Senior Sister

Job overview

Under the oversight of the Matron for Renal, the role will be to lead and manage the the team to support the quality of care received by patients.

To be professionally accountable and maintain standards of professional practice as set by the appropriate regulatory body applicable for your profession or role.

In a supervisory role, utilise the supervision of clinical practice, audit, research, learning from patient safety events, and teaching to set, monitor, and improve standards of care in addition to efficient and effective use of resources.

To be accountable for:

• Promoting safe and effective clinical practice.

• Promoting a positive patient experience.

• Contribute to the overall performance of the Respiratory Team.

• Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation strategies and objectives.

Under the oversight of the Matron for Renal, the role will be to lead and manage the the team to support the quality of care received by patients.

To be professionally accountable and maintain standards of professional practice as set by the appropriate regulatory body applicable for your profession or role.

In a supervisory role, utilise the supervision of clinical practice, audit, research, learning from patient safety events, and teaching to set, monitor, and improve standards of care in addition to efficient and effective use of resources.

To be accountable for:

• Promoting safe and effective clinical practice.

• Promoting a positive patient experience.

• Contribute to the overall performance of the Respiratory Team.

• Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation strategies and objectives.

Main duties of the job

To ensure safe and effective clinical practice;

As a visible clinical leader, set standards of care and professionalism and promote teamwork within a multi-professional environment, demonstrating critical analysis and decision-making skills, leading the delivery of designated quality workstreams, influencing, and facilitating the sustainment or improvement within the organisation.

Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence-based practice, setting, implementing, and monitoring evidence-based standards of care, policies, and procedures.

Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement using research, audit, patient feedback, and learning from patient safety events.

Ensure a high standard of record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council, Health and Care Professions Council, national legislation, and local standards.

Support effective communication with the multi-professional team.

Assess the risks involved in the care of patients and ensure utilisation of evidence-based practices and protocols to minimise those risks.

To monitor the standards of care and escalate when standards fall below expected levels.

Report incidents and near misses promptly and appropriately and take effective action to minimise future risk.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To ensure safe and effective clinical practice;

As a visible clinical leader, set standards of care and professionalism and promote teamwork within a multi-professional environment, demonstrating critical analysis and decision-making skills, leading the delivery of designated quality workstreams, influencing, and facilitating the sustainment or improvement within the organisation.

Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence-based practice, setting, implementing, and monitoring evidence-based standards of care, policies, and procedures.

Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement using research, audit, patient feedback, and learning from patient safety events.

Promote a clean and safe environment for staff, patients, and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection prevention, clinical governance, including risk management and incident reporting.

Ensure a high standard of record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council, Health and Care Professions Council, national legislation, and local standards.

Support effective communication with the multi-professional team.

Assess the risks involved in the care of patients and ensure utilisation of evidence-based practices and protocols to minimise those risks.

To monitor the standards of care and escalate when standards fall below expected levels.

Report incidents and near misses promptly and appropriately and take effective action to minimise future risk.

Apply in practice awareness of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) methodology and liaise with the CQI Team.

Lead on scoping excellent systems of work nationally and internationally for local adoption or adaption.

Identify and lead audit projects as required. Ensure that audit recommendations are reported, and recommendations implemented where practicable.

Develop and deliver high quality educational support, encompassing best practice, policy, and procedure, to teams, as part of quality improvement work as required either as a request from educational colleagues or independently as detailed in annual workplan.

To enhance the patient’s experience;

Support clinical teams and colleagues to monitor the quality of patient care provided through using expert clinical knowledge relevant to own field of practice, underpinned by theory and experience.

Within a multidisciplinary team environment, develop a culture of person-centred care.

Be highly visible within the clinical environment, communicating regularly with clinical leads; promoting a safe and caring environment where quality is monitored regularly and acted on where relevant.

Identify opportunities to develop the quality of care and services by ensuring that there are effective systems in place to ascertain current position and where needed, improvement trajectory.

Support critical appraisal and synthesis outcomes of relevant research, evaluations and audits and apply the information when seeking to improve practice.

Be pro-active in seeking patient views, ensuring that feedback from patients is valued and acted upon and lessons disseminated to enable changes in practice if they are necessary.

To manage and develop the performance of the team;

Act as a positive role model, creating a supportive ethos to empower staff to contribute to the delivery of excellent person-centred care and quality improvement.

Lead by example to positively influence the way care is given in a manner that is open and responds to individual needs.

Act in accordance with the Nursing & Midwifery Council Code –Standards of conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives.

Promote a positive image of nursing and midwifery internally and external to the Trust Support the embedding a culture of continuous quality improvement.

Be an effective leader of change, embedding a culture of continuous quality improvement.

Take all reasonable care of health and safety at work for self, team, and others, and co-operate with employers to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements.

Support the learning and development of all staff, leading on the development of educational resources, in collaboration with relevant educational teams, linked to assigned workstreams.

Deliver educational sessions, as requested, to support quality improvement work linked to assigned workstreams.

Create a learning environment that ensures effective learning opportunities for staff and students.

Utilise the appropriate Trust policies, procedures, and guidelines.

To ensure effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives;

Network with peers, from within and outside of the organisation, across professional groups promoting the exchange of knowledge, skills, and resources.

Attend and participate in professional forums and disseminate information.

Work in partnership with a range of clinicians and managers in the planning and development of quality workstreams, where relevant promoting the involvement of patients/public.

Support the development and implementation of the Quality Framework and other relevant organisational strategies.

Seek opportunities for personal and team development, supporting research agenda of the organisation.

Develop and maintain a working knowledge of local, national, and professional strategy and policy, ensuring that organisational objectives are included in workstream improvement plans.

Demonstrate the ability to contribute to policy and strategy at a team, organisational, and, where appropriate, national level.