Job responsibilities
The clinician is defined as a qualified, appropriately registered Health Care Practitioner. You will be a skilled Health Care Practitioner as defined above, with a relevant healthcare qualification and current registration.
Working within your professional boundaries, you will work autonomously, without immediate support and supervision, enabled by collaborative and supportive working relationships.
You will deliver safe, effective clinical decision-making and expert quality care, including assessment, diagnosis, clinical management and evaluation.
You will have the skills, knowledge and experience to deliver high quality holistic care and treatment.
You must work at all times within your own competence and professional Code of conduct of the Nursing and Midwifery Council NMC, Health & Care Professions Council HCPC.
Duties and Responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities to be undertaken may include any or all of the items in the following list. Duties may be varied from time to time under the direction of the Medical Director or Board of Directors, dependent on current and evolving workload
Clinical responsibilities
- Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment or interventions and care for patients
- Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly.
- The role will involve liaison with practice clinicians, as well as liaison with secondary care, social workers and voluntary sector staff, where appropriate, and making best use of third sector and other community opportunities for promotion of patient wellbeing and maintenance of mental health.
- Demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process.
- Manage patient risk effectively and safely, including high levels of complexity and uncertainty.
- Support the local implementation of national and local policy that impacts upon the health and wellbeing of patients such as the NHS England framework for community mental health.
- Utilise other clinical staff appropriately to ensure safe and effective patient care, demonstrating awareness of your own limitations.
- Provide safe, evidence-based and individualised patient care.
- Refer patients directly to other services or agencies as appropriate, utilising local guidelines and in a timely manner.
- Provide information and advice on prescribed and over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions.
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
- Improve clinical outcomes for patients by enabling them to function independently by increasing their choice to remain in their own home or community and reduce the need for or prevent inappropriate hospital admission.
- Establishing effective working relationships with patients, their families and carers including education and promoting individual rights, recognising and respecting their contributions to care planning, placing patient in the centre of their care. Referral on to the appropriate support, ie medical, mental health, physical health, third sector, well-being or social prescribing.
- Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy living and to apply principles of self-care.
Other responsibilities
- Recognise and work within own competence and in accordance with the professional Code of conduct of the NMC or HCPC.
- Maintain accurate and complete documentation and records utilising IT as appropriate.
- Follow agreed protocols, referring to GPs as appropriate
- Follow local and national Infection Control guidelines.
- Assist with the maintenance of equipment and report defective equipment.
- Take responsibility that any equipment either clinical or otherwise, used when working, is taken due care of and locked away at the end of every working session.
Safeguarding
Everyone within Nimbuscare has a responsibility for, and is committed to, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Adults-at-risk, children and young people and for ensuring that they are protected from harm.
Be fully aware of and understand your duties and responsibilities arising from the Childrens Act 2004 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018, in relation to child protection and safeguarding children and young people
Be fully aware of and understand your duties and responsibilities arising from the DOH Policy No Secrets 2000, and the principles of safeguarding as they apply to Adults-at-risk in relation to your work.
Recognise the types and signs of abuse and neglect.
Ensure the Nimbuscare Safeguarding Lead is alerted to, and kept fully informed of, any concerns you may have in relation to safeguarding adults, children and young people.
Adhere to Nimbuscare and local Child Protection and Safeguarding Adult policies and procedures.
Learning and development
You will participate in any training programme implemented by Nimbuscare as part of this employment, such training to include
- Participation in individual performance reviews, including maintaining a record of own personal and or professional development.
- Working in conjunction with senior management, assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.
- Develop and utilise a written Personal Development Plan.
- Make effective use of learning opportunities within and outside the workplace, evaluating their effectiveness and feeding back relevant information.
- Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments.
- Undertake mandatory and statutory training as required.
Team working
- Understand own role and scope in the organisation and identify how this may develop over time.
- Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working.
- Accept delegation from senior staff, prioritise own workload and ensure effective time management strategies are embedded in own practice.
- Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care.
- 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.
- Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence of those taking on delegated duties.
Confidentiality
- In the course of seeking treatment, customers entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
- In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, you may have access to confidential information relating to customers and their carers, Nimbuscare staff and other healthcare workers. You may also have access to information relating to Nimbuscare as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
- Information relating to customers, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of Nimbuscare may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with Nimbuscare policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
- Be aware of your responsibilities under the General Data Protection Regulations GDPR.
Health & Safety:
You will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Nimbuscare Health and Safety Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to guidelines
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
- Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
- Reporting potential risks identified.
Equality and Diversity
You will support the equality, diversity and rights of customers, 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 Nimbuscare procedures and policies, and current legislation.
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of customers, 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.
Quality
You will strive to maintain quality within Nimbuscare, and will
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
- Work within own limitations and experience.
- Be aware of and co-operate with audit.
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
- Portray a professional image at all times.
Communication
You should recognise the importance of effective communication and will strive to
- Communicate effectively with other team members,customers and carers.
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
