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Job role: Registered Nurse
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 203-CS1233
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About the Job:
- Act in accordance with current local Warwickshire Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children and SWFT guidelines/policy to protect vulnerable adults and children.
- Contribute towards ensuring AHP & Nursing Strategy is implemented across the Integrated Health Team.
- To undertake the first contact assessment, including planning, implementation, evaluation, and reassessments of the care plans.
- In the absence of the senior nurse, to take responsibility for the day-to-day management of the nursing workload, delegating the workload appropriately to other team members.
- To establish priorities of care in accordance with caseload management
- To take responsibility for updating and developing professional knowledge and skills that relate to clinical practice
- To act within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and comply with the Trust’s policies and procedures
- To participate in the development, training, and mentorship of pre-registration students and staff as required, including induction and preceptorship programs
- To provide skilled clinical nursing practices
Communication
- Develop and maintain effective communication networks with service users, health care professionals, and other statutory and voluntary organizations.
- To promote and maintain accurate record keeping in order to conform to NMC policy and data protection
Responsibility for patient care
- To action referrals appropriately according to risk and need in accordance with the service referral criteria
- To undertake planned and opportunistic health promotion and education activities with patients and carers
- Act as a patient’s advocate where appropriate.
Policy and Service Development
- Understanding national policy and guidance and the ability to interpret and implement at the service level
Responsibility for Human Resources
- Direct supervision of junior members of staff
- Act independently on a range of delegated tasks and use one’s own initiative in order to manage one’s own workload within appropriate professional guidelines
- Participate in the PDR process to identify personal and team development goals.
- Able to organize staff in the absence of the senior nurse (Band 6), reporting to a senior member of staff any anomalies
Professional Responsibilities and Freedom to Act
- Interpret national guidance on NMC guidelines
- Participate in clinical supervision
- Maintain clinical and professional competencies in accordance with relevant statutory legislation and guidance relevant to health professionals and their services
- To participate in mandatory and statutory training requirements and keep a record of all training and other developmental activities
Responsibility for Research & Development
- Ensure standards, protocols, and policies are evidence-based and applied to practice.
- Keep updated with current clinical issues, thus always promoting best practice.
- Use research to inform practice.
- Participate in audits as appropriate.
General
- The postholder will be required to have access to independent means of transport for work purposes to travel across SWFT and to other agencies.
Physical and Mental Effort
- The post holder will undertake people moving and handling on a daily basis. The handling of equipment, e.g. hoists, is integral to the post and may be required to be undertaken in confined spaces within patients’ homes.
- The post holder will be required to operate as a lone worker in accordance with WCH policies and procedures
- The post holder may come into contact with bodily fluids, including urine and feces, and exudate from wounds, e.g., blood and pus
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