Job responsibilities
Detailed Job description and responsibilities
- Communicate clinical information and other important aspects regarding patient centred care to colleagues, senior therapy and nursing staff
- Under the direction of the senior team, communicate information to patients, carers and visitors in an empathetic and tactful manner
- Effectively communicate with people who have communication difficulties, partial hearing, mental illness or who are partially sighted
- Foster an interdisciplinary approach to practice within the clinical environments
- Basic nursing care duties alongside colleagues, patient and non-patient manual handling and dealing with potentially volatile situations
- Basic resuscitation skills
- Basic IT skills
- Demonstrate skills and support less experienced staff, new staff, bank, agency and students as a feature of daily work routine
- Provide education and training to patients, carers and colleagues
- Complete routine department and patient documentation in line with agreed local policies
- Assist in maintaining patient and carer information (notice boards and information leaflets)
- In conjunction with colleagues, be able to understand patients condition; using knowledge of anatomy, physiology, normal function, basic assessments and test results
- Able to recognise the impact of cognitive and perceptual problems on patients performance
- Able to recognise the need and importance for appropriate risk assessments for patients requiring enhanced observation
- Able to take appropriate action which may avoid foreseeable harm to patients, carers, colleagues and visitors
- To use observational information and patient knowledge to inform intervention plans
- Can adapt to changes in working pattern and environment on a day or weekly basis
- Can plan and organise assigned tasks, when carrying out duties in relation to effective patient care and assessment
- Plan and carry out group activities both with colleagues and independently, in accordance with the treatment plans (e.g. exercise activities, meaningful occupation)
- Participate in planning care, following a patient centred approach
- Undertake assigned care and assessment to achieve stated objectives. This includes personal care, physical exercise, functional practice and tasks to improve cognition and communication
- Prioritise workload to facilitate patients recovery whilst respecting patients dignity and privacy
- Undertake and record clinical observation, routine tests, and outcome measures
- Advises and assists patients and others in the safe use of available support services
- Knowledge of local and Trusts policies and procedures
- Knowledge of using appropriate resources in a cost-effective manner
- Ordering and maintaining unit stock levels as directed by a budget holding member of staff
- Participate in clinical audit, research and quality monitoring as required
- Using initiative to act on changes in patient circumstances under the guidance of registered staff
- Recognise the need to seek guidance when necessary
- Carry out duties both with and without direct supervision
- Working in potentially volatile situations
- Standing, walking, sitting and climbing stairs
- Working in awkward positions
- Manual handling of patients and loads and use of mechanical aids
- Frequent light physical effort
- Several periods of moderate physical effort during every shift
- Able to follow routine of the workplace whilst being able to adapt to unpredictable events in clinical practice
- Forming and managing therapeutic relationships with patients (in particular those patients with cognitive / perceptual / behavioural difficulties)
- Form and manage therapeutic relationships with families and carers
- Concentration on documenting care and observations, multitasking and occasional interruptions
