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The West Middlesex Intensive Care Unit comprises a combination of level 2 and level 3 intensive care beds. We care for a broad range of critically ill patients within primary nursing teams.

We offer a friendly and supportive working environment where education is seen as a priority. Join our team to provide excellent compassionate care to all our critically ill patients and their families.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced critical care nurse with a keen enthusiasm to develop others and be involved in the educational and development support of staff as a practice development Nurse Band 7.

Clinical

• Act as an expert practitioner and role model, assisting colleagues to develop advanced knowledge and skills.
• Demonstrate specialist clinical knowledge and skills at the patient bedside.
• Work clinically alongside staff requiring additional support to develop skills, expertise and knowledge.
• Develop all staff determining proficiency based on competency frameworks.
• Set, monitor and maintain excellent standards of nursing care in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team.
• Maintain and role model personal contact with patients, relatives and carers, being sensitive to their need for courtesy, dignity and privacy.
• Maintain timely and accurate nursing records and ensure confidentiality is respected.
• Communicate with and assist the multidisciplinary team to promote excellence in the delivery of care.
• Monitor and audit the quality of care through a range of strategies including risk management incident reporting, complaints, research and clinical audit.
• Able to scrutinise, question, evaluate and react to a multitude of complex and problematic situations.
• The post holder will undertake a minimum of 25% direct patient care within a clinical shift, role‑modeling to others within the unit and maintaining clinical skills.
• Deputising for SPDN as required.
• Supporting and facilitating the development of critical care guidelines and protocols.
• Promote and maintain a safe therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff, according to national and local Infection Control guidelines, Health & Safety legislation and Trust policies and objectives.
• Ensure the team promote, ensure and adhere to the Trust safeguarding policies.
• Monitor quality of standards of care, in line with CQC requirements and Trust and Divisional objectives.
• Deliver and supervise a high quality patient experience.
• Promote and maintain patient safety at all times, including proactively implementing falls and pressure ulcer prevention and safe medicine management.
• Have an awareness of current professional and clinical developments within their area of practice and promote this to others.

Leadership and management

• Continue to undertake shift coordinator on clinical shift where appropriate.
• Ensure staff adhere to Trust protocols of care, e.g. Infection Control.
• Take continuing responsibility for the Ward / Department in absence of manager.
• Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with other professional groups, and staff generally within the Division and the Trust.
• Lead and coordinate the delivery of induction / orientation of new staff and development of new staff.
• Be responsible in the teaching and delivery of the Foundations of critical care programme.
• Act as a role model, ensuring staff work to Trust guidelines and values.
• Be responsible for managing and facilitating the supervision of qualified and unqualified staff and learners.
• Provide clinical support and guidance to staff.
• Act as a resource for clinical knowledge to staff.
• Lead and participate in recruitment and selection, and develop effective selection and interviewing skills.
• Support senior staff members with appraisals of staff, following training.
• Chair team meetings as required.
• Lead on specific projects, as indicated and agreed by manager.
• Have a working knowledge of budget arrangements for area, focussing on cost effectiveness and quality, to ensure maximum use of resource.
• Understand and manage local change with team members, including the embedding of new projects.

Education & research

• Actively support and assist in preceptorship and in pre-registration student support, supervision and guidance including mentorship where appropriate.
• Identify and respond to learning needs for area.
• Develop and deliver or organise local training sessions, mindful of the Trust values.
• Facilitate others in the development of informal teaching skills.
• Participate in the annual training needs analysis for their area.
• Participate in any local or related research projects, clinical trials etc.
• To be involved in implementing new ideas and innovations within the ICU.
• Respond to clinical incidents relating to performance/capability/education & skills.
• Apply and encourage others to utilise evidence based practice and relevant research findings in practice.
• Identify areas of nursing / midwifery research within their area that will be of benefit, and encourage and educate other staff to recognise the importance of research.
• Participate in clinical supervision / acting as supervisor.
• Support team leaders in monitoring and co-ordinating mandatory training requirements for critical care nursing team.
• Maintain professional registration.
• Ensure mandatory training and a satisfactory appraisal is in date.
• Undertake a professional development plan and demonstrate achievement of objectives.
• Ensure adherence to Trust policy and guidelines at all times.
• Role model Trust values at all times.

