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Job role: Registered Nurse
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: B0175-25-0014
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About the Job:
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical
- To be a safe practitioner and work within the NMC Code of professional standards of practice and behaviour.
- Provide holistic assessment of patients and families care needs, plan interventions required and ensure those interventions are actioned and their effectiveness evaluated.
- To communicate effectively with patients and families, ensuring they are actively involved with their own care planning.
- To support patients and families through grief and loss and the life changing consequences of a palliative diagnosis.
- To liaise with appropriate members of the multi-professional team (internal and external to the organisation) in order to ensure co-ordination and continuity of care on discharge and a smooth transition between different care settings.
- To maintain clear, accurate and legible patient documentation.
- To work across the 24-hour service, including weekends, nights and bank holidays as required. Education
- To supervise and support junior colleagues, volunteers and students working on the IPU.
- To actively participate in ward meetings and ensure that accurate information is fed back to the appropriate members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- To take responsibility for own ongoing education and professional development plan.
- To support and participate in the education and development of colleagues.
- To be involved in the training programme of professional visitors/learners where appropriate.
- To mentor new staff members and students. Management
- To act as a role model for all colleagues, providing encouragement and motivation to achieve goals for the service.
- To take charge of a shift, maintaining high standards of care escalating issues as required.
- To take responsibility for the care of their allocated patients.
- To maintain a safe environment for those within the IPU.
- To be aware of cost implications and make effective use of resources.
- To apply evidence-based practice in their own nursing care and to encourage colleagues to do the same.
- To work within other clinical areas within the Hospice as required.
- To actively participate in multidisciplinary team meetings and ensure that accurate information is shared with IPU team. Quality
- To actively participate in, quality improvement, clinical audit, and research as a means of monitoring and improving standards of care.
- To take responsibility for a link nurse role on the IPU e.g., tissue viability, infection control etc.
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