring effective communication between all service providers within the speciality.
- Establish and maintain good positive working relationships with key working relations.
- Create and facilitate training and support with programmes of education.
- Lead with Haemoglobinopathy training across NGH and KGH.
- Actively participate in local, national, and international networking to maintain and develop expert level of knowledge in the speciality.
- Ensure that the importance and implications of education, research, and ideas are raised in appropriate forums in appropriate forums.
- Manage a caseload of patients, as appropriate within the speciality, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care.
- Delegate a caseload of patients to team.
- Provide clinical expertise, specialist advice and support across the whole spectrum of the service.
- Demonstrate specialist knowledge, skills and innovative practice in the specialist area, ensuring the delivery of appropriate evidence-based care.
- Support, assist and encourage the multi-disciplinary team in resolving complex patient problems, by the provision of new and innovative models of case management.
- Promote the philosophy of patient centred care and establish and maintain a supportive relationship with the patient and their family at all times.
- Responsible for ensuring appropriate systems are in place to evidence ongoing compliance with local and national policies as required for CQC standards.
- Actively participate in audit and research and benchmarking activities to ensure effective safe and evidence based practice and lead for service.
- Promote and encourage nursing practice research in all relevant clinical areas.
- Promote the speciality by publishing and presenting innovations and research findings locally and nationally.
- Actively promote the specialist service throughout the Trust by establishing robust networks and links with Clinical Governance and Audit teams
- Acting on audits and research findings to inform and change practice as appropriate.
- As a clinical expert provide advice and support to assist with the management of complaints relating to the speciality and implement action plans or change of the service.
- Promote the philosophy of patient centred care and establish and maintain a supportive relationship with the patient and their family at all times.
- Promote patient and public involvement and enhancing their experience by supporting and supporting manager with implementing new initiatives relating to patient centred care.
- Provide clinical expertise, specialist advice and support across the whole spectrum of the service.
- Raise the profile of patient and public involvement by embedding this within own sphere of practice.
- Demonstrate specialist knowledge, skills and innovative practice in the specialist area, ensuring the delivery of appropriate evidence based care.
- A visible, accessible, and assertive clinical expert to which staff and users can turn to for assistance, expert advice and support.
- To be responsible for nursing practice development within the service.
- Actively participate in research and benchmarking activities to ensure effective safe and evidence based practice.
- Promote and encourage nursing practice research in all relevant clinical areas.
- Promote the speciality by publishing and presenting innovations and research findings locally and nationally.
- Nurse Led clinics.
- Liaison point of contact for patients.
- Co-ordinate hydroxycarbamide treatment.
- Education in Emergency Department and Assessment unit, as well as Haematology areas.
This job description indicates the main functions and responsibilities of the post. It is not intended to be a complete list. You may be required to undertake other duties from time to time as we may reasonably require.
The post holder will manage a small team and report to Matron.
Person specification
Educations, Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
- Holds an NMC pin
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of post-registration education and development to Masters level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
- Clinical Leadership Programme
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant clinical experience at band 6 or above
- Specialist knowledge and experience within the area of speciality
- Experience in managing a team
- Evidence of autonomous practice
Skills
Essential criteria
- Assertive and confident
- Personal and professional maturity
- Recognition of own limitations Demonstrates enthusiasm
- Evidence of change management.
- Leadership & motivation skills
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Ability to supervise
- Supervise, educate and develop others
- Ability to prioritise and organise own working day
Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's Values and Behaviours
- Able to demonstrate a commitment to and understanding of the importance of treating all individuals with dignity and respect appropriate to their individual needs.
- All staff are expected to engage in compassionate and inclusively
At Northampton General Hospital we provide general acute services and hyper-acute stroke, vascular and renal services to people living in Northamptonshire. As well as this we are an accredited cancer centre and provide cancer services to a wider population of Northamptonshire and parts of Buckinghamshire.
We celebrate staff achievements and value the importance of working as one big team. That's why we talk about Team NGH. It's all about working together to provide the best possible care for our patients and supporting each other to grow and develop our skills. We are driven to helping you to be the best you can be.
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Our Excellence Values:
- Compassion
- Respect
- Integrity
- Courageous
- Accountable
Due to the high number of applications received we are unable to respond to each application individually. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you have been unsuccessful in this application.
For further information on nursing, apprenticeships, A&E or any other departments please visit our specific website or pages that are indicated on the right hand side of this advert.
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust recognises that staff of differing backgrounds and life experiences enrich our workforce and bring different skills and knowledge. We therefore encourage and welcome applications for our vacancies from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE VACANCIES PRIOR TO THE ADVERTISED CLOSING DATE WHEN WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF SUFFICIENT APPLICATIONS
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