Job Description
We are currently looking for a Registered Nurse to work in the Morpeth area.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
They act as a Clinical Nurse Lead within a multi-disciplinary team, developing collaborative, needs based care plans, through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
They act as an identified deputy in the absence of the Ward Manager.
They facilitate and coordinate clinical practice, ensuring high standards of evidence-based care and treatment.
They are visible and accessible to patients, families and carers working together to ensure efficient, effective, and caring services.
They lead on the implementation of all performance indicators, essential standards, and quality outcomes.
They develop and where appropriate deliver training packages to enhance the knowledge and skills of the workforce and students.
They facilitate staff appraisals and Clinical Supervision and support personal development plans
They provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity
COMMUNICATION & RELATIONSHIPS
Provide and receive complex and sensitive and difficult information, which may be in a challenging and emotive atmosphere.
Communicate and collaborate with ward manager peers, medical staff, patients, families and carers, general public, external agencies, voluntary agencies, GP’s, other regional NHS Trusts
Listen to services users and carers to promote and practice shared decision making
Collaborate with service user/carer groups and representatives to promote service improvement and development
Organise, facilitate and chair daily reviews, handovers, multi-disciplinary reviews and ward meetings; ensuring robust information pathways.
Prepare and present accurate reports both verbal and written.
Adopt and oversee accurate, robust and high standard of record keeping
Communicate with service users and carers in order to positively develop therapeutic relationships
Promote and practice a culture of compassion where relationships are based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity
Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills in managing conflict and resolution
Adopt a common sense approach to confidentiality
Contribute to the management of complaints and serious incidents investigations
Attend meetings in the absence of the ward manager
Represent the team at operational, and clinical forums as delegated by the ward manager to ensure effective two-way communication.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Be registered with RMN/RNMH/RNLD qualification
Hold ENB 998 or P126/127 or equivalent qualification
Demonstrate post registration experience
Have previously functioned in in-patient areas
Understand and implement mental health legislation
Demonstrate continued professional development
PLANNING AND ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS
Prioritise work, oversee and coordinate clinical resources on a daily basis to meet service user needs.
Contribute to the planning of the future delivery of inpatient services
Be accountable for staff rotas, ensuring adequate provision of staff across shifts and taking appropriate action when staff numbers are below acceptable levels.
RESPONSIBILITIES FOR PATIENT/CLIENT CARE
Deliver and maintain high standards of clinical care and contribute to achieving the Care Quality Commission Essential Standards. They will identify and act on any circumstances or practices which may compromise standards, quality of care and/or patient safety and report to the ward manager.
Advocate and maintain a philosophy of care which is person/carer centred, maintaining dignity and independence and consistently right for that person at that time.
Lead collaboratively with the ward manager in the implementation of care delivery systems, ensuring contemporary clinical practice is outcome focussed and of the highest professional standard.
Devise, implement and evaluate individual plans of care based on a person centred assessment.
Develop and deliver therapeutic clinical based interventions which meet the complex needs of service users.
Ensure that robust risk management systems are implemented and functioning.
Assist in establishing systems to promote regular family/carer contact support to encourage collaborative decision making
Assist, support and debrief service users and carers following critical incidents and difficult situations
Assist in establishing systems to promote regular family/carer contact support to encourage collaborative decision making
Challenge practice high may be out-dated or no longer appropriate by developing effective change management strategies to continuously improve practice and service provision.
Have courage to speak out, challenge and act when things feel wrong.
Promote and practise a culture of compassion where relationships are based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity
Co-ordinate and implement the Care Programme Approach within the Multidisciplinary Team to ensure effective and appropriate teamwork
Demonstrate and promote safe practice in medication management, including storage, administration and stock control.
Implement local Safeguarding procedures and other statutory requirements.
POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
Implements Trust policies
Contribute to achieving all required Trust Quality & Performance objectives
Maintain Health and Safety Standards using existing mechanisms e.g. Clinical Risk Assessment, Environmental Risk Assessment, Moving and Handling, COSHH
Contribute to developing, delivering and maintaining the Ward Operational Policy.
Support any review of service provision
Contribute to the development of Trust wide policies and procedures.
Describe the current national and local priorities which have an influence on service provision.
WORKING CONDITIONS
Regular exposure to body fluids
Verbal aggression from service users can occur most days, several times per shift, depending on service user group
Physical aggression from service users is a potential hazard because of unpredictable nature of service user group.
The post holder may be required to work within different areas across the Trust.
Exposure to constant and excessive noise.
SAFEGUARDING
Every employee has a responsibility for safeguarding and protecting adults and children from abuse, regardless of the setting in which the care takes place. It is every employee’s responsibility to be aware of relevant Trust
Policies. All employees should take part in training in order to maintain their skills. Front line practitioners should access regular supervision and support in line with local procedures.
HEALTH AND SAFETY
Contribute to maintaining a safe environment of care through effective risk
management. Identify risks and develop appropriate strategies to manage the
risks including responding appropriately to untoward/emergency situations.
TRUST CLINICAL GOVERNANCE STRATEGY
It is the responsibility of all health care professionals to play an active role in delivering the clinical governance agenda. There is a specific responsibility for individual health care professionals to be involved in auditing their own and their team’s clinical performance, and to engage in activities, which continuously improve, the quality of services they provide.
Information of a Confidential Nature or Access to Confidential Information
“To be aware of the nature of information dealt within the NHS and to work in a manner which ensures confidentiality and security of this information”
INFECTION CONTROL
All Trust staff (clinical and non-clinical, including locum and agency staff employed by external contractors) have a personal responsibility to ensure the risk of infection to themselves, service users and visitors is minimised by ensuring that they (1) are familiar and adhere to, current Trust policy and guidance on infection prevention and control, (2) participate in the Trusts induction programme and statutory/required training in infection prevention and control and (3) consider infection prevention and control as part of their appraisal and/or personal development plans’.
CALDICOTT RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Justify the purpose (s) of every proposed use or transfer – every proposed
use or transfer of patient-identifiable information within an organisation should
be clearly defined and scrutinised, with continuing uses regularly reviewed by
an appropriate guardian.
- Don’t use it unless it is absolutely necessary – Patient-identifiable information
should not be used unless there is no alternative, where this is the case permission should be obtained.
- Use the minimum necessary – Where use of patient-identifiable information is considered to be essential, each individual item of information should be justified with the aim of reducing identification.
- Access should be on a strict need-to-know basis – Only those individuals who need access to patient-identifiable information should have access to it, and they should only have access to the information items that they need to see.
- Everyone with access to it should be aware of their responsibilities – Action should be taken to ensure that those handling patient-identifiable information are aware of their responsibilities and obligations to respect patient confidentiality.
- Understand and comply with the law – Every use of patient-identifiable information must be lawful. Each department must have someone responsible for ensuring that the organisation complies with legal requirements.
ACCESS TO CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION:
To be aware of the nature of information dealt with within the NHS, and to work in a manner which ensures confidentiality and security of this information.
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of the duties and responsibilities of the post and the post holder may be requested to carry out any other duties appropriate to the grade or post.
The post may change over time to meet organisational requirements and the job description may be changed after consultation with the post holder at any time.
Salary – £31,365 – £37,890
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