Community Nurse: Community Intravenous (IV) Service

Job responsibilities

Clinical

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate all aspects of patient care, enabling the safe administration of IV medication in peoples own homes.
• Following a holistic assessment, devise an individualised, evidence-based care programme for each patient, modifying it as required.
• Assess patients holistic needs, communicating complex and sensitive information to patients and carers as to their assessment, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment plan.
• Where there are barriers to understanding, such as hearing impairment, mental capacity impairment and other difficulties in comprehension, explanations require adjustments in order to gain understanding, consent and concordance.
• Be required to use tact and persuasive skills in order to gain the patients co-operation in their care management plan.
• Liaise with the Clinical Lead and Norfolk and Norwich University Trust clinicians when clinical concerns are raised.
• Liaise with Homeward, Supportive Care, GPs, Social Services, inpatient teams, other allied health care professionals and the voluntary sector to ensure identified needs are met and care co-ordinated appropriately.
• Be aware of assistive technology and utilise where appropriate.
• To participate in multi-disciplinary/multi-agency meetings as appropriate, e.g. Gold Standard Framework.
• Ensure own caseload is planned and prioritised according to service targets and patient need.
• Ensure patient held records are completed for each visit, and that SystmOne inputting is completed on a daily basis.
• Demonstrate dexterity and co-ordination when using specialist equipment and fine tools, advanced sensory skills, manual and mobilising skills.
• Be skilled at intravenous cannulation, IV line management and general phlebotomy, following local policy and guidance
• Contribute to the requisitioning of supplies and equipment through electronic ordering systems.
• Ensure informed consent is obtained prior to initiating interventions.
• Will be exposed to bodily fluids, infected material, blood products on a daily basis, therefore must utilise universal precautions and adhere to infection control policies.
• Become competent in numerous nursing skills to provide urgent and unplanned response to patients to prevent avoidable admissions to hospital.

Professional

• The post holder will:
• Actively contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings and other meetings where appropriate.

• Support all team members within the integrated team, respecting them, their roles and contributions.
• Be responsible for safe use and maintenance of equipment and supplies.
• Remain accountable for own professional actions as determined by the professional bodies.
• Provide advice / training to less experienced staff and supervise / support band 3 and 4 staff and students where appropriate: contributing to the induction process for new staff/students.
• Comment on draft policies.
• Maintain own continuous professional development
• Ensure own workload is planned and prioritised
• Be accountable for work delegated to others within the team, ensuring staff are competent to undertake delegated work.
• Attend in-house training as required to develop current job role.
• Demonstrate leadership skills within own competence.

Qualifications

Essential

• Diploma or 1st level degree in Nursing or equivalent
• RN Qualification
• Current NMC Registration

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of working at relevant level within the community or acute setting
• Knowledge of additional specialist areas through in-house training and short courses
• Cannulation / IV Therapy administration

Desirable

• Experience in acute setting

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

Essential

• Highly motivated
• Able to provide high standards of care
• Ability to use own initiative
• Good observational & reporting skills
• Ability to manage stressful situations
• Concentrate when undertaking patient care & inputting data/patient records
• Good time management skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• A team player
• Flexible approach to work to accommodate patient/service needs
• Have basic IT and standard keyboard skills.
• Able to kneel, bend & stoop, and work in cramped environments
• Able to manoeuvre limbs of around 5-6 kg
• Able to manoeuvre patients using handling aids
• Able to make own travel arrangements to patients' homes, clinics, base and meetings etc, as required by the service

Desirable

• Knowledge of additional specialist areas through in-house training & short courses, including:Palliative care, Long term conditions, Diabetes management, Be aware of Assistive Technology

Communication

Essential

• Good communication skills
• Tact & diplomacy
• Empathy & sensitivity
• Ability to report and escalate issues.
• Able to communicate effectively in written verbal English language.

Personal and People Development

Desirable

• Experience supervising junior staff

Personal Attributes / Behaviours

Essential

• Professional appearance
• Be reliable
• Able to identify with the Trust's commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people/vulnerable adults

Other

Essential

• The post holder will be required to work over seven days a week
• The post holder will need to be passed fit to be perform full duties of the post through occupational health with any reasonable aids and adaptations if necessary.
• Must hold full and valid driving license and have access to a vehicle

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).