Eating Disorders Nursing Associate or Clinical Support Worker

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Patient/Client Care

• Co-ordinate and liaise with service users for medical monitoring appointments

• Facilitate full medical monitoring clinics including taking bloods; performing ECG tests; taking patient observations such as blood pressure and pulse, and other investigative physical health tests as per Kings College guidelines for individuals with an eating disorder and as per direction from senior staff.
• Report any deterioration of the service users physical or mental state appropriately and timely
• Practice within professional guidelines and promote professional practice in clinical area.
• Record accurate notes and observations in patient clinical records system
• Ensure high standard and accurate verbal/written communication about patient care with all team members.
• Ensure that a service user centred multi-disciplinary approach to care is present

• Assess, plan, implement and monitor care in keeping with evidence based practice.

• Ensure timely referrals to a registered nurse or other appropriate clinician when any actions, care or treatment is required.

• To provide guidance to junior staff relevant to clinical speciality

• Ensuring that care reflects individual and cultural needs taking into account any reasonable adjustments that may be required

• Ensure that the service provides holistic care that incorporates excellence in physical, mental health care management and general wellbeing.

• Understand and apply the aims and principles of health promotion, protection and improvement and the prevention of ill health when engaging with people

• Undertake training and assessment to expand clinical skills and knowledge relevant to clinical practice needs.

• Ensure that the clinical environment is pleasant, clean, comfortable and suitable for use at all times liaising with other departments as necessary.

• Recognise and act upon safeguarding concerns

• Ensure that all practices are within the guidelines set out by the NMC and other professional groups and are in accordance with Trust policies.

• Prepare and clean treatment and clinic rooms, ensuring IPC measures are implemented and adhered to as per Trust policies and procedures.
• Maintain medical monitoring stock, completing a regular stock take ensuring adequate stock is available.
• Collaborate with external partners such as GPs and other professionals involved in an individuals care. Providing correspondence and updates on current treatment and medical monitoring.

Policy and Service Development

• Exercise professional responsibility for adhering to Trust Policies and Procedures.

• Contribute to policy, practice changes and service improvements arising from audits, complaints and serious untoward incidents.

• Update and maintain clinical expertise within national, Trustwide and health care initiatives in order to effectively contribute to service development.

• Contribute to the development of a culture that actively promotes the involvement of service users and carers.

• Participate in projects within the service and the Trust as negotiated with your service.

• Active participant in developing and implementing Quality Improvement initiatives within your area of work.

Financial and Physical Resources

• Ensure effective use of available resources.

• Working in conjunction with the Clinical Nurse Specialist and Operational Manger to ensure effective medical monitoring clinic cover

Human Resources

• Support and develop other staff. Share knowledge as appropriate

• Allocate, supervise and monitor work given to junior staff.

• Provide support to all Team members to ensure the smooth running of the medical monitoring pathway in relation to the wider service offer

• Assist senior staff in staff training and development and recruitment and selection, as appropriate.

• Promote learning environment and to work alongside students and liaise with the Student Nurse Mentors in order to support their learning objectives as required

Information Resources

• Ensure patient records are up to date and are an accurate reflection of the situation.

• Ensuring that work is fully compliant with the requirements of the GDPR.

Research and Development

• To assist in ensuring Quality Improvement clinical audit becomes part of everyday practice.

• To assist in research as appropriate to clinical area.

• To support a culture of research and development appropriate to clinical area and current area of specialism in Eating Disorders

Freedom to Act

Manage own workload ensuring this is in line with relevant policies, procedures and Nursing Accountability Framework.

Actively participate in appraisal and goal setting process and evaluate throughout the year.

Ensure participation in regular clinical and managerial supervision with the line manager and clinical supervisor .

Physical Effort

To be fully conversant with Moving and Handling Security Policies in practice.

Ensure you are full trained and annually updated in management of aggression and violence in order that Trust guidelines are followed in the management of violent or aggressive patients.

Emotional Effort

Manage distressing and challenging situations in a sensitive and non-threatening way to reduce anxieties and promote effective resolutions.

Flexible approach, able to recognise signs of stress in self and others and take the appropriate action.

Acknowledge own strengths and limitation and discuss/identify training and development needs in management supervision.

Remain optimistic in therapeutic engagement with patients, family and carers

To work within the anti-bullying policy providing support to bullies, victims and other members of the nursing team.

Working Conditions

Take an active role in ensuring working conditions are safe.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential

• Venepuncture Trained
• GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or skills level 2 Maths & English or equivalent

Desirable

• Registered Nursing Associate
• Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification

Experience

Essential

• Work experience relevant to the post
• Working within a multidisciplinary team environment
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment and knowledge of methods to develop culturally sensitive practice
• Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
• Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
• *(for Nursing Associate) Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation, and how the role may contribute to service development
• *(for Nursing Associate) Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice contained within The Code.
• Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice
• *(for Nursing Associate) Understand requirements for NMC professional Revalidation
• Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of de-escalation
• Able to work systematically and objectively in an environment with patients who can present high risk
• Able to manage time so that deadlines are met
• Ability to recognise stress Ability to work as part of a team
• Able to work sensitively and compassionately with patients
• Awareness of supervision and reflective practice
• Able to identify and act upon critical deterioration of patient conditions
• *(for Nursing Associate) Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and health care support workers as required within the clinical setting.

Desirable

• Ability to assess, plan, implement and monitor care

Other

Essential

• Motivated to providing the highest standards of care in a changing service
• Awareness of equal opportunities in the workplace
• Able to work within the accountability framework Personal Integrity
• Ability to travel between sites in order to deliver services from various community bases across the county

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).

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Mountbatten House

56 High Street South

Dunstable

LU6 3HD

Employer's website

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