Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities:
You will undertake a variety of duties, mostly offering
support and advice to System providers regarding vulnerable patients in
Community as part of an MDT, undertake best interest discussions with patients
and family members and help co-ordinate a response to support people in need to
stay home whenever possible.
You may be needed to visit a complex frail patient at home
or undertake telephone consultations.
Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to
presenting problems.
Assessing the health care needs of complex patients with
undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems, highlighting which services would
support them best to stay in their home setting and independent whenever
possible.
Cover the clinical management of patients as appropriate
including initiating investigations, reviewing results, making referrals to
other providers/services as appropriate.
Record clear and contemporaneous computerised consultation
notes to agreed standards.
Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat
prescriptions.
Prescribe generically whenever appropriately and in
accordance with NICE guidance and Good Prescribing Practice (as defined by
British National Formulary guidance).
Work with and support other members of the MDT, including
but not limited to social workers, therapists, social prescribers, voluntary
support workers, frailty nurses, dieticians, UCR paramedics and other Frailty
GPs.
Promote the application of standards and codes of Practice
set by the Royal College of General Practice, General Medical Council,
Department of Health, British Geriatrics Society and local NHS trust.
Participate in national frailty training and maintain high
volume of CPD in Frailty related conditions with the aim of obtaining the
Diploma in Geriatric Medicine.
Other Responsibilities:
Involve and contribute to the mentoring, supervision and
training of the broad multi-professional clinical team.
Be aware of and comply with all relevant
policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health
and safety.
Commitment and contribution to achievement of the highest
possible quality standards.
Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure
evidence-based best practice.
Contribute to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting
within the organisation.
Attendance at regular in-house governance and educational
meetings and training as well as events at other agencies as appropriate.
Assist with the training of other staff members.
Contribute to the development of computer-based patient
records.
Contribute to the summarising of patient records and
Read-Coding patient data.
Take responsibility that any equipment either clinical or
otherwise, used when working, is taken due care of and locked away at the end
of every working session.
Business responsibilities:
Act as a positive role model.
Maintain ethos and culture of Nimbuscare.
Positively promote Nimbuscare.
Support Line Managers as required.
Adhere to Health & Safety and educate staff within your
role.
Apply Nimbuscare policies, standards and guidance.
Attend in-house governance, educational and staff meetings
as appropriate.
Suggest and support the introduction of new working
processes to optimise quality.
Communicate to ensure that all employees operate as an
effective team.
Build and maintain relationships with other healthcare
professionals, including GPs, GP surgery personnel, care home personnel and CCG
personnel etc.
Safeguarding:
Everyone within Nimbuscare has a responsibility for, and is
committed to, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Adults-at-risk
(vulnerable adults), children and young people and for ensuring that they are
protected from harm.
Be fully aware of and understand your duties and
responsibilities arising from the Childrens Act 2004 and Working Together to
Safeguard Children 2018, in relation to child protection and safeguarding
children and young people.
Be fully aware of and understand your duties and
responsibilities arising from the DOH Policy No Secrets (2000), and the
principles of safeguarding as they apply to Adults-at-risk (vulnerable adults)
in relation to your work.
Recognise the types and signs of abuse and neglect.
Ensure the Nimbuscare Safeguarding Lead is alerted to, and
kept fully informed of, any concerns you may have in relation to safeguarding
adults, children and young people.
Adhere to Nimbuscare and local Child Protection and
Safeguarding Adult policies and procedures.
Learning and development:
You will participate in any training programme implemented
by Nimbuscare as part of this employment, such training to include:
Participation in individual performance reviews, including
maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
Working in conjunction with senior management, assess own
learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.
Develop and utilise a written Personal Development Plan.
Make effective use of learning opportunities within and
outside the workplace, evaluating their effectiveness and feeding back relevant
information.
Disseminate learning and information gained to other team
members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and
future developments.
Undertake mandatory and statutory training as required.
Team working:
Understand own role and scope in the organisation and
identify how this may develop over time.
Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting
others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working.
Accept delegation from senior staff, prioritise own workload
and ensure effective time management strategies are embedded in own practice.
Participate in team activities that create opportunities to
improve patient care.
Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on
own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance
the teams performance.
Participate and support local projects as agreed with the
management team.
Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles
of safe practice and assessment of competence of those taking on delegated
duties.
Confidentiality:
In the course of seeking treatment, customers entrust us
with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health
and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that
you will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
In the performance of your duties outlined in this Job
Description, you may have access to confidential information relating to
customers and their carers, Nimbuscare staff and other healthcare workers. You
may also have access to information relating to Nimbuscare as a business
organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as
strictly confidential.
Information relating to customers, carers, colleagues, other
healthcare workers or the business of Nimbuscare may only be divulged to
authorised persons in accordance with Nimbuscare policies and procedures
relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Be aware of your responsibilities under the General Data
Protection Regulations (GDPR).
Health & Safety:
You will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and
others health, safety and security as defined in the Nimbuscare Health &
Safety Policy, to include:
Using personal security systems within the workplace
according to guidelines.
Identifying the risks involved in work activities and
undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
Making effective use of training to update your knowledge
and skills.
Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining
work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
Reporting potential risks identified.
Equality and Diversity:
You will support the equality, diversity and rights of
customers, carers and colleagues, to include:
Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples
rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Nimbuscare
procedures and policies, and current legislation.
Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of
customers, carers and colleagues.
Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the
individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings
priorities and rights.
Quality:
You will strive to maintain quality within Nimbuscare, and
will:
Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
Assess own performance and take accountability for own
actions, either directly or under supervision.
Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
Work within own limitations and experience.
Be aware of and co-operate with audit.
Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet
patients needs.
Portray a professional image at all times.
