Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
The Falls Specialist Nurse will work with the service lead to develop, implement and evaluate falls prevention strategies and measures across the NCA to ensure patients receive the highest standard of safe care. They will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the falls prevention and enhanced care team, actively initiating and participating in clinical activity and audits, ensuring effective communication to manage change. Working with the service lead, they will contribute to and lead the ongoing development of falls prevention and quality improvement across the Trust, including the development of policies and procedures. The post holder will support the Enhanced Care Team to provide support and education to wards teams on falls prevention practice development. They will work collaboratively with Clinical Governance teams to ensure accurate reporting and address areas of potential concern or risk, in partnership with senior management regarding compliance with 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 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 contributing to and leading 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). About us
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. Person Specification
Knowledge
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. Skills and abilities
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 deliver to tight timescales 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. Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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The Falls Specialist Nurse will work with the service lead to develop, implement and evaluate falls prevention strategies and measures across the NCA to ensure patients receive the highest standard of safe care. They will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the falls prevention and enhanced care team, actively initiating and participating in clinical activity and audits, ensuring effective communication to manage change. Working with the service lead, they will contribute to and lead the ongoing development of falls prevention and quality improvement across the Trust, including the development of policies and procedures. The post holder will support the Enhanced Care Team to provide support and education to wards teams on falls prevention practice development. They will work collaboratively with Clinical Governance teams to ensure accurate reporting and address areas of potential concern or risk, in partnership with senior management regarding compliance with 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 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 contributing to and leading 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). About us
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. Person Specification
Knowledge
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. Skills and abilities
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 deliver to tight timescales 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. Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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