Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The post holder is required to:
1. Have
responsibility for managing of patients/clients within a defined clinical
service/area, providing evidence-based care and advice.
2. Provides
a nursing assessment of patients/clients; plans, develops and/or implements and
evaluates programmes of care.
3. Provide
clinical supervision to other staff, students
4. May be
responsible for routine work allocation and checking of tasks of support staff
and/or less experienced staff.
5. Provide
health promotion information, advice
Promoting Health and
Health Equity
Health
promotion and prevention, equality, diversity and inclusion
1.
Understand and promote factors that contribute to an
impact on physical and mental health and wellbeing and actively use patient
contacts to promote health improvement and promotion and support positive
behaviour change.
2.
Provide planned and opportunistic health screening for
household patients to optimise health and well being.
3.
Support patients and or carers, including use of
technologies for self-care management, to optimise supported self-care,
health and recovery.
4.
Have an understanding of and promote health inequalities
and equity and provide support to optimisation of health and well-being
5.
Adhere and promote policies that reduce environmental
health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access to health care for
all
6.
Act in ways which
demonstrates appropriate equality and diversity behaviours to patients,
colleagues and public
Equality and Diversity
It is the responsibility of every person to act
in ways that support equality and diversity and work within the spirit and
detail of legislation including the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights
Act 1998.
The Trust is an Equal
Opportunities Employer and aims to challenge discrimination, promote equality
and respect human rights.
Communication and
Care Delivery
Communication
and interpersonal skills and tools, assessment, care and interventions,
documentation, confidentiality
1.
Communicate effectively with patients, staff and public
using verbal, non-verbal and interpersonal skills within everyday
interactions, using strategies to address any barriers to understanding.
2.
Use manual and digital systems as effective communication
tools with members of the health care team including for planned
interventions and in times of escalation when supporting patient safety,
contemporaneous record keeping and confidentiality.
3.
Plan, assess and evaluate programmes of care, including
of a patient and or carer, according to changing health needs under the
direction of the District Nurse, making informed decisions when deploying any
responsible adjustments to an identified patient need.
4.
Deliver effective care and clinical skills including the
safe administration and destruction of medicines, maximising patient dignity,
comfort and safety.
5.
Utilise monitoring processes including of vital signs,
taking timely intervention, action and or escalation when supporting patient
safety.
6.
Understand and use relevant patient pathways and
discharge processes aimed at optimising the patient experience and outcomes,
communicating and collaborating with other members of the Primary Health Care
Team, voluntary and statutory organisations to support individual patient
care.
7.
Communicate appropriately, during and following a
patients transfer of care, with health professionals or support networks,
maintaining a patient safety approach.
Mental Capacity Act 2005
The
Mental Capacity Act 2005 applies to all Trust staff. It is the responsibility
of every person to ensure that they keep up to date with the Act and that the
delivery of patient care/services is conducted in line with local and
national policy and the MCA Code of Practice.
Safeguarding is Everyones Business
The Trust has a responsibility to ensure that all
children / young people and adults are adequately safeguarded and protected.
As a consequence, all Trust employees are required to adhere to national and
local safeguarding policies / procedures and to act upon any concerns in
accordance with them.
Infection Control
It is Trust policy to reduce the risk of
Healthcare Associated Infection by having in place Infection Prevention and
Control Policies. These policies must be adhered to by all staff to ensure
patients are cared for in a clean environment and receive the highest
standards of clinical care.
Promoting Evidence
Based Practice in Care
Standards,
protocols, policies and evidenced based practice
1.
Use information technology systems to access resources
e.g., clinical guidelines and policies, relevant publications to assist in
the delivery of clinical interventions and in support of patient safety.
2.
Use learning experiences of observation, supervision,
feedback, reflective practice techniques and evaluation, to support care
delivery and patient safety, recognising people as a source of learning and
expertise.
3.
Support opportunities to learn and develop, striving to
reach maximum potential.
4.
Support implementation of quality improvement or research
initiatives and activities.
5.
Deliver care and clinical skills according to the trust
policies, based on evidenced- based practice, organised by the caseload
holder or nominated representative.
6.
Work to local, regional and national policies, procedures
and best practice.
Person and People
Development
People
management, team management or self-management, resource management
1.
Contribute to teams vision, values and objectives
including the use of respectful, compassionate and kind behaviours in daily
work.
2.
Plan and manage own time and competing and changing
demands of job role, continuous professional development and work-related
activities adopting positive action and professional behaviours when
delivering person-centred-care for an allocated group of individuals.
3.
Support the team
leader in the co-ordination of simple, complex and continuing care packages
4.
Participate in team, service and organisational
development opportunities, whilst maintaining and updating existing skills,
embracing the concept of Lifelong Learning.
5.
Identify areas for development within a Personal
Development Plan in collaboration with District Nurse Team Manager /District
Nursing Caseload Holder
6.
Adopt positive behaviours, helping to inspire, enable and
empower others.
7.
Participate in supervision as guided by Team Manager
8.
Support effective team working by influencing,
negotiating and communication with others
9.
Be environmentally aware and prudent in the use of
resources and energy.
Training
The post-holder must attend any training that is
identified as mandatory to their role.
The range of duties and responsibilities outlined
above are indicative only and are intended to give an overview of the range
and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification
in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of
the post-holder.
Please see attached full Job Description and Person Specification.
