Job responsibilities
Job Description
1. JOB DETAILS
Job Title: Registered Nurse
Band: 5
Location: Searle House, Exeter EX2 5JJ
Team/Directorate: Rapid Response team
Responsible To: Exeter Community Team Leader
Responsible For: N/A
Accountable to: Head of Community and Supportive Care Services
2. JOB PURPOSE
To deliver an excellent standard of evidence
based specialist palliative nursing care and clinical advice.
To promote dignity, encompassing a person
centred approach, to positively enhance the lives of patients with complex life
limiting illnesses.
3. KEY RESULT AREAS/PRINCIPAL
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
3.1
Main Responsibilities
Contribute to the assessment and review of
patients, prioritising needs and working as a member of the Community team to
ensure effective communication is in place to support patient care.
Develop advanced communication skills and
professionalism in your interactions with patients and those close to them, carers
and other professionals in order to promote and maintain Hospiscare values.
Attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary,
complex care and Gold Standards Framework (GSF) or End of Life meetings to
promote best practice.
Develop knowledge and skills to be able to
contribute in the delivery of education and learning for all those involved in
palliative/end of life care, in order to act as a resource to wider
professional and care teams both internally and externally.
Contribute to Hospiscares clinical governance and
audit process in order to support continuing quality improvement and learning.
Develop advanced skills in identifying and
assessing complex bereavement and communicate effectively with the Supportive Care
team in order to enable a seamless handover into Hospiscares Bereavement Care
Services.
Co-ordinate junior colleagues and take
responsibility for the team in the absence of the CCTL or senior practitioner to
ensure continuity of service and welfare of patients.
Facilitate the planning and implementation of the
safe transfer of care to other health and social care providers
Infection
Prevention and Control
Maintaining a safe environment for patients, visitors and employees is
everyones responsibility. All staff are
required to adhere to Hospiscares Infection Prevention and Control Policy and
make every effort to maintain high standards of infection prevention and
control at all times. This includes
ensuring personal and team compliance with all relevant policies and
procedures, and acting upon or reporting any identified risks.
Disclosure and Barring Service
This role
requires a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced level check with
Adults and Children Barred Lists.
3.2
Key
Contacts
Internal:
Exeter Team leader
Community teams
Clinical
Co-ordination Centre (CCC)
IPU
team
Head of Community and Supportive Care
Services
Medical team
Supportive Care Services
Clinical
Governance
Clinical
Administration
Clinical
Quality and Learning & Development team
Student
Nurses and Trainees
External:
Patients and those close to them
Royal
Devon & Exeter Foundation Trust
NHS
Community Services
General
Practitioners
Residential
and Nursing Homes
Social
and Domiciliary Care Workers
Providers
of out-of-hours services
3.3 Health & Safety
Ensure that Health and Safety guidelines
and fire regulations are strictly adhered to
Comply with safe working practices as
defined by Hospiscare
Complete online training as and when
required
Take reasonable care for your own
health and safety and that of others who may be affected by acts or omissions
at work
Report any accidents, incidents or near
misses as soon as reasonably practicable
Manage own work life balance and
general wellbeing, including any relevant pressures in respect of lone working,
travel, difficult environments and challenging situations
3.4 General
Be aware of and adhere to Hospiscare
policies and procedures at all times
Take part in progress/performance
reviews throughout the year
Cooperate with other Hospiscare departments
Attend training courses and complete
online training modules as required to meet the requirements of the post
Take responsibility for own personal
development, seeking out opportunities to learn new skills
Undertake any other duties as requested
by management which are reasonably deemed to be within the scope of the role
3.5 Other
Apply the Hospiscare values and behaviours to every
aspect of the role at all times
Promote and maintain the brand standards of
Hospiscare