Communication and relationship building

• Know and utilise Trust values in all working relationships to patients, corers and staff.
• Demonstrate good leadership skills and ensure that communication is effective between the patient, relatives and members of the multidisciplinary team, and ensure appropriate nursing input into patient care discussions.
• Ensure communication is used effectively in the interests of patient care, including the use of clinical incident reporting if necessary.
• Communicate handover of care in a professional manner.
• Demonstrate politeness, courtesy and sensitivity in dealing with patients/clients, visitors/relatives and colleagues, maintaining good customer relations and recognising individuality and rights for each patient in line with Trust values.
• Work cohesively with all members of the ward team in ensuring that the very best services to patients are provided at all times.
• Work effectively within a multi-racial and cultural environment.

Education Team Management

• Planning and allocation of new staff to teams and rostering in accordance to continuity, skill mix, student nurses, bank or agency staff and developmental needs of staff.
• Meet with SPDN and cross-site PDN on a monthly basis.
• Ensuring and role-modelling effective handover of patient care between shifts (both coordinator and bedside staff).
• Provide and facilitate clinical support and learning opportunities for staff, ensure that staff are aware of teaching sessions/inter team projects and attend them.
• Demonstrating and supporting the maintenance of a safe environment through the checking of emergency equipment, preparation of bed areas, adherence to trust policies, maintenance of equipment, reporting of clinical incidents and staff performance.
• Supporting team leaders with managing a team through facilitation of effective team function, promotion of team development and ensure that the team meets identified standards of care of best practice, including.
• Facilitating team days take place and are rostered and link with MDT.
• Supporting senior staff members in ensuring all staff have a PDR and maintain their revalidation.
• Supporting an environment for mutual support within the team.
• Ensuring good communication exists within the wider ICU team.
• Supporting participation of team members in inter team projects.
• Participating in the monitoring and auditing the quality of care provided to patients.
• Providing support with care planning and documentation.
• Reviewing and learning from Patient feedback.
• Completion of Mandatory updates.

Other responsibilities

• Supporting other departments through expert advice and clinical support when required.
• Networking with the northwest London critical care network and PAN London education network.
• To develop ICU research based guidelines with support of colleagues.
• On completion of ALS training to act as a member of the Trust Resuscitation Team.
• To act up in the absence of the senior practice nurse.

• Putting patients first
• Responsive to patients and staff
• Open and honest
• Unfailingly kind
• Determined to develop
• NMC Registered Adult Nurse
• A Degree in Nursing
• Must be a trained Preceptor
• Must have completed as qualified Practice Assessor
• A clinical expert either through formal qualification and extensive clinical experience pertinent to the area.
• Post‑registration teaching/mentorship qualification/ practice supervisor
• Ability to work as part of a team and use initiative
• Experience in teaching
• A willingness to work towards the Practice Educator qualification or equivalent
• Experience in teaching
• Experience of staff management
• Demonstrates evidence of developing innovative practice and of being proactive in managing change
• Recent experience in Non‑invasive ventilation , CPAP, BIPAP
• Basic IT and computer & presentation skills
• Demonstrates an understanding of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Standards of proficiency
• Awareness of current developments in own clinical specialty.
• Able to work clinically and undertake a full range of duties with regards to patient care
• Able to undertake moving and handling duties
• Ability to work as part of a team and use initiative.
• Demonstrates commitment to high standards of patient care and service delivery
• A genuine desire to be a learning facilitator with demonstrable enthusiasm for practice development
• ILS/ALS trained

This 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.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum plus HCAS

We look forward to receiving your application.