Job summary TheClinical Nurse Manager has operational responsibility for providing clinical,managerial and professional leadership in the running of the wider nursing teamand influencing the future service delivery and nursing strategy, accountablefor the delivery and standards of care provided to patient and ensuring safeeffective person-centred care.
This includes promoting a culture of compliancewith the infection prevention and control programme and facilitating compliancewith policy, to ensure Affinity Care achieves locally and nationally settargets.
Lead in the appraisal andsetting of personal development plans for senior nursing staff and healthcareassistants including ensuring access to continuing professional development ,performance management and implementation of revalidation processes for thenursing team.
Main duties of the job Responsible for leading, developing and delivering high qualitypatient focused services within areasof responsibility, ensuring the provision of safe and effective care,considering clinicalexpertise as a significant part of the decision-making process.To support Affinity Cares values of quality, teamwork, care andcompassion, dignity and respect,and openness, honesty and responsibility through the application ofappropriate, behavioursand attitudes.To manage and lead the nursing resource for the Clinical Teamwithin the parameters of the NMCCode of Conduct and Affinity Cares governance standards and compliance requirements,ensuring that patient needs are assessed, care planned, implemented and evaluatedand documented.To provide leadership and direction to the nursing resource toenable the Clinical Team tomeetits performance targets, whilst ensuring all the nursing care is person centredand quality standardsare met.Responsible for the development and implementation of operationalplans and strategies, designedto achieve local objectives in line with National targets.To manage the nursing resource within the delegated budget andestablishment, taking opportunitiesto realise efficiency gains through skill-mix and reductions in bank and agency usage,establishing and implementing a proactive monitoring system to manageperformance inthis area.
About us We are Affinity Care Primary Care Network covering a population of over 64,000 patients over 7 GP practices and 8 sites, all in the Bradford area.
Our ethos is to provide patient focused care based on the model of GP-led family orientated general practice tailored to local population needs.
Our practices are highly accredited training practices, level 3 research ready sites within an embedded ethos of our learning organisation.We are a friendly enthusiastic and hard working team with opportunities for career progression and will provide support and development for anyone demonstrating capability, enthusiasm, commitment and strong work ethic.Benefits include: 5 weeks annual leave (pro rata for part time hours) Birthday Holiday Well-being day NHS pension Job description Job responsibilities Linemanagement responsibility for the nursing and healthcare assistant teamincluding interpretation and application of all employment policies andprocedures ensuring that all staff are treated fairly and consistently,Ensurethat a robust system for clinical supervision and professional governance andrevalidation is implemented for all nursing staff, who should be properlyappraised with agreed personal development plans.Responsiblefor ensuring that the clinical nursing service adheres to all clinicalgovernance standards, ensuring safe, efficient and effective care, compatiblewith professional and national clinical standards.Toimplement and ensure compliance with Health and Safety policies, ensuring safeworking practice.Toensure all complaints are fully investigated in accordance with Affinity Carepolicies and procedures.
In addition to set up a feedback system to enablestaff to learn from the complaints and patients concerns about the service.Tomanage and review the Clinical Risk by investigating and taking action onclinical incidents and utilising root cause analysis where appropriate.Responsibility for the interpretation,development and implementation of clinical and nonclinical policies pertainingto areas of responsibility liasing with other agencies as appropriate.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential Registered Nurse with extensive previous experience as a ward manager or specialist team leader plus Management and leadership qualification at masters level or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Experience of budgetary control and staff management.
Excellent interpersonal skills are essential to exert influence and develop constructive working relationships with a wide range of clinical and non-clinical staff and patients.
Experience of working with service redesign.