Catheter Clinic Nurse
| Posting date: | 22 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | £29,970.00 to £36,483.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £29970.00 - £36483.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 November 2024 |
| Location: | Ilford, IG38XJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9395-24-2300 |
Summary
To be responsible for organising and prioritising own delegated workload. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register. To give holistic care to patients in the catheter clinics. To identify any changes in patient care needs or changes in physical or emotional and family / carer circumstances. To maintain accurate records electronically, record new problems as they are identified. To act as the patients advocate and, by providing information and support, facilitate the patients own choices with regard to personal care, promoting independence and self-care as appropriate. To be skilled in communication, establishing and maintaining good relationship with patients, carers, members of the Community Health and Social Care Team and otheragencies involved. To maintain, update and develop personal, professional knowledge and skills achievinghigh standards of patient care at all times. To maintain confidentiality at all times with patients and their records. To offer support and to teach patients, relatives and other carers appropriate skills, imparting knowledge to promote positive health. To have knowledge of and be able to effectively use available resources. To participate in the teaching and support of student nurses, new staff and nursingassistants. To undertake training, which will lead to new skills being developed, in order to developservices. To maintain accurate records and statistical returns as required by the Organisation,including entering data onto the Rio system within the required time frame. To attend and contribute to team and other relevant meetings. To report and document any incident or accident occurring to a patient or a member ofstaff. To identify, report and take appropriate actions to mitigate any risks. To be responsible for the care and safe keeping and efficient use of stock and equipmentissued and to report any defect or loss. Contribute to the effective and efficient use of resources by ensuring that supplies areavailable, alerting senior staff when supplies are short. To participate in Clinical Supervision on a regular basis with a designated person. To participate in self-appraisal and performance review. To maintain appropriate and up-to-date knowledge and skills and to undertakecontinuing education in accordance with personal and service needs within theframework of a Personal Development Plan (PDP). To be aware of and report any safeguarding issues and complete any documentation tosupport this. Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application. We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.