Non-Medical Prescriber

Band 7 nurses work closely with the people who use our services, families, friends and carers are responsible for how people experience our services. Band 7 nurses are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and lead in the quality of the nursing services we provide by:

• keeping the people who use our services as safe as possible by ensuring the nurses in the team use sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments
• Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by leading nurses in using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures
• Ensuring the people using our services have good experience by leading nurses in respect, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process, Being confident, autonomous practitioners who take responsibility for the care they give to patients but also take responsibility for overseeing the work of others in the team including less experienced nurses and staff without a professional qualification
• Providing skilled, evidence-based nursing care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures
• Working with patients and families in all stages of the care planning process including assessing risks and needs
• Acting as patient advocates in the multi-disciplinary team and overseeing the work of others to ensure that they are also responding to the needs of patients and providing clinically effective care
• Contributing to creating and maintaining high performing teams
• Reflecting on their own practice regularly and encouraging the whole team to reflect on their practices in handovers and team meetings
• Encouraging the team to learn from adverse events or respond to data analysis from audits or benchmarking exercises and implement sustainable initiatives which improve clinical outcomes
• Ensure appropriate allocation of caseload and nursing duties for the nurses in the team. Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 7 nurses to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends family and carers and also other staff members.

As a Band 7 nurse we expect you to show COMPASSION, lead in the management of a caring and kind environment and recognize that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better. We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people's differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic. We expect you to EMPOWER others in the way that you lead and manage the team and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.

We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.