Night Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

The Night Nurse Practitioner will lead and support the Hospital at Night team through clinical expertise, professional advice, guidance and education. The role will be responsible for the co-ordination, delivery and implementation of advanced clinical support to the Hospital at Night team, including the medical staff on the team overnight and the staff working in all areas of the hospital.

In addition to providing exceptional clinical support, the role of the Night Nurse Practitioner will include carrying the Hospital Bleep. This aspect of the role incorporates all aspects of site safety from ensuring adequate staffing across the site to the more challenging and unusual situations that may arise. In order to manage these situations successfully, the Night Nurse Practitioner will be expected to work closely with the Clinical Site Management team.

The role of Night Nurse Practitioner also includes Capacity Management, ensuring that patients are moved safely and promptly from the Emergency Department / AMU / MDU. This will also occasionally involve moving patients around the hospital during the night and so requires a good working knowledge of the hospital and its departments to ensure that patient safety is maintained at all times.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Main duties of the job

The Night Nurse Practitioner will allocate clinical tasks to the Hospital at Night team utilising the HaN bleep system, ensuring that patients are assessed in a timely manner by the most appropriate practitioner; this again requires a good working knowledge of the hospital to allow appropriate assessment of risk.

Line manager for a team, which will include responsibility over own staff for all or most of the following: appraisals, sickness management, disciplinary and grievance matters, recruitment and selection management, personal and career development, department workload.  The post holder will be a shift leader with direct responsibility for management, supervision and support of junior members of the Hospital at Night team ensuring management of clinical activities.  As the Night Nurse Practitioner on a shift they will be responsible for managing ad hoc situations as they arise in the ward environment that require senior nursing intervention, escalating as appropriate to the clinical site manager I.e. patient safety incidents , HR related matters, complaints and staff conflict.  They will also be responsible for ensuring the medical staff that form part of the hospital at night team are given the appropriate support as required to carry out their duties on a shift by shift basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• ccountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times.
• Highly developed communication skills enabling maintenance of high quality service. Timely management and resolution of unexpected events and situations. Undertake bleep-holder responsibilities for the hospital on a regular basis.
• Responsible for clinical assessment of patients and provision of advanced nursing interventions to maintain and improve the health and welfare of patients in all areas of the hospital.
• Responsible for identifying and assessing complex clinical and non-clinical issues, implementing resolutions and monitoring / auditing outcomes.
• Organisation of cross-departmental/organisational activities including HR, resource, and bleep-holder responsibilities as appropriate.
• Demonstrate highly technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; complex patient monitoring; equipment management and frequent administration of invasive tests/procedures.
• Develop and educate staff, participating in supervision, mentorship and appraisal as required.
• Utilise and ensure others utilise IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data available.
• Manage expected and unexpected clinical events requiring varying levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need.
• Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g. imparting bad news or following an unexpected event.
• Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards.
• Maintain a clean, safe environment ensuring adherence to Trust standards of cleanliness, hygiene and infection control at all times

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.