Job responsibilities
Title:Children's Health Promotion Nurse or Health Visitor
Responsible to:Service Manager
Accountable to:Professionally and clinically accountable to clinical leads of Sparkbrook Children's Zone
Job summary
Supporting outreach activities within schools and community venues, including giving opportunistic vaccinations. Running well child clinics, measuring height/weight, recording smoke exposure, healthy start vitamin use, feeding concerns, dental caries, bottle/dummy use beyond 1y of age, concordance with long term condition medications, vaccination status. You will have control and influence on non-core hours.
This post would be suitable for childrens nurse or health visitor.
Key responsibilities
- To be responsible for the unsupervised implementation of well child checks and provision of support for problems identified.
- To provide efficient, effective and evidence-based nursing care to children and young people within the community clinic setting.
- To be competent in the recognition of common life threatening emergencies in children and be able to provide basic life support (PILS or equivalent) in the community setting while waiting for an ambulance.
- To adhere to child protection policies and guidelines.
- To maintain accurate and comprehensive nursing records, using appropriate documentation and Nursing Information System, and ensure their confidentiality and safe keeping in accordance with the NMC and trust guidelines.
- To be competent in storage and administration of routine childhood vaccinations, including flu vaccines, according to The Green Book and RCN policy and procedures.
- To organise workload in line with clinical priorities and local community opportunities.
- To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team alongside the project Family Support Advisor, Community Connector, Programme Manager and other medical staff.
- Connect with and liaise with other mostly health professionals to support cross referrals and wider case management as needed.
Please note this post is subject to a disclosure barring service (DBS) check
Experience
Essential Criteria:
- Post registration experience working in an acute hospital setting
Personal Attributes
Essential Criteria:
- Ability to plan and prioritise workload
- Proven communication skills including jargon-free and simple explanations of medical concepts and ability to negotiate
- Ability to work well within a team
- Ability to take part in change and service improvement
- To maintain a safe clinical environment conductive to patient care
- Independently mobile with ability to travel to fulfil work commitments
Digital
1. Adhere to practice policies and protocols relating to I.T
2. Ensuring personal passwords for computer are safe
3. Adhere to practice policies relating to social media
4. Checking patients details when conducting digital consultations ensuring you are speaking to the patient and not a third party
5. Adhering to policies and procedures when conducting digital consultations
Health & Safety
- Assist in promoting and maintaining own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy to include
- Responsible for the correct and safe management of the specimens process including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
- Assist in promoting and maintaining own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice policies
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
- Reporting potential risks identified
- Understand and apply the principles of the cold chain
- Ensure safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs within the area of responsibility
- Know the general principles of first aid and resuscitation to be able to undertake initial actions as appropriate
- Be aware of statutory child health procedures
- It will be the post holders responsibility to assess the effort and environment of the task being undertaken for example: If the post holder is undertaking a leg ulcer clinic they will need to assess what is manageable for them, with bending to get to the legs, lifting legs, etc. The post holder will work in accordance with the organisations manual handling policy.
Communication
Recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and strive to:
1. Communicate effectively with primary care team members
2. Communicate effectively with patients and carers
3. Act as an advocate when representing patients
4. Ensure good working relationships and communication with all staff
5. Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
6. Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating and responding accordingly
7. Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication
8. Ensure clear, concise accurate and legible records
9. The post holder will play a pivotal role in primary prevention as health educators promoting lifestyle advice, facilitating health access for diverse groups and putting in place reasonable adjustments, from longer appointment times to organising interpreters
Delivering a quality service
Strive to maintain quality within the service, including:
- Apply local policies, standards and guidance
- Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
- Participate in audit where appropriate
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patient needs
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
- Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the practice
- Evaluate the patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care
- Support and participate in shared learning across the service
- Participate in the management and review of patient complaints, and identify learning from clinical incidents and near-miss events using a structured framework (e.g. root-cause analysis)
- Understand and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedure and local guidance
Learning and development
- Participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:
- Participate in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
- Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
- Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate using reflective practice
- Make effective use of learning opportunities within and outside the workplace, evaluating their effectiveness and feeding back relevant information
- Ensure continual professional development is undertaken and evidence maintained
- Ensure a copy of all continual professional development certificates are sent to HR
Equality and diversity
Support the equality, diversity and rights of the patient, carers and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies and current legislation
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights
- Support people who need assistance in exercising their rights by being their advocate
- Act as a role model in the observance of equality and diversity good practice
- Accept the rights of individuals to choose their care providers, participate in care and refuse care
Mobility
The post holder will have a clean driving license and access to a car, as they may be required to work across clinics in different locations.
The Job Description will be subject to periodic review and amendment in consultation with the post-holder.
