Person specification
Qualifications
Experience
Essential
To have substantial clinical experience within a cardiology unit or an acute medical department.
To use extensive clinical knowledge/expertise, to provide a high standard of skilled care to patients based on a full assessment of individual needs in co-operation with the multi-disciplinary team.
To oversee the quality of care for complex patients with their potentially unpredictable care/treatment needs which may apply to single patient care and/or multiple patients across the clinical area.
In collaboration with patients, family and the multi-disciplinary team, use a range of communication, judgement and assessment skills to plan, deliver/implement and evaluate complex care plans based on the initial patient assessment process, with realistic nursing goals and participate in discharge planning.
To be able to prioritise care based upon patient/service need in a busy clinical environment.
To deliver patient care through appropriate delegation, responding to frequent changes in needs and/or environment. This will include staff rota management, complex discharge planning involving coordination with other healthcare professionals.
To evaluate the effectiveness of the education of patients, relatives and staff and, in collaboration with the ward/department manager, senior leadership and specialist teams, plan and implement programmes to meet those needs.
To manage own patient workload in terms of prioritisation of needs escalating as required and supporting junior team members with their own escalation needs.
To be able undertake complex nursing interventions for example: administrating medications, catheter insertion, complex wound management.
To be able to undertake frequent moving and handling tasks relating to patient care utilising mechanical aids with some tasks requiring moderate effort.
The post holder will have exposure to bodily fluids (including as a result of surgical / medical intervention and in the delivery of activities of daily living) and will have frequent exposure to difficult or emotional circumstances.
To be able to effectively communicate complex, confidential, and/or sensitive condition related information through a range of interpersonal skills to patients, colleagues, and families (such as providing educational support, complex discharge planning).
The post holder will be responsible for responding to and investigating clinical incidents, handling complaints, and managing patient feedback as part of the service, while ensuring the maintenance of patient key performance indicators (KPIs).
To act in a professional manner and as a role model to other staff members, providing clinical supervision to all staff groups and disciplines as well as patients and their families.
To understand the process of escalation within the Trust ensuring this is done promptly to ensure patient and staff safety and recognising and raising any safeguarding concerns.
To plan and organise the running of the department including line management of staff within their teams overseeing safe staffing and a safe working environment, complex work planning requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison to understand the use of different options including allocating team members or activities based on individual situations to meet organisational requirements.
To be a budget holder and authorised signatory for department/service.
To regularly review, evaluate, make recommendations and lead on response to areas of practice and policies that would benefit from improvement.
To be guided by Trust policies and procedures and knowing when to appropriately escalate and to act independently within the NMC Code of Conduct.
To ensure link nurse roles (allocated areas of expertise) are undertaken, all necessary audits are completed as required and may occasionally participate in research and development.
To maintain accurate electronic and/or manual clinical, patient and other records, as appropriate, ensuring that all documentation adheres to the Trust's standards.
Additional Criteria