The appointee will serve as a professional exemplar, leading clinical operations, managing, and overseeing all aspects of the Critical Care Outreach Teams' (CCOT) nursing and educational activities. They will consistently ensure that patient and caregiver perspectives inform service development. Additionally, they will oversee policies, procedures, and practices concerning deteriorating patients, the acutely ill, Sepsis, NEWS scoring, and Martha's Law, and will actively participate in and contribute to trust-wide meetings and the advancement of new initiatives related to these areas.

Main duties of the job

Main Tasks & Responsibilities:

o Provide direct and indirect patient/customer care.o Oversee day-to-day management of the CCOT and other personnel under your supervision.o Ensure a clean and comfortable patient environment, taking proactive action if domestic, catering, or other related contract requirements are not met.o Ensure staff adherence to infection control policies.o Champion and translate current trends and developments in nursing and the NHS into practice.o Develop systems that encourage reflection on practice to inform patient care delivery.o Support nursing staff in advancing clinical practice through research and evidence-based practice.o Maintain audit and quality monitoring systems for effective care delivery.o Offer expertise to any member of the multi-disciplinary team regarding patient care.o Investigate complaints, accident reports, and untoward incidents within your teams, implementing action recommendations in line with the Trust's Clinical Governance framework and Directorate Quality Board.o Contribute to the Trust's Clinical Governance program.

About us

The Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals are the largest heart and lung centre in the UK, with an international reputation for innovation and leadership in treatment and education and are now part of the Guys and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust.An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Critical Care Department for an enthusiastic and innovative nurse leader to join our team, which is led by the Critical Care Matrons. This new band 8A post would be suitable for a an individual who has a keen interest and background in Critical Care Outreach and cardiothoracic services.The successful candidate will need to be highly self-motivated, be able to demonstrate advanced communication, interpersonal and organizational skills and be able to work autonomously as well as within the Critical care and hospital wide teams.

The post holder will be based at Harefield Hospital, but some cross-site working may be required

Job description

Job responsibilities

- Ensure service developments are guided by the perspectives of users.

- Participate in the business planning process, advocating for the nursing perspective and the Critical Care Outreach Team (CCOT).

- Actively foresee and prepare for service changes due to evolving internal and external factors. Initiate and conduct meetings with other Trusts/stakeholders to oversee service progress.

- Align the advancement of nursing practices with national directives.

- Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to assess clinical practices and initiate new clinical projects.

- Together with Matrons/divisional managers, appraise methods for setting objectives and benchmarking care standards to ensure they are founded on evidence. Create tools to enhance service quality throughout the unit and related services.

- Guide the CCOT in pinpointing service improvements and aid in developing business cases.

- Direct the CCOT nursing teams to achieve the objectives and targets of the Heart Division.

- Support nursing staff in leading the ongoing professional development of both unit staff and themselves, ensuring alignment with service evolution and the business planning cycle.

- Help other Matrons/divisional managers foster and assess a conducive learning environment, promoting nursing audits and research across the division with the aid of audit tools.

- Assess the effective application of research outcomes.

- Encourage the CCOT's involvement in research initiatives and support the implementation of evidence-based practices.

- Establish and supervise robust audit systems to shape clinical practice and promote research in nursing within the clinical area.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• oRN Level 1 (Degree in nursing related subject) or equivalent experience
• Physical Assessment course
• oEvidence of specialist higher education including short courses at Master's level or equivalent experience
• ALS/CALS provider

Desirable

• MSc in relevant subject
• ALS/CALS instructor

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• oPost registration specialist experience at Band 7 or above
• Experience in managing staff
• oSpecialist knowledge of Critical Care patients and working within the CCOT

Desirable

• oVaried clinical experience including critical care, cardiothoracics, transplantation, and cardiology.

Skills and abilities

Essential

• Leadership skills

Desirable

• Evidence of research and audit

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Harefield Hospital

Hill End Road,

Harefield

UB9 6JH

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