RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Demonstrating accountability and responsibility for professional practice as a lead healthcare professional.
• Conducting a comprehensive holistic health assessment using evidenced based frameworks to determine diagnoses and inform autonomous advanced nursing care.
• Synthesising and interpreting assessment information particularly history including prior treatment outcomes, physical findings and diagnostic data to identify normal, at risk and subnormal states of health.
• Providing leadership in the translation of new knowledge to clinical practice.
• Educating others using an advanced expert knowledge base derived from clinical experience, on-going reflection, clinical supervision and engagement in continuous professional development.
• Communicating effectively with the healthcare team through sharing of information in accordance with legal, professional and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrating leadership in professional practice by using professional language (verbally and in writing) that represents the plan of care, which is shared with the person and other members of the inter-professional team.
• Promoting a culture of quality care.
• Proactively seeking feedback from persons receiving care, families and staff on their experiences and suggestions for improvement.
• Demonstrating clinical leadership in the design and evaluation of services.
• Engaging in health policy development, implementation, and evaluation.
• Contribute to service development through appropriate continuous education, research initiatives, keeping up to date with nursing literature, recent nursing research and new developments in nursing practice, education and management.
• Ensure adherence to established policies and procedures e.g. health and safety, infection control, storage and use of controlled drugs etc.
  Eligible applicants will be those who on the closing date for the competition: