The closing date is 29 July 2026
Salary: £75,921 to £80,684 a year
Job summary
We are currently seeking a highly skilled and experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression.
The post holder will lead on the delivery, coordination and development of training (in partnership with external providers) across Health and Care Jersey services, and will act as a specialist resource for clinical teams in the assessment of clinical risk and development of plans & interventions to reduce this.
This is a new and high profile role, and the post holder will require a high level of skills and experience in risk assessment & management, the prevention & management of violence and aggression, and teaching / training across a range of services & MDT professionals.
Informal discussions are very welcome – please contact Andy Weir, Managing Director via a.weir@health.gov.je
Job responsibilities
Clinical Practice
The Clinical Nurse Specialist will demonstrate a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and accountability by delivering specialised and person-centred holistic care, including assessment of clinical risk and development of management plans to reduce this.This will be delivered through advice, education, and interventions to other health care professionals across HCJ, as well as directly with service users.
Will manage own caseload and undertake comprehensive history taking and assessment, which may involve physical examination, enhanced observation, define care pathway or appropriately refer onwards if necessary.Responsibilities will also include the coordination and delivery of training programmes, and evaluation of these as well as review of patient safety incidents.
The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be an integral member of multidisciplinary teams and will work collaboratively in order to ensure a co-ordinated approach to person centred care, across clinical pathways and services.
Advanced communication skills are essential in order to impart sensitive, complex and potentially distressing information to service users, families and carers, providing them with advice and emotional support in hospital/community. Ensuring that both staff and service users understand the information provided to them, whilst overcoming any communication barriers.
Advocate for service users and their families in treatment decisions and choices ensuring a holistic approach throughout their care and treatment. Ensuring the delivery of high quality risk assessment, care planning and interventions to both reduce and manage potential violence and aggression, whilst promoting a good service user experience.
Regularly seek the views and experiences of those who use their services and ensure that the voice of service users and colleagues informs training development and design.
Education
Act as a role model, educator, supervisor and mentor seeking to instil and develop confidence in others.
Participate in supervision and keep up to date with professional development.
Continually develop practice in response to changing population service need, engaging in horizon scanning for future innovations to develop.
Leads on the development, delivery and evaluation of education and learning activities, specific to the area of expertise, internally and externally to the organisation as required.
Will be responsible for supporting the development of policy, implementation of clinical guidelines, standards, pathways and service development within the specialist area of nursing. This includes clinical responsibility to service and care group improvement initiatives.
Leadership & Management
Lead new practice and service redesign solutions in response to feedback, evaluation and need.
Demonstrate team leadership, resilience and determination.
Provide professional and clinical advice to colleagues regarding practice and service improvement.
Evaluate practice through clinical audit, and participate in multi-disciplinary service and team evaluation, demonstrating the impact of specialist clinical practice on service function and effectiveness, and quality (e.g. outcomes of care, experience and safety).
Ensure appropriate safeguards are in place and advocate for the service users, communicating to appropriate agencies when there are any concerns regarding potential/actual risk to any service users or their dependents. (E.g. safeguarding, domestic violence, protection of the vulnerable adult/child, mental capacity and Significant Restriction of Liberty (SRoL).
Participate in annual Performance, Review and Appraisal process ensuring that job plan is reviewed annually and demonstrates a balanced approach to clinical, administration and professional demands. Actively engage in peer review to inform own and others practice, formulating and implementing strategies to act on learning and make improvements.
Research & Audit
Utiliseaudit to actively engage, instigate and evaluate service provision. Work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team and service users to identify variances in service provision and to plan and implement improvements.
Benchmark service provision against national standards and guidelines (e.g. NICE and relevant specialities governing bodies). Providing an annual report on service outcomes referencing key performance indicators.
Critically appraise and synthesise the outcome of relevant research to underpin improvements in clinical practice.
Identify, establish and ensure compliance to all legislative, HCJ policy, procedures and professional practices, in line with professional regulatory and statutory requirements. Where appropriate ensure that staff are aware of their individual responsibilities relevant to professional Codes of Practice including Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Jersey Care Commission (JCC), to enhance best practice. Support clinical teams to manage and promote the HCJ quality agenda, to include JNAAS and other key evidence-based care standards.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Regulated Nurse with current NMC registration.
- Profession Specific / Speciality
- Degree (or level 6 qualification)
- Recognised teaching qualification
- Working towards Masters (Level 7) professional qualification, relevant to speciality.
- Training and experience in the teaching and delivery of PMVA skills
- Intermediate Life Support (ILS)
Desirable
- Masters level qualification in appropriate speciality.
- Independent Prescribing Qualification (e.g. NMC v300)
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 5 years experience post qualifying as a nurse/ability to
- demonstrate required experience including evidence in leading a multi professional team.
- Broad experience of engaging with patients, motivate and support them too high standards.
- Demonstrable knowledge of Safeguarding
- Evidence of experience in delivering training/Education to a broad range of professionals
- Evidence of leadership
- Experience of implementing, managing and achieving changes in
- clinical practice
- Demonstrates clinical outcome measures for service users
- Experienced in clinical governance, clinical audit and service users
- experience
Desirable
- Experience of conducting supervision sessions with staff.
- Experience of implementing, managing and achieving changes in clinical practice
- Evidence of effective staff management and running a ward/area/department.
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).