Community Staff Nurse
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £28,407 to £34,581 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £28407 - £34581 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2024 |
| Location: | Lowestoft, NR32 1DE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B9849-014-24B |
Summary
Contribute to, support, and promote ECCHs, strategic direction, values, and culture in relation to community health services. Discuss all treatment options with sensitivity, knowledge, and expertise. To act as a patient advocate when appropriate, respecting patient confidentiality with privacy and respect for diverse cultural backgrounds and requirements Act as a resource for other health and social care professionals on matters relating to community nursing. Participate in clinical supervision within Primary Care Home as required. Participate and maintain a learning environment and maximise opportunities for education and development in the clinical area. Develop excellent internal and external Network to promote Primary Care Home. Contribute to the clinical governance agenda through participation in clinical risk assessment and clinical audit. Contribute to an environment conducive to effective working, respecting, and supporting staff to deliver high quality clinical services. Contribute to change and innovation within Primary Care Home. Work as part of the multidisciplinary Primary Care Home to deliver planned and unplanned services. Work in collaboration with colleagues to contribute to the development of care pathways for patients requiring a range of healthcare needs. Work in partnership with senior members of the Primary Care Home to review the delegated caseload and ensure the care provided is of high quality. Work with patients towards self-care and independence utilising health coaching techniques Work collaboratively with residential care home colleagues to promote high standards of care. Contribute to the review of current policies/ protocols/guidelines and the development of clinical pathways and outcomes for people requiring proactive and reactive services. Plan and organise a range of complex clinical activities in a wide range of community settings to ensure best practice is delivered to patients in your delegated area of responsibility. Take responsibility for own personal and professional development; maintain competence, knowledge, and skills commensurate with role. Be wholly accountable for practice taking every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve knowledge and professional competence and, ensure all aspects of professional behaviour as required within professional code are always followed. Maintain legible, accurate and contemporaneous patient records in accordance with ECCH Policy and Nursing and Midwifery Council standards for record keeping Take responsibility to ensure compliance with Health and Safety Policy, Fire and Environmental Waste Regulations. Be responsible for understanding, following, and implementing ECCH policies and procedures. Ensure own compliance with ECCH risk management systems, proactively identifying risk, reporting, and managing risk within area of responsibility. Take responsibility for the cost-effective management and safe use of expensive clinical equipment, Contribute to the effective use of resources. Contribute to the evaluation of training programmes to support patients and carers gain the necessary knowledge and skills to maintain independence. All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our ABCD Commitments and Signature Behaviours in the care they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these behaviours, which are detailed in the pages below, an essential part of their job role. Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone. Underpinning our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture. Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.