Nursing Practice Development Co-ordinator

• The person holding this post is required to support the principle that the care of the patient comes first at all times and will approach their work with the flexibility and enthusiasm necessary to make this principle a reality for every patient to the greatest possible degree.

• Maintain throughout the hospital awareness of the primacy of the patient in relation to all hospital activities.

• Performance management systems are part of role and you will be required trio participate in the Groups performance management programme.

The Nursing Practice Development Co-ordinator will:

• Develop and lead on clinical practice in nursing and midwifery within LUH.

• Promote an environment for professional nursing practice, which is consistent with the mission, vision and values of the organisation.

• Manage the nursing services quality assurance programmes in such a way as to support and ensure the delivery of the highest standard of patient focused nursing care throughout the hospital.

• Ensure that the clinical areas to which student nurses are assigned for clinical placements, provide optimum teaching and learning environments and are capable of meeting the learning outcomes for student nurse.

• Develop person centred nursing practices through care processes, which enhance clinical effectiveness and patient outcomes.

• Facilitate change and play a key role in promoting the organisational developments and strategies required to sustain innovations in nursing and midwifery practice.

Management and Organisation

The Nursing Practice Development Co-ordinator will:

• Support the Director of Nursing with the strategic and future development of Nursing.

• Provide cross cover for Senior Nurse managers if required

• Be a member of the Senior Nursing Management Team providing strategic and clinical leadership and direction for nursing and related services which results in the delivery of effective, efficient, quality assured and patient centred care.

• Provide professional and clinical leadership and vision and facilitates staff team building to provide planned care and develop educational strategies and service goals.

• Attend meetings with the Director of Nursing, Clinical Skills Facilitators, Clinical Nursing Managers, Clinical Placement Co-ordinators, Allocations Officer and participate in interdisciplinary meetings as appropriate. Attend meetings where appropriate in relation to student matters.

• Attend meetings as requested by the Director of Nursing

• Lead, manage, and develop the Nursing Practice Development Unit which will be a centre for the development and implementation of excellence in nursing practice, and will meet set objectives within set timescales.

• Provide leadership on quality issues and manage and implement the Nursing service relating to quality assurance strategy. Develop and implement systems relating to quality improvement. The Practice Development Co-ordinator will develop monitoring and audit mechanisms for use in measurement of service quality.

• Support staff in formulating evidence based policies, protocols, guidelines and procedures that will ensure that the highest standard of patient focused nursing care is provided within available resources.

• Maintain a data base of approved Nursing policies, protocols, guidelines and procedures.

• Evaluate existing Nursing records and documentation and where necessary implement changes which meet legal requirements and facilitate the best recording standards of NMBI and HSE.

• Set achievable, safe standards of nursing care across a broad spectrum of patient categories and to collaborate with any multidisciplinary approach to standard setting.

• Liaise and support the ADONS and Clinical Nurse/Midwifery Managers on Quality Care Metric action plans where performance improvements are required at ward level.

• In conjunction with the Assistant Directors of Nursing and Clinical Nurse/Midwifery Managers, contribute to addressing practice issues highlighted as part of the Metrics process and take remedial actions as appropriate.

• Support the escalation of risk incidents identified during Metrics Data collection and send progress reports to the Director of Nursing

• Prepare work schedules which will achieve the objectives set for the Unit by the Director of Nursing. Submit regular reports on targets achieved and, where targets have not been met, to indicate action taken to the Director of Nursing.

• Liaise with ATU Department of Nursing and CPCs to ensure that the clinical areas where student nurses are assigned for nursing/midwifery practice placements provide the optimum learning/teaching environments and are conducive to the learning requirements of the students.

• Lead and promote high standards of nursing care to all patients.

• Be responsible for the co-ordination and facilitation of a schedule of ongoing education, professional development and clinical audit.

• Support the CNM2 in preparing action plans from the recommendations of Educational Audits of the Clinical Learning Environment

• Initiate, facilitate and take part in relevant nursing/midwifery research and promote research awareness within the nursing service.

• Act as Prescribing Site Co-ordinator for Nursing &Midwifery

• Demonstrate evidence of planning/organisational skills, including time management, the ability to use his/her own initiative.

• Demonstrate ability to motivate self and others.

• Support the professional development of nursing staff within the service area.

• Facilitate change and play a key role in promoting the organisational developments and strategies required to sustain innovations in midwifery practice.

• Monitor the budget for pay and non-pay expenditure in assigned area of responsibility and ensure that pay and not-pay resources in own area of responsibility are developed efficiently and effectively within the approved budgetary allocations

• Recommend and participate in training programmes for Clinical Placement

Co-ordinators and appraise and report on their performance.

• Demonstrate evidence of planning/organisational skills, including time management, the ability to use his/her own initiative.

• Demonstrate ability to motivate self and others.

Communication / Interpersonal

The Nursing Practice Development Co-ordinator will:

• Foster good working relationships between colleagues and other staff by maintaining a high professional standard. Develop and deliver programmes relating to practice development and nursing/midwifery care initiatives as part of an overall practice development strategy.

• Collaborate with members of the hospital multidisciplinary teams in developing, reviewing policies procedures guidelines and protocols that reflect evidence based practice.

• Communicate and liaise with a range of education and training providers in the developing, delivering or sourcing a range of education and training programmes relative to the needs of a modern and developing healthcare delivery service.

• Provide coaching support to nursing colleagues in responding to individual learning and professional development needs relative to the conduct of their roles.

• Demonstrate effective writing and presentation skills.

Education and Training

The Nursing Practice Development Co-ordinator will:

• Work in collaboration with third level institutes to develop and implement educational frameworks for clinical pathway programmes.

• Lead on clinical learning environments audits for undergraduate programmes

• Keep up to date with curriculum developments and be involved in planning for application to practice areas

• Collaborate with the Director of the Centre of Nurse Education in the development of educational programmes that reflect policy and service need.

• Co-ordinate and facilitate the delivery of updated educational programmes to all nursing and midwifery staff in order to ensure recommended and updated best practices are being delivered to patients.

• Liaise with service and education providers in facilitating the delivery of workshops to support staff in their role as assessors of students of nursing.

• Provide support and guidance for student nurses during clinical placement through the effective leadership and supervision of the Clinical Placement Co-ordinators.

• Work collaboratively with Clinical Placement Co-Ordinators and Student Allocation Liaison role to ensure that the clinical areas, to which student nurses are assigned for clinical placements, provide optimum learning environments and are capable of meeting the learning objectives set by the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Ireland and the Third Level Education Provider.

Professional/Personal Development

The Nursing Practice Development Co-ordinator will:

• Keep up-to-date with nursing/midwifery literature, recent nursing research and new developments in nursing/midwifery practice, management and education. Attend and participate in learning opportunities in order to be familiar with nursing innovations

• Identify and participate in activities that enhance own professional development.

• Support staff in the application of range of codes and policies of practice, including (but not exclusively): Scope of Nursing and Midwifery Practice Framework (NMBI 2015) and the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives (NMBI 2021) in their practice.

Audit/Research

The Nursing Practice Development Co-ordinator will:

• Participate in the establishment and development of the best possible systems of support for the nursing/midwifery service from clinical and non-clinical departments and collaborate with appropriate officers to remedy any deficiencies.

• Lead work on formulation policies, protocols, guidelines and procedures which will ensure that the highest standards of patient focused nursing/midwifery care is provided within available resources based on appropriate knowledge and research.

• Facilitate and promote the sharing of a range of practice based initiatives across the acute hospital services.

• Provide accurate reports of all audits completed to the Director of Nursing, as part of supporting an ongoing quality improvement ethos across the service.

• Support nursing staff in the conduct of internal and local audit processes as part of service delivery improvement processes and their own professional development.

• Support Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) and Advanced Nurse Practitioners and candidates in their roles.

Consultant

The Nursing Practice Development Co-ordinator will:

• Facilitate an environment for critical review and appraisal of nursing services and patient care so that front line staff can contribute to changes and innovation in practice

• Be available to consult to other nurses and midwives, including students and other health care professionals both within and outside the service.

• Provide support and supportive supervision to professional colleagues and front-line staff where appropriate.

• Lead and implement change, with particular reference to HIQA Safer Better Healthcare Standards, HSE Corporate Service Plans, Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses & Midwives (NMBI 2021) Scope of Nursing & Midwifery Practice Framework (NMBI 2015).

• Advise nursing staff in relation to evidence-based practice, models of care in order to support the development of appropriate standards of care.

KPIs

• The identification and development of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) which are congruent with the hospital’s service plan targets.

• The development of Action Plans to address KPI targets.

• Driving and promoting a Performance Management culture.

• In conjunction with line manager assist in the development of a Performance Management system for your profession.

• The management and delivery of KPIs as a routine and core business objective.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING GENERAL CONDITIONS

• Employees must attend fire lectures periodically and must observe fire orders.

• All accidents within the Department must be reported immediately.

• Infection Control Policies must be adhered to.

• In line with the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 2005 all staff must comply with all safety regulations and audits.

• In line with the Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2004, smoking within the Hospital Building is not permitted.

• Hospital uniform code must be adhered to.

• Provide information that meets the need of Senior Management.

• In line with the Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2004, smoking within the Hospital Buildings is not permitted.

• To support, promote and actively participate in sustainable energy, water and waste initiatives to create a more sustainable, low carbon and efficient health service.

Risk Management, Infection Control, Hygiene Services and Health & Safety

• The management of Risk, Infection Control, Hygiene Services and Health & Safety is the responsibility of everyone and will be achieved within a progressive, honest and open environment.

• The post holder must be familiar with the necessary education, training and support to enable them to meet this responsibility.

• The post holder has a duty to familiarise themselves with the relevant Organisational Policies, Procedures & Standards and attend training as appropriate in the following areas:

o Continuous Quality Improvement Initiatives

o Document Control Information Management Systems

o Risk Management Strategy and Policies

o Hygiene Related Policies, Procedures and Standards

o Decontamination Code of Practice

o Infection Control Policies

o Safety Statement, Health & Safety Policies and Fire Procedure

o Data Protection and confidentiality Policies

• The post holder is responsible for ensuring that they become familiar with the requirements stated within the Risk Management Strategy and that they comply with the Hospitals Risk Management Incident/Near miss reporting Policies and Procedures.

• The post holder is responsible for ensuring that they comply with hygiene services requirements in your area of responsibility. Hygiene Services incorporates environment and facilities, hand hygiene, catering, cleaning, the management of laundry, waste, sharps and equipment.

• The post holder must foster and support a quality improvement culture through-out your area of responsibility in relation to hygiene services.

• It is the post holders’ specific responsibility for Quality & Risk Management, Hygiene Services and Health & Safety will be clarified to you in the induction process and by your line manager.

• The post holder must take reasonable care for his or her own actions and the effect that these may have upon the safety of others.

• The post holder must cooperate with management, attend Health & Safety related training and not undertake any task for which they have not been authorised and adequately trained.

• The post holder is required to bring to the attention of a responsible person any perceived shortcoming in our safety arrangements or any defects in work equipment.

• It is the responsibility of the post holder to be aware of and comply with the HSE Health Care Records Management / Integrated Discharge Planning (HCRM / IDP) Code of Practice.

The above Job Description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other duties as appropriate to the post which may be assigned to him/her from time to time and to contribute to the development of the post while in office.

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