Care and Support Worker - Community Respiratory

Job description

Job responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Management and Leadership

Contribute to creating improvement, transformation and innovation within the service in order to promote best practice.

Demonstrate effective time management skills.

To commit to continuous personal development/lifelong learning by attending mandatory training, use of eLearning and adhere to all trust policies and procedures.

To understand owns role within the wider multi-disciplinary team and articulate own developmental needs through attending clinical supervision, 1:1 sessions, undertaking appraisal preparation and contributing to objective setting and personal development planning.

Participate in clinical supervision.

Promote service development, improvements and quality expansion and efficiencies.

Support provision for a high quality, value for money and effective service.

Support effective use of IT systems to ensure accurate data recording.

Actively lead on maintenance of medical devices, risk assessment and team health and safety as per Trust policy.

To identify equipment provision and carry out administrative and housekeeping tasks to support the service and patient care.

Clinical Responsibilities

To co-support a case load of respiratory patients, under direction of the community respiratory specialist nursing team, following assessment, across the community respiratory specialist service, within clinic and home environments

Perform diagnostic spirometry.

Support respiratory patients and family/carer involvement and participation.

Accurately record clinical data and understand its significance including heart rate and rhythm, respiratory rate, pulse oximetry, peak flow rate, and, blood pressure.

To complete effective record keeping which demonstrates the care given, as well as patient outcomes in accordance with Trust policy and legal requirements.

Understand the benefits of non-pharmacological interventions for respiratory illness/conditions including smoking cessation, weight management and nutrition, and physical activity.

Understand motivational skills and empathetic communication.

Promote health and healthy informed choices.

Able to review smoking status, and provide very brief advice and refer to appropriate smoking service.

Have knowledge of the benefits of exercise and pulmonary rehabilitation and refer to appropriate local rehabilitation programs.

Able to review and train inhaler technique to patients, carers and other health care professionals.

Have awareness, knowledge and implementation of safeguarding processes in relation to children, vulnerable patients and carers.

Support education of patients and carers and students, and, other staff as appropriate.

Have awareness of the importance of research, audit and quality improvement.

To participate in and contribute to all activities associated with the teams response to current trends and changes within the NHS.

Promote and support effective implementation of all Organisational Policies and Procedures, and, practice in accordance with.

Liase with multi-disciplinary teams, referring as appropriate.

Support and promote a team culture which actively encourages empowerment, thereby supporting and facilitating change.

Support the provision of a high quality, value for money and effective service within available resources.

Possess good IT skills and use of systems.

Educational Responsibilities

Support training for the multidisciplinary team in the management of respiratory disease.

To regularly attend and participate in training, peer support and clinical supervision.

Support others to develop knowledge and skills.

Service user/carer teaching and information giving.

Support local patient groups, including hospice, providing appropriate education.

Acts as a resource for improving health.

Research

Support any research and service development.

Support audit and service evaluation.

Support proposed changes to working practices or procedures in own work area.

Person Specification

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Good interpersonal skills.
• Able to engage and build effective relationships at all levels.
• Understanding of the role of HCSW.
• Able to work as part of a team.
• Knowledge and understanding of the need for confidentiality.

Special Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Good verbal and written command of
• English.
• Ability to act upon own initiative.
• Good communication skills.
• Able to work under some pressure.
• Ability to show leadership
• Ability to plan own work.
• Ability to work calmly under pressure.
• Willing to take and record patient
• observations.

Desirable

• nowledge of care and related procedures, clinical observations, relevant legislation

Experience

Essential

• Computer skills.
• Ability to learn new skills.

Desirable

• Previous experience in caring for others.

Special Requirements

Essential

• Self-motivated and able to motivate others.
• Excellent communication & interpersonal
• skills.
• Reflective practitioner.
• Ability to work in a busy and varied work
• environment and respond to change.

Desirable

• Be able to offer pastoral care to mentors and students when providing feedback on performance.

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant NVQ Level 3 or equivalent relevant experience.
• Care Certificate or willingness to complete within first 6 months of commencement in post.
• GCSE equivalent in English and Mathematics.

Desirable

• Short courses relevant to undertake patient and clinical care duties.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Innovation House

Bishop Auckland

County Durham

DL14 6XB

Employer's website

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