Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Professional Practice

·         To adhere to the NMC Code (2018), alongside Trust Policies and procedures.  

·         As a clinician to embrace and implement the vision and values at HHFT.

·         To be responsible for contributing to the creation and maintenance of a clinical environment in which care and compassion is consistently demonstrated, ensuring patient centred care, privacy and dignity is practiced at all times.

·         To adhere to the trust and local Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy at all times

·         To support the team to ensure and maintaining a high quality seven-day, twenty-four-hour service for all aspects of their work and the staff in their area /department.

·         To maintain, develop and record your own continuing professional development, including booking and attending all statutory, mandatory and Trust or speciality specific training

·         To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable as a practitioner for all aspects of the practitioner’s own professional activities.

·         To deputise for the team leaders to achieve the effective daily management of the ward/department including responding to urgent requests, prioritising clinical work, and balancing other patient related and professional activities in accordance with trust standards.

• Highly developed physical skills for accuracy e.g. of assessment, treatment administration, manipulation of equipment

Communication:

·         To be personally competent to assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.

·         To ensure that you communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to seriously ill patients, carers and other staff, including imparting unwelcome news and ensuring understanding of their condition. e.g. patients who are dysphasic, deaf, blind or have difficulty accepting the diagnosis and act as a patients advocate.

·         To use effective communication skills of negotiation, persuasion and empathy to enable timely and effective communication in own team the wider MDT team and other agencies.

·         To develop personal capability to optimally support staff who may be in distress or requiring support and then to address issues which may be affecting their performance To ensure that you appropriately regard the individual customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients and staff

·         To empower and motivate those around you to constantly strive to improve care and experience for patients and staff.

Planning and Organisation:

·         To deputise for the team leader in managing the day to day on-going operational requirements of the clinical area, with authority to make decisions as required, keeping the line manager informed as appropriate and escalating issues in a timely fashion if required

·         To delegate tasks effectively within the team, to optimise skill mix, flexibility and responsiveness of the team whilst retaining the professional responsibility of appropriate delegation

·         To deal with any issues of professional behaviour or attitudes, quality or safety in the moment.

·         To record and report adverse and potentially adverse events to the team leaders, and assist with the investigation of such events, ensuring learning is shared with the wider team

·         To ensure all care delivered empowers patients to recover their independence at the earliest opportunity

·         To support the team leaders in ensuring safe and effective clinical services – assisting in formulating and adjusting rotas to ensure appropriate number and skill of workforce available when required by the service, meeting the Trusts on-going requirements for roster management, supporting other clinical areas as required

·         To take responsibility to ensure that staff for whom you have delegated responsibility are released for statutory/mandatory and clinical skills/lead training.

·         To assist in organising and planning complex case conferences, ensuring patient, carers and the correct range of professions/agencies are included.

Teaching, Training and Research Responsibilities

·         To have a clinical knowledge across a range of work practices

·         To be aware of the evidence base, current national developments within the speciality and to utilise this knowledge and best practice in supporting the development of clinical services

·         To support the team in maintaining maintain a broad, clinical skill set within the team to ensure high quality and compassionate care for all patients presenting to the clinical area

·         To be personally competent to support the development of clinical competency within the clinical area, by assisting in drug and clinical assessments for own staff and to support other areas as needed

·         To assist in the delivery of appropriate aspects of the Trust wide clinical skills training, working collaboratively with clinical specialist colleagues and supported by the Education team

·         To assist with the management of assistants through delegation of tasks to assistant grades of staff, monitoring the standards of work through the competency framework

·         To assist in the effective induction and orientation of new staff, to meet specific needs e.g. staff on probationary contracts.

·         To support the achievement of clinical standards and to regularly audit and implement actions to maintain and improve quality and safety.

·         To have an understanding of the methodology of critically reviewing evidence and regularly conduct surveys and audits.