Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Martha's Rule (Call for Concern) Lead Nurse
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Job Summary
Band 7 Lead Nurse / 12 hours per week
We are seeking a motivated and experienced Specialist Nurse to join our Acute Care Response Team and play a key role in implementing Martha's Rule across the Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of improving patient safety and ensuring that patients, families, and staff have a clear and effective route to escalate concerns about deterioration.
The Role
As a Specialist Nurse, you will work alongside our Acute Care Response Team to support the rollout and embedding of Martha's Rule trust wide. You will act as a clinical leader, advocate, and educator, helping to drive cultural change and ensure best practice in recognising and responding to patient deterioration.
Support and Collaboration
You will be well supported in this role, working closely with:
- The Nurse Consultant
- Specialist Lead Nurse
- Critical Care Matron
- Critical Care Consultant
Together, you will lead on the development, implementation, and evaluation of Martha's Rule, ensuring it is effectively integrated into everyday clinical practice.
Martha's Rule is an initiative aimed at enhancing patient safety and empowering patients and their families in acute care settings.
The successful candidate will be significantly autonomous and responsible for embedding the work for Martha's Rule within the Acute Trust.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for running specific projects that support Martha's Rule and the prevention, identification, escalation and response (PIER) to clinical deterioration, such as:
- Work with a variety of healthcare teams to embed the improvement projects for Martha's Rule and the deteriorating patient (Newborn, Maternity, Paediatrics and Adults)
- Provide expert guidance and support to healthcare teams in implementing Martha's Rule
- Monitor and evaluate the progress of the aims of Martha's Rule, identifying best practice and areas for improvement
- Facilitate training for healthcare staff on Martha's Rule
- Gather and analyse data to assess the impact of the initiative on patient outcomes
- Report and disseminate learning on Martha's Rule and the PIER approach to the deteriorating patient working group
About Us
We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17,600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.
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Job Description
Job responsibilities
Martha's Rule, also known as Call for Concern is an exciting initiative aimed at enhancing patient safety and empowering patients and their families within acute care settings. As the Martha's Rule Specialist Nurse, you will play a pivotal role in embedding this initiative across the Acute Trust.
This is a highly autonomous role funded by NHS England, with the successful candidate driving forward key projects that focus on preventing, identifying, escalating, and responding (PIER) to clinical deterioration.
This is a unique opportunity to influence change and improve outcomes for patients across a wide range of care areas, including newborn, maternity, paediatric, and adult services.
- Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary healthcare teams, including Health Innovation England, to embed Martha's Rule (Call for Concern) and related improvement projects across various care areas within the Great Western Hospital.
- Provide expert advice, guidance, and support to inpatient healthcare teams, ensuring the successful implementation of Martha's Rule and the Call for Concern project.
- Regularly assess the progress of Martha's Rule initiatives, identifying best practices, and highlighting areas requiring improvement.
- Design and deliver training sessions to healthcare staff, equipping them with the knowledge and tools to effectively apply Martha's Rule in their practice.
- Collect, analyse, and interpret data to evaluate the impact of the initiative on patient safety and outcomes. Report this data Nationally to NHS England.
- Share findings, lessons learned, and progress updates with the deteriorating patient working group and other relevant stakeholders.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Qualifications Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post registration/post graduate specialist training, experience
- NMC Registered nurse or HCPC registered.
- Extensive post registration experience, some of which will be at a senior level within the required specialist area
Desirable
- Portfolio of career long learning
- Teaching skills / qualification
- Management experience/ qualification
- MSc professional development
Experience Essential
- Research / Audit skills
- Experience working within the Acute Care Response Team/ Critical Care Outreach Team
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to Acute Nursing
- Data collection and input skills
Desirable
- Evidence of leading programmes of education and/or training
Additional information
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here [Criminal records checks for overseas applicants](Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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