Clinical sister

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Communication and relationship skills

• To lead and ensure the assessment, review and care planning of residents needs is robust and embedded in practice
• Provide expert clinical intervention by promoting timely and appropriate decision making and assessments for residents
• Participate in the writing of reports in an accurate thorough way using IT, electronic documentation
• To actively liaise with other MCH services, acute providers, Continuing Healthcare , Safeguarding, Dols , Community Mental Health
• Work with multi-disciplinary team to facilitate timely and appropriate clinical management of residents.
• Provide clinical leadership and act as role model for all unit staff
• Ability to communicate information regarding the residents medical condition and individualised treatment programmes in an easy to understand, reassuring way, enabling and motivating where necessary
• To attend and actively participate in team and service meetings

1. Knowledge, training and experience

• Registered Nurse. Desirable at degree level or Mental Health Nurse with at least one year experience as Band 5.
• Post graduate professional development related to maintaining registration
• Able to evidence continuous professional development in their current field or adjunctive field
• Proven ability to work on own initiative and accept personal accountability

Below is the usual clinical training and experience required for an Adult nurse working in community health services:

• Preparation of mentors qualification
• Obtain and interpret patients observations News Score, Restore
• Male and female catheterisation
• Know principles of infection and prevention control
• Verification of death
• Sound clinical knowledge and skills in the support of immediate management of residents requiring clinical intervention
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working
• DOLS

Below are transferrable skills

• Understanding of budget/resource management
• Able to work flexibly and cooperatively as well as autonomously
• Confident with decision making
• Possess a working knowledge of IT software programmes and how they function, with a good standard of inputting skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Negotiation and problem-solving skills.
• Good analytical and reflection skills
• Well-developed concentration skills and organisational skills
• Awareness of standards of record keeping.
• Experience of wide range of clinical settings.
• To develop a working knowledge of relevant procedures including (vulnerable adults, Mental Capacity Act etc.) and other legal requirements.
• To develop a working knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and audit and their application to professional practice.
• Awareness of limitations, personal strengths and weaknesses
• Reflective practitioner
• Adopts a problem-solving approach
• Flexible, Reliable and organised
• Professional approach and appearance
• To participate in teaching on the unit for both individual staff and groups

1. Analytical and judgement skills

• To assess nursing practice and standards on the unit through audit and supervision, to ensure organisation policies and local SOPs are applied at all times.
• To demonstrate the ability to support the reflection of practice for the unit team to facilitate development of skills and safe processes.
• Ability to deal with complex information regarding client care and plan accordingly.
• Provide and facilitate assessment of extended nursing and caring skills of the team with the assistance of the Team leader or others specialist colleagues as appropriate.
• Manage own workload independently using clinical judgement to make informed and appropriate decisions regarding patient care.

1. Planning and organisational skills

• To participate in the planning of service objectives.
• Ability to work as part of a team to consider service changes and produce action plans and lead on clinical changes, keeping within agreed time scales.
• Set and monitor clinical standards of care for residents, ensuring these are achieved through individual care plans, using the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation process

1. Physical skills

• Undertake the nursing care of the resident in accordance with care plans. Physically carrying out personal care and assisting with mobility whilst encouraging the patient to be as independent as possible and maintaining their privacy and dignity
• Good computer skills in Word, Excel, Outlook and other software packages.

1. Responsibility for patient / client care

• To ensure that all residents receive an up to date assessment, plan of care and regular reviews of needs.
• To provide expert clinical knowledge and skills in the support of the immediate management of residents requiring clinical intervention and dementia specialist care.
• Provide professional leadership and act as a role model advising, mentoring, guiding and supporting staff to understand and contribute to clinical practice.
• Encourage, actively promote and participate in if appropriate, the use of case conferences.
• Being an advocate for the residents by anticipating their needs and act in their best interest when required .
• To demonstrate empathy with residents, carers, families and colleagues, ensuring that effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to understanding exist.
• To deal with initial complaints sensitively and to process according to organisation policy
• Actively promote good communication in all interactions with staff, residents, relatives and significant others

1. Responsibility for policy and service development implementation

• The post holder is required to comply with, uphold and promote organisational policies and
• Standard operating procedures.
• To ensure that clinical practise is evidence based and utilises audit to prove outcomes.
• Implement, contribute and propose changes to policies and procedures which impact on patient care and safe care or service processes
• Knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the client group
• The post holder will need to take due account, in the way they achieve the key result areas of the organisation policies and procedures
• Actively promote an effective learning environment and participate in the education and professional development for nurses, care/support workers .
• Actively participate in clinical audit and clinical governance activities.

1. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources

• Understanding of resource/budget management
• To effectively manage the area in accordance with available financial resources
• Handles resident valuables and property in accordance with MCH policy

1. Responsibilities for human resources (HR)

• Maintain a professional manner and act as a role model.
• To integrate and supervise the role and work of support staff as part of the team so that a coordinated resident centred service is achieved.
• Act as a mentor and facilitator for staff on the unit
• Use the appraisal system to identify training and development needs of all staff
• Facilitate and participate in training and education programmes, promote an effective and efficient discharge process
• Participate in supervision
• Organise and deploy staff according to competencies and workload
• Assist the team leader in identifying and securing agency staff.
• To ensure staff compliance with all organisation polices and employment legislation.
• Ensure all new staff are orientated and participate in induction programmes
• To participate in the appraisal process so that personal, professional and organisational goals are met.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

• As per person spec

Experience

Essential

• As per service spec

Special knowledge/expertise

Essential

• As per person spec

Disposition & attitude

Essential

• As per person spec

Practical skills

Essential

• As per person spec

Values

Essential

• As per service spec

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Medway Community Healthcare

Address

Darland House

29 Darland Avenue

Gillingham

ME7 3AL

Employer's website

https://www.medwaycommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)