Job Description

Core responsibilities Clinical Maintain and apply their nursing knowledge to a range of contexts. Deliver expert nursing assessments and manage complex care needs of care home residents within Weald PCN Oversee chronic disease management including medication reviews and health promotion tailored to care home populations. Act as the named nursing lead for care home services across Weald PCN, advocating for patient-centred care. Provide support to practices with nursing cover during periods of extended absence.



Utilise an understanding of the health and care policy, systems and structures, implications of changing population needs and the political, social, economic, legal, technical, and professional context of healthcare and respond to issues that they encounter. Apply knowledge and skills to a range of professionally challenging situations, within the team. This includes analysis of complex problems enabling creation of innovative solutions to improve outcomes. Act as a resource in area of professional practice.



Provide direct advice to individuals and the team within their area. Support patient and public involvement to enhance patient care and service delivery. Work, directly or indirectly, to improve the quality of services and care provided for people and/or populations. Contribute to the understanding of the impact of practice on global and/or planetary health by promoting and adopting environmental-friendly and sustainable approaches.



Be proficient in use of digital technologies applicable in the workplace. Systematically apply an advanced awareness of professional and ethical values and NMC Code of Conduct to personal and strategic decisions, actions, responsibilities, outcomes, and dilemmas, whilst working with others to suggest appropriate solutions in unpredictably complex contexts. Advocate for people and nursing. Role model this level of nursing and nursing professionalism to people across the organisation.



Education Provide clinical support and guidance to care home staff to improve patient safety and health outcomes. Identify own personal development needs, proactively seek feedback, and take effective action to address them using a mix of strategies. Share knowledge, experience and expertise with nurses and others at all levels, through strategies such as formal and informal teaching, facilitated reflective practice, skills supervision, coaching, mentoring and preceptorship. Provides constructive feedback and opportunities such as peer review, to guide, support, motivate and develop others in the team.



Act as a role model for this level of nursing. Assess learning needs and deploy a range of teaching and learning strategies and resources, to support the development of people. Evaluate the outcomes of teaching and learning activities and learner experience and adapt approaches accordingly. Design and develop projects and/or activities to enhance others learning, work or practice within complex contexts.



Advocate for learning and development of the workforce, with effective succession planning. Participate in the supervision, evaluation and assessment of nurses aspiring to work at an enhanced level. Participate in, and lead formal training events promoting best practice in area of expertise. Teach and advise patients and their families on how to manage their condition.



Advise and support on the development and delivery of work streams relating to area of expertise as part of the PCNs strategy, where appropriate. Work proactively with key local and national stakeholders to develop more integrated care pathways and holistic models of care, through dissemination of specialist skills and knowledge. Contribute to the delivery of local policy, procedures and protocols for the PCN to improve identification, assessment, ongoing support for patients and their family carers. Research Deliver and support others to deliver research-informed practice.



Undertake activities that monitor and improve the effectiveness, impact, and value of their own and others work. Use a wide range of contemporary high-quality data, research, evidence-based professional practice, and valid and reliable tools and techniques, to proactively evaluate and sustainably improve current ways of working. Critically appraise the information from a variety of sources such as outcomes of relevant research, quality improvement projects, evaluations, and audits. Use a wide range of contemporary high-quality research, evidence-based valid and reliable tools, and techniques, to sustainably improve current ways of working.



Participate in knowledge mobilisation and dissemination of research findings. Source advice on research governance processes to ensure compliance. Identify gaps in evidence and inform relevant parties. Participate in research when opportunities present themselves Engages with quality improvement Leadership Demonstrate individual leadership via self-awareness of the approaches taken to collaborating with others and aligning colleagues in collective work.



Display self-leadership by managing own workload and competing demands. Make challenging decisions, seeking guidance where appropriate, and taking responsibility for outcomes. Demonstrate tactical leadership by working with a broad range of people and stakeholders in the direct and immediate work. Reflect on and contribute to improving ways of working and supporting a culture of safety.



Use negotiating and influencing skills to facilitate efficient ways of working and optimise outcomes within their own area. Foster collaborative, productive, inclusive relationships with colleagues in the wider team and other key stakeholders to optimise organisational provision and outcomes for the benefit of people and/or populations. Demonstrate operational leadership including leading individuals, teams and/or different groups, they may or may not manage. Coordinate multidisciplinary care planning involving GPs, clinical pharmacists, social care, and community health services.



Delegate work to other members of the MDT and take responsibility for the delegated activity as appropriate; demonstrate initiative and creativity in finding solutions to problems Systematically synthesise information and ideas and formulate and develop proposals to address issues or utilise opportunities in complex contexts. Support innovation and service development utilising evidence-based approaches to optimise effective, sustainable change. Participate in local networks and respond to local, regional and national initiatives within their subject area. Work within current evidence-based policies, processes, standards, and governance systems, alerting others when revisions are needed to ensure they remain fit for purpose.



Work across professional and service boundaries. Be cognisant of factors that aspects that impact on productivity and cost effectiveness within their area. Facilitate development of leadership skills in others within their own area. Please see full job description and person specification in the side bar of this advert.