Deputy Clinical Lead @home

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

Risk & clinical governance:

• Ensure patients are cared tor through the highest level of clinical competence and best practice.
• Manage and respond to complaints and adverse incidents.
• Undertake root cause analysis and develop action plans, ensuring that this leads to change in practice.
• Establish and maintain effective communication with staff, patients, and relatives.
• Contribute to active resolution of potentially complex situations, conflicts and issues.
• Lead on the implementation of patient safety strategies.
• Share best practice and drive improvements in patient care.
• In conjunction with the Service Manager/Clinical Lead be responsible for monitoring and maintaining excellent clinical standards.

Professional leadership and staff management:

• Provide professional and clinical leadership to any assigned @home staff.
• Develop the specialist contribution nursing can make to the service.
• Develop interdisciplinary care in leadership, clinical practice, education and development.
• Ensure that nursing and other staff comply with Trust-wide policies and procedures.
• To Deputise for Clinical Lead/manager as necessary.
• To cover for other @home matrons as required.
• Represent the service and Trust at local and National forums promoting achievements in professional development and patient care.
• Assist in the bench marking of nursing practice and evaluate the impact on new practices implemented.
• Manage and respond to complaints and adverse incidents.

Performance management:

• To manage the delivery of all nursing aspects of the agreed outputs for their area of responsibility by ensuring that effective action is taken where nursing performance is at risk of falling below expected levels and standards are not maintained, and that the Trust’s Nursing and Midwifery priorities are implemented.
• To ensure compliance and implementation of Trust policies and procedures relevant legislation, Nursing and Midwifery strategy and Clinical Governance standards are understood and practised by staff.

Departmental & staff organisation:

Work in collaboration with colleagues across the @home service to support the development of an appropriate skill mix in relation to competencies, activity and acuity. Manage and report any risk issues to the Service Manager/Clinical Lead

Education, training and staff development

• Ensure all clinicians maintain high professional standards through and competency development, and appraisal to meet agreed core nursing objectives in line with CQC standards and service outcomes relevant to their role.
• Identify training and development needs of staff within the @home service in accordance with local and national policies and to meet departmental and corporate objectives.
• To ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, social and cultural circumstances, religious beliefs and doctrines.
• Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
• Create a climate of research awareness which promotes evidence-based practice including e.g. ‘journal clubs’, multidisciplinary teaching and encourage and support @home staff to undertake and participate in research studies.
• To be a source of highly specialist clinical and educational knowledge and along with other Matrons develop clinical supervision programmes and appropriate external supervision.
• Coordinate training programmes to expand clinical skills e.g. advanced clinical assessment and non-medical prescribing intravenous drugs, cannulation, phlebotomy, recording ECGs which are acceptable to and certifiable by the Trust; facilitate access to courses etc.
• Be responsible for the development and co-ordination of training programmes for staff in conjunction with Training and Development department.
• Lead the development and coordinate the review of education, training and development business plans. Act as representative in course management and curricula development forums and liaise with Higher Education Institutes in order to present future educational and development needs of the @home service.
• Tailor a programme of departmental orientation and development for new staff members which takes account of the specific service needs and focus on acute care provided by the @home service within patients’ home environment
• Work in conjunction with Matrons to ensure staff are trained as preceptors and assessors to support pre and post-registration students and new staff members of the MDT.
• In conjunction with Matrons support staff in developing knowledge and skills to complete clinical and legal nursing documents ensuring they are completed accurately, their relevance understood confidentiality maintained in accordance with Trust policy and NMC guidelines.
• Participate in the training of staff to monitor the quality of care delivered using clinical standards and take necessary action to ensure excellence in nursing practice.
• Participate in Individual Performance Review of staff as appropriate
• Coordinate the record of staff training, and any other data that may be reasonably requested for audit purposes. Protects patient confidentiality and acts according to the Data Protection Act.

Financial management

• Act as an authorising signatory within agreed limits as required.
• Monitor assigned budget ensuring effective budget management.
• Oversee educational and development resources on behalf of the Service Manager and provide quarterly reports.

Research and Development

• Ensure evidence-based, reflective and compassionate care and practice is embedded in the @home service and accords with relevant national and local guidance and standards.
• Actively disseminate research findings as a positive role model through lectures, teaching and other appropriate communication methods
• Assist in the bench marking of nursing practice and evaluate the impact on new practices implemented.
• To work closely with other lead nurses, link tutors, practice teachers and Matrons to ensure that placements are well supported and understand how.

General

• Act in accordance with the Nursing & Midwifery Council Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice and be accountable for his/her actions at all times.
• Maintain up-to-date records. Ensuring that confidentiality is respected and that the standards for Record Keeping are met.