Health and Wellbeing Lead Nurse & Clinical Educator

Health and Wellbeing Lead Nurse & Clinical Educator
Newcastle
Salary: £57,532- £61,000
Job Purpose
To provide professional and clinical leadership for the nurses employed within the organisation and support each service delivery area alongside the executive lead. This will be done by ensuring that safe and effective quality of care is delivered within the resources available while ensuring that the care environment is organised to meet the needs of the individuals who use our service by enhancing their experience and supporting staff to meet the organisations objectives.
Main Duties Education services:
• Lead on the development and implementation of education and development programmes.
• Be responsible for developing own skills, knowledge and contribute to the development of others working within the Schools and College.
• Monitor and improve standards of education through audit, research, and supervision of practice.
• Any issues and/or risks identified through audit, research or supervision of practice is highlighted, without delay, to the executive team through the correct reporting hierarchy.
• Use relevant and effective nursing metrics alongside operational KPI's set by the executive team to identify opportunities for improvement in school/college care and safety.
• To develop and maintain effective working relationships with multidisciplinary staff across the Foundation, including senior managers, our other health professionals and support staff.
• To identify educational gaps through training need assessments while supporting new course development opportunities within the remit of post registration.
• Supporting with Training Needs Analysis (TNA) annually and how this informs the education’s work programme and future delivery with services and organisational development.
• Provide timely and comprehensive updates and reports to the relevant meetings committees and key stakeholders.
• To follow at all times and promote the highest standards of professional practice as laid down in the NMC Code of Conduct and the behavioural expectations and to ensure all staff in their sphere of responsibility also meet these standards.
Care services:
• Contribute to the continual development and maintenance of the Quality Assurance Framework across adult services.
• Support the services by monitoring their regulated activities which are detailed within Schedule 1 of the Health and Social Care Act (2008).
• The post holder will regularly update the monthly Incident Review Group relating to incident management, audit, training and offer advice on professional recommendations.
• Health and Wellbeing Lead Nurse & Clinical Educator will then take responsibility against actions identified and ensure that they are carried out to fruition.
• Undertake and report the findings of serious incident investigations and learning in line with Serious Incident policies and procedures.
• Focus audits within services such as Medication, Infection Prevention Control, Moving and Handling.
• Complete any identified assessments, plans and risk assessments.
• To plan, implement and evaluate nursing interventions and health promotional developments within the health and wellbeing setting.
• Collaboratively work with internal colleagues before we refer externally for support i.e screening for CHC/Nursing needs supporting our competency and integrity when working with external professionals.
• Where the identified primary need is health related the Health and Wellbeing Lead Nurse & Clinical Educator will support with high level professional meetings, offering sound guidance and advice where there is risk of reputational risks.
• Provide training and coordinate the nurses employed to the staff in clinical areas such as: PEG, medication administration, buccal, catheterisation, moving and handling, continence, COPD, oral suctioning (list not exhaustive).
• Reviews on substantial referral and assessments within adult services.
• Manage and lead the delegation of health care tasks to nurses which will be extended to all members of staff such as support worker, night care workers and management.
• To identify themes and trends from different sources of information for discussion at appropriate meetings, ensuring recommendations and action plans where appropriate.
• To co-ordinate any recommendations arising from governance projects (Clinical Audit, feedback Surveys, guidelines, protocols, inspections, changed to legistlation) and ensuring that these are logged centrally within the organisations systems.
Qualifications and Training
• Essential qualification:
o Qualified nurse (General, Paediatric, RNLD, RMN)
o Current registration with NMC
o Postgraduate studies in relevant field.
Desirable qualifications:
o Master’s degree or evidence of Masters Level Study in an appropriate field (Nursing, Speech and language, Disabilities)
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
• 5-year post-qualification experience
• Experience of band 7 or above for more than 5 years
Apply below or call Sarah at our Gateshead office