Senior Nurse (Community Diagnostic Centre)

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

The duties and responsibilities to be undertaken may include any or all the items in the following list. Duties may be varied from time to time under the direction of the Clinical Lead and / or Service Manager.

Lead the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care within the community diagnostic centre (CDC).

Perform and interpret spirometry in line with ARTP standards to support respiratory assessment and diagnosis.

Conduct FeNO testing, ECGs, blood pressure monitoring, and other diagnostic procedures in accordance with clinical guidelines.

Undertake phlebotomy, ensuring safe, accurate and timely collection of blood samples.

Identify, assess and manage patients with complex needs, escalating or referring appropriately.

Support with the development and review of clinical policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Supervise and mentor new clinical staff and students, providing evaluations, training and competency assessments to maintain high clinical and operational standards.

Maintain accurate, timely and high-quality clinical documentation.

Identify and promote best practice

Understand and continually make connections between patient experience, quality, safety and efficiency objectives to ensure the organisation delivers ambitious and sustainable improvement.

Stakeholder engagement

Develop excellent relationships with staff at all levels, colleagues, divisional clinical and management teams across primary and community care.

Business responsibilities:

Maintain ethos and culture of Nimbuscare

Positively promote Nimbuscare

Attend in-house governance, educational and staff meetings as appropriate.

To build and maintain relationships with other healthcare professionals.

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.

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 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.

Participate and support local projects as agreed with the management team.

Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence of those taking on delegated duties.

While seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health or other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.

Confidentiality

In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, you may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Nimbuscare staff and other healthcare workers. You may also have access to information relating to Nimbuscare as an organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

Information relating to patients, 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.

Health & Safety:

You will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Nimbuscare Health & 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 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.

Quality:

The post-holder 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, either directly or under supervision.
• 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.
• Always be professional.

Communication:

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Other:

This job description is neither exhaustive nor exclusive and will be reviewed periodically. You are required to carry out any duties that may reasonably be requested by the Directors.

Other Requirements

Essential

• Flexibility to work outside core office hours
• Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
• Occupational Health clearance

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Strong IT skills
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• EMIS/SystmOne/Vision user skills
• Effective time management (planning and organising)
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure

Desirable

• Competent in the use of Office and Outlook

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Polite and confident
• Flexible and cooperative
• Motivated
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required, including audit/service improvement
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Ability to work under pressure/in stressful situations
• Able to communicate effectively and understand the needs of the patient
• Commitment to ongoing professional development
• Effectively utilise resources
• Punctual and committed to supporting the team effort

Experience

Desirable

• Experience of working in a primary care environment

Qualifications

Essential

• Current Professional Registration (NMC)
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
• Spirometry (ARTP) performance and interpretation
• ECG and Phlebotomy Competency

Clinical Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Recording ECGs 12 lead and 3 lead
• Venepuncture
• ARTP Spirometry performance and interpretation
• Supervise and mentor new staff and students

Desirable

• Interpretating ECGs
• Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).