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Responsibility for Patient Care 

·         Assist patients/service users/carers/relatives during incidental contacts.

·         Act as patient’s advocate in promoting, and delivering the highest standard of nursing care, ensuring all fundamentals of care are addressed in a dignified and respectful manner.

·         Ensure all current and relevant policies and procedures are adhered to.

·         Using evidence-based practice, assess patients' physical, psychological, and spiritual needs, create care plans, implement, and evaluate nursing care involving patients and carers, as appropriate. Where appropriate book patient to see anaesthetist if specific beliefs could impact on surgery, for example Jehovah’s witness.

·         Ensure patient’s nutrition and hydration needs are met.

·         Undertake and record full initial assessments as you are assessing patients.

·         Perform nursing care and enhanced clinical skills to a high-quality standard within your scope of practice, following NICE guidelines, national and local trust guidelines.

·         Monitor patients’ condition and report observations to relevant health professionals, carrying out nursing interventions as required, this could include sending your patient to ED if required.

·         Demonstrate safe storage of medications that are to be collected by patients and that prescriptions get to pharmacy in a timely manner.

·         Achieve and maintain core and specific competencies.

·         Report and record all untoward incidents and investigate any incidents, which occur when taking charge.

·         Contribute to the ward accreditation programme as required.

·         Supervise junior staff where required, this could also include completing their appraisals.

·         Manage your own caseload and prioritise to facilitate an efficient service.

·         As part of the pre op process ensure a senior colleague supports you with any concerns and performs a clinical assessment of heart and lungs on your patient, this is to be done while the patient is in the department to reduce cancellation and quality care for your patient.

Planning and organising

·         Organise and plan own day to day workload for activities to meet the demands of the job role.

·         Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team and other service providers internally and externally; ensure care is patient centred, effective and efficient.

·         Help to prevent the spread of infection by adopting infection control measures appropriate to the situation, and participate in educating staff, patients, and carers.

·         Carry out patient-based risk assessments, e.g., falls, nutrition, medication, infection control, pain in line with Trust policies and timescales.

·         Incorporate health education into patient/client and carer exchanges whenever possible. Referring patients on if required to Healthy hospitals for support with smoking cessation, weight management and alcohol consumption.

·         Carry out patient-based risk assessments and incorporate into plans of care.

·         Delegated duties are realistic, achievable and consider team member’s role, abilities, and development needs.

·         Actively contribute and participate in the ongoing development of the service.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.