Nurse Consultant 8b-Virtual wards Warrington and Halton

Job summary

We have a great opportunity for an enthusiastic Nurse consultant to join our Virtual Ward Team for Warrington & Halton. If you want to lead the delivery of high quality, safe and effective care in the community, then we need you.

As a Nurse consultant will be expected to:

- Work autonomously at an advanced level to provide clinical assessment, interventions and pathways for patients within the service(s). This is a key post within a specialist area and will have a clear role in defining, shaping delivering, and developing the services.

- Provide clinical expertise in professional practice and independent decision-making in complex and unpredictable situations to incorporate both expertise and evidence-based practice across pathways, services, organisations, and the system, working with service users, communities, and partners.

- Act as an innovator, motivator, key change agent and role model to support and influence clinical pathway design and redesign within the services including quality improvement, implementation of national initiatives, service reconfiguration and new digitally enabled models of care.

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will be expected to:

- Work closely with the Associate Director, Director of Nursing, Operational Manager, Clinical Nurse Specialists, patients and wider MDT teams to develop a service responsive to the needs of patients and staff.

- Deliver expert clinical practice

- Lead service design and development of the service, empowering the clinical team to meet the needs of the local population in line with key objectives outlined in local and national policy.

- Act as a resource and lead for the supervision of Advanced Clinical Practice within the Trust.

- Work in collaboration with MDT colleagues actively promote and engage in teams in contributing to Clinical Pathway Groups (CPGs) and wider quality improvement work.

- Make a significant contribution to the clinical governance agenda by ensuring practice is evidence based and through the development of staff competence at all levels.

- Represent the directorate at external networks and report on progress to the Associate Director.

Job responsibilities

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

Unfortunately, we do not hold a sponsor licence for working Visas.

At Bridgewater, our PEOPLE values shape how we deliver our NHS services in your local community.

They help us deliver our mission to improve local health and promote wellbeing in the communities we serve.

After all, values are about people and they were created in partnership with our staff to reflect what they felt was important to them

Here at Bridgewater our shared values flow through the organisation.

P- Person-centred-We are passionate about individual needs and promote independence in the healthcare we provide..

E- Empowered- We empower our people and encourage new ideas to deliver and create improvements in community care.

O- Open and Honest -We behave in a way that develops relationships based on trust, openness, honesty and respect.

P- Professional-We support our people, so everyone has the right skills and training to deliver outstanding patient care.

L- Locally Lead -We are always learning about our communities and show great pride in being a local provider of health and care.

E- Efficient -We use our resources wisely to provide sustainable and value for money healthcare for our patients.