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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Practice
•    Accountable for all nursing practice and can demonstrate involvement of user/carer in practice within their immediate practice setting.
•    Continually refine and up date their knowledge, skills and attitudes to a higher practice level with regard to their particular practice setting.
•    Frequently critique the nursing intervention of the team against latest evidence to assess where improvements could be made.
•    Regularly assist in the evaluation of health and social outcomes of clients treated within their team.
•    Contribute and assist in the development of a strategic plan to inform practice within the team.
•    Provide skilled clinical and managerial supervision to the wider multi-disciplinary team.
•    Use specialist knowledge to deal effectively with newly encountered clinical situations.

Leadership
•    Accepts overall management responsibility for the delivery of high quality, effective treatment and care within their area of responsibility.
•    Demonstrate the ability to manage and lead a team’s development and improvements in their clinical practice.
•    Provide advise and consultation on complex clinical matters faced by the team.
•    Instigate, lead, implement and evaluate local quality improvement programmes.
•    Demonstrate the ability to effectively influence the political dimensions of service development.

Practice Development and Research
•    Construct a local service delivery plan in association with other professional groups/stakeholders.
•    Establish a clearly defined support structure for team members to implement agreed local practice development action plans.
•    Actively lead in practice and service development at a local level within the wider context of health and social care improvement.
•    Give a professional nursing perspective on service delivery..
•    Oversee local practice development projects.
•    Work in partnership with other professional groups to establish the model and philosophy of care appropriate to the care environment.
•    Promote a learning environment where evidence/value-based practice is implemented routinely.
•    Identify areas of nursing practice for further research.
•    Formulate existing research and evidence into proposals for improving the quality of care provided by the team i.e. NICE
•    Establish a system in which local networks and stakeholders actively contribute to ongoing evaluation of service delivery.

Education, Training and Personal Development
•    Implement a range of  different models of learning.
•    Ensure all nurses within the team undertake clinical supervision
•    Contribute to the ongoing development of the learning environment.
•    Effectively contribute to the training needs analysis of the nursing team reflecting the team’ ability to deliver operational/service objectives.
•    Facilitate and support others in the extension of their professional roles and their personal development.
•    Monitor and support the roles of all nurses undertaking a mentor role in accordance with the assessment and learning in practice standard (NMC) and provide a suitable learning environment for all learners