Job responsibilities

*To work as part of the Complex Health Team (CHT) to provide high standards of effective health care for people accessing the service and / or in receipt of Continuing Healthcare funding.

*To act as a named worker to those allocated to you, and a member of the CHT, in leading and supporting the development of an inter-disciplinary approach to care, within both the supported living services and with outreach service users living in the community. Co-ordinating their care, facilitating the development, and delivery, of support plans, and annual reviews.

*To monitor and review packages of care as appropriate in line with annual reviews, or as required.

*To monitor and support complex healthcare packages that are responsive to changing health needs.

*To care plan develop/implement/evaluate programmes of care and carry out nursing procedures.

*Provides direct nursing care for patient/clients to achieve best health outcomes.

*Ensures use of nursing knowledge and skills to implement and evaluate patients/clients/family/ health needs as well as actively promote health and wellbeing.

*Evaluate clinical outcomes and reports variance to clinical pathway, protocols, guidelines.

*To direct complex inter-disciplinary team responses e.g. health action planning. This may include the involvement of outside agencies.

*Contributes to effective discharge planning and/or referral processes to health care providers and support agencies to meet identified health needs.

Qualifications

Essential

• *Registered Nurse, ideally RNLD, but RN or RMN will also be considered, registered with NMC.
• *Practice assessor/supervisor.

Desirable

• *Teaching Qualification

Experience

Essential

• *Experience of working with People with a learning disability, within a variety of settings.
• *Experienced in developing care plans.
• *Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients.
• *Experience of MDT working.
• *Experience of teaching, training and / or supervision.
• *Evidence of recent CPD.
• *Evidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resources.
• Skills
• *Clinically competent at Band 5 level
• *Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• *Ability to prioritise workload and work autonomously, instruct and direct others; work is managed, not supervised
• *Problem solving skills
• *Patient Advocacy skills
• *Teaching, supervision and assessing skills
• *Using judgement when patients' monitoring condition/progress
• *Ability to work as part of a team and support development of others
• *Ability to adapt to changes in the work situation

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Skills
• *Clinically competent at Band 5 level
• *Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• *Ability to prioritise workload and work autonomously, instruct and direct others; work is managed, not supervised
• *Problem solving skills
• *Patient Advocacy skills
• *Teaching, supervision and assessing skills
• *Using judgement when patients' monitoring condition/progress
• *Ability to work as part of a team and support development of others
• *Ability to adapt to changes in the work situation
• Knowledge
• *Understanding of the health needs of people in their care and health promotion
• *Understanding of a range of clinical approaches
• *Awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area
• *Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
• Our service users have identified these as the 'key strengths of a good health and care worker':
• -Everybody is different so please be flexible. A person-centred approach is very important.
• -Involve us in decision-making whenever you can.
• -Be kind, empathetic, patient and polite.
• -Be punctual, let us know if you are going to be late.
• -Find out what our communication and sensory needs are and take these into account when you are working with us.
• -Keep us informed of any actions you are taking and any delays.
• -Take time to build a relationship with us, build a good rapport where you can.
• Other
• *Ability to travel for meetings across a range of sites as required.
• *For posts which require a professional registration, postholders hold a valid up to date registration with their professional body.
• *For posts where postholders are required to drive as part of their role they hold a valid full driving licence which enables them to drive in the UK.

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).