Lead Nurse for CCOT and Deteriorating patients

Ensure service developments are guided by the perspectives of users. - Participate in the business planning process, advocating for the nursing perspective and the Critical Care Outreach Team (CCOT). - Actively foresee and prepare for service changes due to evolving internal and external factors. Initiate and conduct meetings with other Trusts/stakeholders to oversee service progress. - Align the advancement of nursing practices with national directives. - Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to assess clinical practices and initiate new clinical projects. - Together with Matrons/divisional managers, appraise methods for setting objectives and benchmarking care standards to ensure they are founded on evidence. Create tools to enhance service quality throughout the unit and related services. - Guide the CCOT in pinpointing service improvements and aid in developing business cases. - Direct the CCOT nursing teams to achieve the objectives and targets of the Heart Division. -
Support nursing staff in leading the ongoing professional development of both unit staff and themselves, ensuring alignment with service evolution and the business planning cycle. - Help other Matrons/divisional managers foster and assess a conducive learning environment, promoting nursing audits and research across the division with the aid of audit tools. - Assess the effective application of research outcomes. - Encourage the CCOT's involvement in research initiatives and support the implementation of evidence-based practices. - Establish and supervise robust audit systems to shape clinical practice and promote research in nursing within the clinical area.