Job overview

An exciting opportunity for a motivated, values driven and passionate Nurse/AHP has arisen with the role of Nurse Consultant/AHP in the Virtual Wards Leadership Team and to contribute fully to the professional, clinical, managerial, strategic, and governance development of the Virtual Wards. This includes the Acute Virtual Ward covering Islington and Haringey and the Islington and Haringey Community complex Virtual Wards. The Nurse Consultant /AHP will be an experienced practitioner who is able to demonstrate an expert level of personal and professional skills blending clinical expertise with strong leadership and clinical management skills to achieve the deliverable outcomes..

Main duties of the job

The post will be structured among the four pillars of advanced clinical practice:

Expert clinical practice (minimum 70%).
Professional leadership and strategic function.
Education, training, and development.
Research, evaluation, and service development

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Clinical and Professional Leadership
  Serve as an autonomous practitioner, making independent clinical decisions for patients in Virtual Wards.
  Lead and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings, ensuring comprehensive care plans and appropriate escalation paths.
• Lead and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings, ensuring comprehensive care plans and appropriate escalation paths.
• Keep abreast of current practices and maintain a high of clinical competence in advanced practice areas
• Quality, Clinical Governance and Risk Management
• As part of the Senior Virtual Wards Clinical Leadership Team be responsible for the performance management of key performance indicators related to the nursing/ professional contribution to service delivery within the Virtual Wards.
• Support the development and delivery of the Governance agenda, including clinical and non-clinical aspects of care and service delivery.
• Ensure that areas and staff are prepared for any peer review inspections, including CQC.
• To support the Virtual Ward leads in preparation for any external review, such as CQC and GIRFT.
• To work closely with the Virtual Wards Service Team to implement systems to monitor clinical standards, ensuring high standards of care that are evidence-based and integral to service delivery, involving patients and others in developing and enhancing services.
• Service Delivery and Development
• Ensure the delivery of responsive, high-quality, value-for-money services within the clinical areas of responsibility.

• Support the delivery of patient access standards and activity targets with the available resources

• Business Planning and Financial Management
• Ensure that the nursing resources are deployed efficiently and minimise spending on bank or agency staffing.
• In conjunction with the Virtual Wards Service Managers contribute to ensuring that the Virtual Ward achieves a balanced budget
• Support the Virtual Ward Service Leads in identifying cost savings in line with the CIP programme and implementing agreed financial recovery plans
• Educational Responsibilities
• Support the development and implementation of education and training programmes within the Virtual Wards for nurses and AHPs, ensuring effective use of the education commissioning system.

• To contribute to the Training Needs Analysis for the Virtual Wards to ensure that the educational needs are met whilst achieving value for money.

  Essential criteria

  Nurse / Pharmacist / Paramedic / Physiotherapist with a valid Professional Registration
  Non-Medical Prescriber Qualification
  Evidence of continued professional development
  Leadership/management qualification (or equivalent experience
  Able to lead a service and make decisions and judgements about the best possible way forward in a complex work environment where the evidence base is evolving
  Experience working at band 8a level or above with substantial post qualification experience as Matron/Unit Manager or equivalent, managing nursing or AHP teams.
  Able to influence and work with local partners internally and externally to help develop services.

  Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes.

  Experience of leading and carrying out research projects

• Desirable criteria

  Additional Qualifications in leadership, digital medicine or a related field.

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  Essential criteria

  Skills & Abilities

  Computer literate, able to use Word and Excel
  Demonstrates Proven ability of analysis of information from data bases high standards in written and verbal communication
  Ability to develop and use a Risk Strategy

  For more detailed information, please read the job description

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• Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.