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Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
About
On 1 July 2014 Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust became one of the largest trusts in the UK by acquiring Barnet and Chase Farm hospitals.
Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation. Welcome to the Royal Free
Band 8a Lead Nurse
Closed for applications on: 13-May-2024 09:20
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 13-May-2024 09:20
Key details
Location
- Site
- Barnet Hospital
- Address
- Wellhouse Ln,
- Town
- Barnet
- Postcode
- EN5 3DJ
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday -Friday)
Salary
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Dermatology
Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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Job overview
The Lead Nurse Specialist Practice role will incorporate the dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management and research.
- To lead and liaise with all key members of the multidisciplinary team to advise and support colleagues in the delivery of specialised patient care across professional boundaries.
- To work autonomously to deliver specialist clinical care appropriate to the needs of the patient group and based on principles that are research based and enhance the quality of patient care.
- To undertake nurse led clinics and to be responsible for excellent standards of nursing care to patients through the planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating nurse-led clinics and services.
- To line manage clinical nurse specialists within speciality and across boundaries.
- To lead and support with specialist nursing knowledge the development, and implementation of programmes of nursing care for individual patients and the client group as a whole.
- To contribute to the facilitation of the planning, delivery and evaluation of care pathways for a designated group of patients.
- To develop and lead educational strategies/programmes for all health care professional and service users within dermatology services, contribute to training and education within specialist area.
- To act as a visible role model and expert practitioner.
Advert
Maintain a professional behaviour at all times and promote a positive image of Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust at all times, in line with World Class Care values.
- Ensure that the needs of patients are placed at the centre of care delivery, thus achieving trust and national standards for clinical quality, safety and patient experience.
- To lead, negotiate, supervise, participate in, and manage caseload of patients within nurse led clinics.
- Provide professional, clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and associated staff, and ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive nursing service.
- Collaborate on all aspects of quality management related to the nursing and clinical area.
- Assist in the evaluation of the service and patient care, including monitoring of patient experience.
- Lead the implementation of improvements in nursing practices within own areas of responsibility in line with local and national agenda and
Working for our organisation
An exciting opportunity to join our dynamic dermatology team at the Barnet and Chase Farm sites of the Royal Free Foundation Trust.
We are a tertiary service and our Dermatology provides a variety of specialised clinic across all areas of this ever growing service.
The post holder will be required to provide sound clinical expertise and provide management and leadership of Specialist Nursing Team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Act as autonomous first line of contact for patients seeking advice or support.
- Provides professional and clinical leadership, providing a highly visible and authoritative presence ensuring the delivery of excellence in core, specialist and advanced nursing practice, audit, research, and service and practice development agendas.
- To identify outcome measures which illustrate the quality of the service with a particular emphasis on establishing ways to show patient related outcome measures.
- Recognises and champions innovations in nursing practice ensuring they are supported, evaluated and contribute to develop an evidence base to meet the needs of the patients, families, relatives and staff.
- Communicates highly complex and sensitive information to patients, carers and other staff.
- Able to diffuse potentially hostile and antagonistic situations with staff, patients and relatives, using highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Contributes to service developments and innovations across the speciality and relevant external agencies, locally and nationally.
- Work with the departmental key stakeholders to rationalise, develop and implement nursing documentation ensuring that practice is standardised and monitored department wide.
- Contributes to the trust’s nursing and professional agenda and promotes the trust as an international centre of excellence and national leader in the speciality.
- Nationally aware of patient pathways and patient experience initiatives, and be able to implement these locally.
2. RESPONSIBILITY FOR POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
- Developing innovative models of care and effective patient pathways that ensure patients receive the best possible service.
- Liaise with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure seamless patient care through the development of protocols and care pathways.
- Contribute to protocols, documentation systems, standards, policies and clinical guidelines for others to use in practice.
- To work with the senior management team to ensure that divisional and trust objectives are met.
- In conjunction with the senior management team participate in business planning cycle, identifying areas of service development, focusing in particular on those related to nursing / education / training / research activities.
- Contribute to organisational development projects to transform clinical services to meet the needs of world class nursing for the future.
3. RESPONSIBILITY FOR FINANCIAL AND PHYSICAL RESOURCES
- Provide support to the team acting as an expert resource, demonstrating tenacity, drive, professional integrity, balance and perspective.
- Make effective use of resources available to support and enhance patient care.
4. RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEADING AND MANAGING
- Provide professional, clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and associated staff, and ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive nursing service.
- Contribute to the workforce and financial planning for nursing and support services within own areas of responsibility and where appropriate, work collaboratively across the trust to support these initiatives.
- Engage in the implementation of improvements in nursing practices within own areas of responsibility in line with local and national agenda and patient feedback.
- To have a thorough understanding of safeguarding procedures and knowledgeable with respect to safeguarding triggers and risks.
- To ensure the delivery and compliance of mandatory training requirements for specialist nursing team when appropriate.
5. RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION RESOURCES
- Act as a resource to nursing staff in relation to the analysis of audit and research data.
- Contributes to the development of appropriate outcomes and service impact measures to evaluate patient response and service development needs.
- Ensures all information is stored in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Caldecott guidance.
- Identify educational and training requirements on Information Resources for all relevant staff.
- Process information electronically and manually.
- Ensure information is communicated through the appropriate trust channels as required.
- Oversees high standards of record keeping within areas of responsibility.
6. RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
- To undertake relevant research including the measurement and evaluation of the service by the process of audit and patient satisfaction.
- To develop specific audits which support service improvement, or assess the benefits and outcomes following service improvements.
- To have a good understanding of the research process and current trends in relation to areas of responsibility.
- Contribute to the use of evidence to support practice and generate ideas for the potential generation of new evidence related to specialty.
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- By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we require you to complete your stat and Man e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.
- If you are an EU/EEA citizen who does not have EU Settlement or Pre-Settled status, you will require a visa to work in the UK.
- Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
- If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
- The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
- The Trust will request a DBS (CRB) if post involves regulated activities. The Trust is compliant with the Disclosure and Barring Service Codes of practice and the Rehabilitation of offenders act.
- By applying for this post you are agreeing to Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
- Please be aware of scams – unless specified above, we will only communicate with you via @recruit.trac.jobs or nhs.net e-mails and we will never ask you for any payments.
Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
Please note:
- Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
- Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
- Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
Please be advised that due to exceptionally high demand, all Royal Free accommodation is at full capacity and waiting lists are being held. Average waiting times are 12 months. Please do not rely on Trust accommodation when you commence your role and ensure you investigate alternative accommodation for your arrival.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Royal Free World Class Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered general nurse
- Relevant first degree
- Appropriate teaching certificate or extensive teaching experience
- Advanced assessment qualification
- Evidence of recent professional / management / leadership development
Desirable criteria
- Masters degree or working towards
- Non- medical prescribing course or willingness to undertake
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience in a senior nurse operational role in an acute NHS setting
- Proven ability to initiate audits/research & assess evidence
- Knowledge and experience of leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvements
- Experience of developing business and workforce plans in line with future service requirements
- Extensive knowledge and experience of practice and policy across a broad range of responsibilities, e.g. financial systems & budgetary control, corporate and clinical governance, health & safety and human resources
- Experience of motivating staff and improving individuals and team performance
- Able to build rapport and credibility with senior clinical and managerial colleagues
- Experience of managing employment relation issues
- Budgetary management skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience in running nurse led clinics
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alice Mwale
- Job title
- Nurse Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07535577039
- Additional information
Shella Sandoval
Interim Head of Nursing
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- Recruitment Support
- Open Monday to Friday
- 08:30 am to 17:30pm
- Telephone
- 01629 702338
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