Clinical Lead and Operational Lead

Responsibilities

• Liaise with all key members of the multidisciplinary team to advise and support colleagues in the delivery of specialised patient care across professional boundaries within a virtual ward setting.
• Work autonomously to deliver high level 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.
• Undertake nurse‑led care and be responsible for excellent standards of nursing care to patients through the planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating nurse‑led services.
• Line‑manage clinical nurse specialists within speciality and across boundaries.
• 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.
• Contribute to the facilitation of the planning, delivery and evaluation of care pathways for a designated group of patients.
• Contribute to training and education within the specialist area.
• Promote an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through reviewing the evidence base and embedding this in practice through engagement in research activities, including QI work.
• Maintain a professional behaviour at all times and promote a positive image of Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust 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.
• Lead, negotiate, supervise, participate in, and manage caseload of patients within nurse‑led clinics both on and off site using advanced clinical assessment skills and clinical judgement to take a detailed history, physically assess, make any required differential diagnosis, order any tests or investigations required to confirm diagnosis, prescribe medication, evaluate and review treatment plan.
• Make any alterations in the patient’s current treatment plan or drug regimen required in response to evaluating test and investigation results or changes in patients’ condition. Use advanced clinical knowledge and expertise in undertaking clinical assessments in partnership with patients and other professionals, using agreed protocols, but also where there are no appropriate precedents.
• 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 and ensuring this is fed back to patients and the wider team.
• Lead the implementation of improvements in nursing practices within own areas of responsibility in line with local and national agenda and patient feedback.
• Have a thorough understanding of safeguarding procedures and be knowledgeable with respect to safeguarding triggers and risks.
• Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own clinical and professional activities.
• Recognise the limits of own clinical knowledge and skills and seek medical support whenever needed to provide safe, effective and timely patient care.
• Taking account of national policy, ensure that core, specialist and advanced nursing practice is developed to meet service need, through the JD Template use of research and evidence based practice, ensuring they are linked to the clinical governance and patient safety agendas.
• Contribute to the investigation of complaints and untoward incidents and ensure recommendations and related education/training programmes/action plans are implemented.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Olusheyi Johnson

Job title:

Unplanned care Services Lead
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