Clinical Nurse Specialist

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Heart Failure Nurse SpecialistThe post will incorporate the Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) role dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management and research.The Lead Nurse CNS role for heart failure in the Virtual Ward will incorporate the dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management and research. The post holder will be required: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.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 care and to be responsible for excellent standards of nursing care to patients through the planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating nurse-led clinics and services.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 contribute to training and education within specialist areaMain duties of the jobMaintain 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 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 & investigation results or changes in patients' condition. Use advanced clinical knowledge & expertise in undertaking clinical assessments in partnership with patients and other professionals, using agreed protocols, but also where there are no appropriate precedentsProvide professional, clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and associated staff and ensure the provision of a high-quality, responsive nursing service.About usNorth Middlesex University Hospital is part of the North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICSs, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.Take a tour of our hospital hereJob responsibilitiesAct 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 in line with national targets 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 whilst promoting a culture of shared decision making across all sites to support patients through the decision making process.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.Contributes to the trusts 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 working together with patient groupsDeveloping innovative models of care and effective patient pathways using QI and CPG methodology that ensure patients receive the best possible service which is delivered closer to patients homes.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.Person SpecificationEducation & professional QualificationsRelevant qualification and experience in the specialtyExperienceSubstantial experience in a senior nurse operational role in a Community NHS settingExperience in running nurse led clinics pathwaysKnowledge and experience of leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvementsSkills and AptitudesExcellent communication skills and highly developed interpersonal and influencing skillsAbility to act autonomously in planning & implementing tasksAbility to organize diverse teams to deliver high standard of patient careDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.£61,631 to £68,623 a yearPer Annum Including HCAS #J-18808-Ljbffr