Clinical Nurse Specialist- PMVA

Clinical Practice The Clinical Nurse Specialist will demonstrate a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and accountability by delivering specialised and person-centred holistic care, including assessment of clinical risk and development of management plans to reduce this.This will be delivered through advice, education, and interventions to other health care professionals across HCJ, as well as directly with service users. Will manage own caseload and undertake comprehensive history taking and assessment, which may involve physical examination, enhanced observation, define care pathway or appropriately refer onwards if necessary.Responsibilities will also include the coordination and delivery of training programmes, and evaluation of these as well as review of patient safety incidents. The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be an integral member of multidisciplinary teams and will work collaboratively in order to ensure a co-ordinated approach to person centred care, across clinical pathways and services. Advanced communication skills are essential in order to impart sensitive, complex and potentially distressing information to service users, families and carers, providing them with advice and emotional support in hospital/community. Ensuring that both staff and service users understand the information provided to them, whilst overcoming any communication barriers. Advocate for service users and their families in treatment decisions and choices ensuring a holistic approach throughout their care and treatment. Ensuring the delivery of high quality risk assessment, care planning and interventions to both reduce and manage potential violence and aggression, whilst promoting a good service user experience. Regularly seek the views and experiences of those who use their services and ensure that the voice of service users and colleagues informs training development and design. Education Act as a role model, educator, supervisor and mentor seeking to instil and develop confidence in others. Participate in supervision and keep up to date with professional development. Continually develop practice in response to changing population service need, engaging in horizon scanning for future innovations to develop. Leads on the development, delivery and evaluation of education and learning activities, specific to the area of expertise, internally and externally to the organisation as required. Will be responsible for supporting the development of policy, implementation of clinical guidelines, standards, pathways and service development within the specialist area of nursing. This includes clinical responsibility to service and care group improvement initiatives. Leadership & Management Lead new practice and service redesign solutions in response to feedback, evaluation and need. Demonstrate team leadership, resilience and determination. Provide professional and clinical advice to colleagues regarding practice and service improvement. Evaluate practice through clinical audit, and participate in multi-disciplinary service and team evaluation, demonstrating the impact of specialist clinical practice on service function and effectiveness, and quality (e.g. outcomes of care, experience and safety). Ensure appropriate safeguards are in place and advocate for the service users, communicating to appropriate agencies when there are any concerns regarding potential/actual risk to any service users or their dependents. (E.g. safeguarding, domestic violence, protection of the vulnerable adult/child, mental capacity and Significant Restriction of Liberty (SRoL). Participate in annual Performance, Review and Appraisal process ensuring that job plan is reviewed annually and demonstrates a balanced approach to clinical, administration and professional demands. Actively engage in peer review to inform own and others practice, formulating and implementing strategies to act on learning and make improvements. Research & Audit Utiliseaudit to actively engage, instigate and evaluate service provision. Work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team and service users to identify variances in service provision and to plan and implement improvements. Benchmark service provision against national standards and guidelines (e.g. NICE and relevant specialities governing bodies). Providing an annual report on service outcomes referencing key performance indicators. Critically appraise and synthesise the outcome of relevant research to underpin improvements in clinical practice. Identify, establish and ensure compliance to all legislative, HCJ policy, procedures and professional practices, in line with professional regulatory and statutory requirements. Where appropriate ensure that staff are aware of their individual responsibilities relevant to professional Codes of Practice including Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Jersey Care Commission (JCC), to enhance best practice. Support clinical teams to manage and promote the HCJ quality agenda, to include JNAAS and other key evidence-based care standards. Job description Job responsibilities Clinical Practice The Clinical Nurse Specialist will demonstrate a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and accountability by delivering specialised and person-centred holistic care, including assessment of clinical risk and development of management plans to reduce this.This will be delivered through advice, education, and interventions to other health care professionals across HCJ, as well as directly with service users. Will manage own caseload and undertake comprehensive history taking and assessment, which may involve physical examination, enhanced observation, define care pathway or appropriately refer onwards if necessary.Responsibilities will also include the coordination and delivery of training programmes, and evaluation of these as well as review of patient safety incidents. The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be an integral member of multidisciplinary teams and will work collaboratively in order to ensure a co-ordinated approach to person centred care, across clinical pathways and services. Advanced communication skills are essential in order to impart sensitive, complex and potentially distressing information to service users, families and carers, providing them with advice and emotional support in hospital/community. Ensuring that both staff and service users understand the information provided to them, whilst overcoming any communication barriers. Advocate for service users and their families in treatment decisions and choices ensuring a holistic approach throughout their care and treatment. Ensuring the delivery of high quality risk assessment, care planning and interventions to both reduce and manage potential violence and aggression, whilst promoting a good service user experience. Regularly seek the views and experiences of those who use their services and ensure that the voice of service users and colleagues informs training development and design. Education Act as a role model, educator, supervisor and mentor seeking to instil and develop confidence in others. Participate in supervision and keep up to date with professional development. Continually develop practice in response to changing population service need, engaging in horizon scanning for future innovations to develop. Leads on the development, delivery and evaluation of education and learning activities, specific to the area of expertise, internally and externally to the organisation as required. Will be responsible for supporting the development of policy, implementation of clinical guidelines, standards, pathways and service development within the specialist area of nursing. This includes clinical responsibility to service and care group improvement initiatives. Leadership & Management Lead new practice and service redesign solutions in response to feedback, evaluation and need. Demonstrate team leadership, resilience and determination. Provide professional and clinical advice to colleagues regarding practice and service improvement. Evaluate practice through clinical audit, and participate in multi-disciplinary service and team evaluation, demonstrating the impact of specialist clinical practice on service function and effectiveness, and quality (e.g. outcomes of care, experience and safety). Ensure appropriate safeguards are in place and advocate for the service users, communicating to appropriate agencies when there are any concerns regarding potential/actual risk to any service users or their dependents. (E.g. safeguarding, domestic violence, protection of the vulnerable adult/child, mental capacity and Significant Restriction of Liberty (SRoL). Participate in annual Performance, Review and Appraisal process ensuring that job plan is reviewed annually and demonstrates a balanced approach to clinical, administration and professional demands. Actively engage in peer review to inform own and others practice, formulating and implementing strategies to act on learning and make improvements. Research & Audit Utiliseaudit to actively engage, instigate and evaluate service provision. Work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team and service users to identify variances in service provision and to plan and implement improvements. Benchmark service provision against national standards and guidelines (e.g. NICE and relevant specialities governing bodies). Providing an annual report on service outcomes referencing key performance indicators. Critically appraise and synthesise the outcome of relevant research to underpin improvements in clinical practice. Identify, establish and ensure compliance to all legislative, HCJ policy, procedures and professional practices, in line with professional regulatory and statutory requirements. Where appropriate ensure that staff are aware of their individual responsibilities relevant to professional Codes of Practice including Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Jersey Care Commission (JCC), to enhance best practice. Support clinical teams to manage and promote the HCJ quality agenda, to include JNAAS and other key evidence-based care standards.