Senior Clinical Site Practitioner

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for full details.

Leadership

• Assist in the resolution of any Clinical Site Management or Hospital at Night service issues within the trust, taking an active part in the investigation/resolution of both formal and informal complaints and adverse incidents.
• Act as clinical leader across the 24/7 period.

Operational Management

• Accountable 'out of hours' for the operational management of the Trust, implementing Policies and Procedures as required and providing support and advice to patients, staff and visitors.
• Organise the provision of a safe environment for both patients and staff in accordance with Trust policy.

Clinical and Professional Issues

• To adhere to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• To ensure that the NMC revalidation process is completed within the prescribed time frame.
• To be fully conversant with and adhere to Trust Policies and Procedures.
• Provide a clinically credible nursing-led out of hour's service; as the practitioner responsible for the assessment of patients' needs and deployment of appropriate resources to meet them.
• During the out of hours period, act as first responder to ward and department patient issues and liaise with the on-call medical teams to ensure that the most appropriate person sees and treats any patient in an appropriate, timely and safe manner.

Advanced Clinical Practice

• Work as a fully accredited Advanced Clinical Practitioner to undertake the following:
• Cannulation and Venepuncture
• Verification of death
• Ordering, interpreting and acting upon X-Rays and imaging.
• Procuring and analysing ABGs
• Tracheostomy care
• NIV and Optiflow
• Catheterisation (male and female)
• Independent/Non-medical Prescriber

Bed Management

• Review the Trusts bed capacity as a whole and implement plans early to prevent bed problems occurring throughout the out of hour's period and ensure that beds are utilised efficiently.
• Support the work of the Bed Managers by ensuring any unresolved issues from the daytime period are dealt with in an appropriate and timely fashion, including the management of outstanding elective/tertiary admissions.
• Ensure bed management is proactive and the A&E targets, in relation to bed management are met fully.
• Ensure the smooth transition of patients from the A&E/Clinics/Critical Care area to an appropriate ward within a timely manner, assessing patients' suitability to transfer as required.
• Actively identify and resolve delays in patients moving from the A&E and between departments. Working towards creating plans to prevent them happening again in the future.

Education and Research

• Lead on the development of the educational environment by actively contributing to the training and education of staff.
• Be aware of and contribute to new nursing research which will underpin future nursing practice.
• Promote and facilitate evidence based practice and clinical audit within the trust, raising the profile and enhancing the contribution of nursing to patient care.
• Participate in and assist with any appropriate trust approved research projects.

Communication

• Provide a calm and supportive approach to situations.
• Be flexible and empathise with difficult situations.
• Provide support and counselling when necessary .

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Strong demonstrable team leadership skills
• Minimum 2 years' experience at Band 7 within Clinical Site Management
• Certified Advanced Clinical Practitioner or MSc ACP programme in progress.

Education

Essential criteria

• Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification or willingness to undertake

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Senior CSP job description and person specification (PDF, 365.4KB)
• Denmark Hill Site Map (PDF, 1.2MB)
• Candidate Brochure DH (PDF, 225.6KB)