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Location
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk | United Kingdom
Job description
Key Tasks & Responsibilities: To ensure the safe, effective and efficient management of the department within allocated resources, including the budget, staffing levels and quality standards. Deliver direct and indirect nursing care, providing clinical leadership, and acting as an expert practitioner and role model. To facilitate the professional development of all staff members within the team. To provide an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through research and evidence-based practice. Be responsible for providing effective liaison and communication networks with all multidisciplinary professionals, internal and external to the Trust. Management Responsibility Responsibility for the provision of service, ensuring an optimum level of safe and effective care within budgetary resources. Overall responsibility for duty rotas, providing optimum skill-mix, whilst utilising resources to maximum potential. Contribute to the planning, monitoring and control of ward resources assisting the Senior Matron of Neonatal Services to keep expenditure within budget and help to achieve a year-end budget balance. Contribute to the identification of resource implications of service developments and assist in the preparation of business cases and reports as necessary. Deliver direct and indirect neonatal nursing care, acting as an expert practitioner and a role model to the whole team. Liaise with all health professionals and support staff to ensure the best services possible. Ensure on-going clinical and non-clinical performance review as a means of promoting good staff morale, building skills, competence and standards. Create a culture that values and supports staff, enabling staff to reach their full potential and possess a high degree of personal and professional job satisfaction. Undertake annual staff appraisals, building personal development plans in order for staff to achieve their objectives by providing ongoing support and expert leadership. Facilitate the development of all grades of nursing staff in management and leadership skills. Including the development of Band 6 management and leadership skills. To ensure that all staff know where to access trust policies and clinical procedure guidelines and that staff adhere to these at all times. In conjunction with the Governance Lead and Senior Matron be responsible for the implementation of clinical governance and improvement agenda in the department. Initiate and develop audits of service delivery and implementation of findings to improve patient care. Risk Assessments undertakes continuous risk assessments and evaluation. Report complaints and untoward incidents using the Datix system, investigate as necessary and be proactive in preventing further incidents. Increase own knowledge of project management processes and develop own skills base in change management. Lead with Senior Matron in recruitment, selection and induction process to facilitate acquisition and retention of competent, skilled and knowledgeable staff who will meet the clinical and service needs of the department. Responsible for the operational management of personnel issues such as the management of sickness absence, including interviewing staff following each episode of sickness, taking appropriate action in line with Trust policy. Working with the Practice Development Nurse, ensure that staff are competent in the use of equipment, and support their needs within this area. Ensure that the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act are observed and European Economic Community (EEC), Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) regulations implemented. To participate in the Manager On Call rota for Maternity and Neonatal Services. This cover runs 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 per year. Participate in conjunction with the Electro-Biomedical Engineering (EBME) staff, the evaluation of new or modified equipment. In conjunction with the Senior Matron, monitor parent user satisfaction and investigate complaints and incidents in a proactive manner, ensuring appropriate action is taken to address issues raised through a positive learning culture. Clinical Responsibilities Maintain expert clinical skills by regularly working as part of the ward team. Act as a role model, providing clinical leadership, maintaining staff morale and promote effective team- work. Participate in clinical ward rounds if required to encourage and support nursing staff during discussions regarding care. Alongside the Senior Matron Supervise, monitor and advise on programmes of care and facilitate optimum standards, ensuring continuous development of evidence-based practice. Communicate with parents, relatives and staff using a high level of skills in response to a diverse range of complex situations. In conjunction with the Named Nurse and Named Midwife Safeguarding Children, recognise, assess, plan and implement strategies to protect vulnerable babies and families. Facilitate effective communication and liaison with the multidisciplinary team, and ensure a unified approach to service development. Take overall responsibility for co-ordinating the clinical management of nursing care and discharge planning. With the neonatal clinical lead, develop evidence-based clinical care pathways, and contribute to the development of Trust-wide policies, protocols and guidelines. Professional Responsibilities Demonstrate knowledge of professional issues as stated in the Nursing Midwifery Councils Professional Code of Conduct. Exercise professional accountability and uphold the Nursing and Midwifery Councils Code of Professional Conduct. Use reflection to formulate and prioritise areas for self- development. Develop and maintain own professional knowledge and skills through lifelong learning. Network with professional colleagues within the directorate, throughout the Trust, and within the East of England Neonatal Operational Delivery Network to ensure best practices are shared and improvements made in neonatology. Actively participate in local and national networking to maintain and develop expert levels of service knowledge. Be responsible for action to be taken in event of fire, child abduction and major accident, ensuring that staff are updated in these procedures. Be responsible for the health, safety and welfare of staff, patients, and the public. Awareness of key national drivers relating to Neonatal care. Education Responsibility Working with the Practice Development Nurse to create a proactive teaching and learning culture by ensuring the development and maintenance of education programmes for all members of staff. Take an active role in facilitating the training of staff by planning/participating in appropriate orientation/educational programmes and initiating training programmes for new service developments. Ensure there is a framework of supervision/ assessment and preceptorship throughout the team, and audit and monitor effectiveness of learning for both staff and students. Provide practical support by working alongside nursing staff as a clinical and educational adviser. Maintain knowledge of neonatal services and development within the profession, disseminating this information to all nursing staff. Encourage and promote continual quality improvement and implementation of evidence-based practice, where necessary facilitating and managing change. Participate in local and regional bench marking groups and facilitate change as a result.
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Salary
£43.74k - £50.06k per annum
