Nurse Consultant

Job overview

The Nurse Consultant for Safer Care will provide expert clinical advice and leadership, education and professional development and will support research and quality improvement.

The role will be key in leading the development and implementation of safer care strategies and contribute to the development of a quality improvement approach to improve safety and experience for service users and staff Trust wide.

The role will support the Safer Care Teams and clinical Localities as a clinical expert providing guidance and advice to reduce patient safety incidents and harm to our staff. The post will be required to be clinically based 25-50% of the time.

The post holder will promote the teaching of evidence-based care of patients presenting with complex behaviour and ensure that consistent standards are maintained across the across the Trust.

The post holder will manage the Reducing Restrictive Practice Lead and the Preventing and Managing violence team.

Main duties of the job

• 1.             Provide expert clinical advice for staff and patients who are at increased risk of experiencing harm due to patient safety concerns. 2.             To develop and maintain positive multi-agency and inter-professional relationships and networks both, trust and national networks which influence and develop current systems of care delivery. 3.             Provide expert nurse leadership, advice and clinical consultancy to nurses and multi-professional teams in relation to management of patients who present with patient safety concerns or complexities, to include attendance at meetings and support in development of co-produced care planning. 4.             Advise and liaise with the Deputy Director and Director of Safer Care, with regard to any specialist nursing issues and training requirements across the Trust to support safer care. 5.             Enhance the quality of the service user experience by ensuring a high level of training and advice to develop nursing staff and multi-professional staffs knowledge and skills. 6.             Provide expert nursing advice to the safer care meetings. 7.             Develop and implement strategies and other patient safety initiatives to include evidence-based frameworks and interventions to reduce patient harm. 8.             To provide  day to day management and expert guidance and support to the Reducing Restrictive Practice Lead and the PMA team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To ensure PMA training meets national and best practice guidance and standards. Support the governance processes for Safer Care, providing clinical expertise to patient safety and safeguarding reviews. Work with the police and other agencies to strengthen the Trust approach to reducing violence and aggression. Review and develop a standardised Trust wide approach to responding to emergency responses to patient safety incidents. Initiate and lead changes in practice to support the delivery of high standards of care. To actively support teams and areas across the Trust where patient safety incidents have occurred and to help provide and organise debriefing.

Please read the job description / person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed