[ref. a81330618] Falls Prevention Specialist Nurse/Practitioner - Salford

Job overview

Actively initiating and participating in clinical activity and audits, ensuring effective communication to manage change.

Working collaboratively with Clinical Governance teams to ensure accurate reporting and address areas of potential concern or risk, working in partnership with senior management in relation to compliance of procedures, policies, legislation, codes of practice and standards.

Main duties of the job

Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of falls prevention strategies and measures in place ensuring patients receive the highest standard of safe care.

Demonstrate a high level of expertise within the falls prevention and Enhanced Care team.

Actively initiate and participate in clinical activity and audits, ensuring effective communication to manage change.

Work collaboratively with the Dementia specialist / admiral nurses within the enhanced care team to provide leadership and specialist support to staff, patients and their families.

Responsible for contribution to and leading of the ongoing development of falls quality improvement across the Trust including development of policies, procedures, and protocols/guidelines.

Support the delivery of Care Organisation Falls Steering Groups

In the absence of the Dementia and Falls Enhanced Care team Lead Nurse attend other local and NCA wide groups and committees, ensuring a nursing presence and voice at all levels within the Trust.

Provide support and education to ward teams on falls prevention with the enhanced Care co-ordinators (Band 6).

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

Person specification

Knowledge

• Degree/ diploma in Adult nursing studies (or equivalent).
• Part 1 NMC Register Registered Nurse or
• Registered Midwife or
• HCPC registered Allied Health Professional.

• Master’s degree or equivalent leadership qualification.
• Management Qualification or relevant experience.

Knowledge

• Highly developed specialist knowledge of falls awareness and prevention.
• Highly developed skills in patient safety and Governance systems linked to Falls awareness and prevention.
• Proven years of experience as a Band 6 Registered Nurse
• Experience within a Falls Prevention Service or similar patient safety role.
• Significant knowledge and understanding of operational and professional issues in an acute Trust.
• Experience of delivering education or training interventions.
• Understanding of Data Confidentiality Issues.
• Experience of leading change management projects.
• Knowledge of national agenda influencing professional & practice development.

• Evidence of having led new initiatives with multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to produce clear, accurate written and verbal reports to Board level.
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance gained from experience of working with such systems.

Skills and abilities

• Evidence of effective communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to listen.
• The ability to articulate differing points of view demonstrating the use of evidence.
• Ability to work in a time critical environment and to be able to deliver to tight timescales and with competing priorities
• Well-developed delegation, people and workload management skills.
• Effective negotiating and influencing skills.

• Proven ability to lead meetings, including agenda setting, chairing the meeting and facilitating engagement and synthesising a conclusion.
• Evidence of quality report writing including the use of data for benchmarking and critical analysis.
• Evidence of the ability to confront challenging issues adopting a proactive results solution focus.

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [email protected]

For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will be only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.

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Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.

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