Senior Staff Nurse

• Avoid unnecessary Presentations to Emergency Departments.
• Avoid unnecessary Hospital Admissions
• Improve patient wellbeing through timely responsive interventions
• Reduce admissions to residential care
• Increase the number of people who feel safe in their home

• Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all professional activities
• Demonstrate theoretical knowledge of acute, multiple, complex, and long-term pathologies and impairments in the assessment of clients
• Work closely with other health professionals and social services and provide nursingadvice in meeting the needs of the clients
• Conduct a thorough assessment of clients, obtaining consent in accordance withprofessional guidelines and local team procedures
• Recommend appropriate interventions to promote independence and safety, utilisingeffective clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice
• Complete a care plan for clients who require input from integrated community services (bed-based or home-based input)
• Maintain effective multidisciplinary communication with other members of the team and the wider clinical network to ensure that clients needs are met
• Provide specialist advice to client, carers and relatives based on clinical evidence when required
• Participate in MDT meetings and family conferences as required
• Maintain up-to-date clinical written records and computerised records in accordance with local and professional standards; and also writing comprehensive reports on clients as required and inputting onto RiO
• Ensure management of clinical risk with clients under their care
• Be able to identify when and how to terminate involvement or refer onwards to appropriate teams/services and complete input in a timely, seamless manner
• Seek guidance from more experienced colleagues when required
• Be professionally curious in terms of safeguarding adults and children and promote professional curiosity

• Utilise communication and teaching skills to educate the diverse and multiculturalpopulation in a range of disease specific techniques, principles and guidelines when required
• Provide support and take a proactive role in the education and training of undergraduate and graduate AHP students, nurses and rehabilitation assistants
• Maintain continuing professional development by participating in regular in-service training, supervision, reflective practice and attending study days and training, giving feedback to the team where appropriate to disseminate learning
• Maintain competency in manually handling people
• Maintain up-to-date mandatory and statutory training

• Maintain high level of efficiency and effectiveness in work area to utilise resources to thefull and report defects in equipment in a timely manner
• The ability to deputise in the absence of the Manager if required
• Coordinate staff activity to meet demands of service
• Ensure risk is managed for self, clients, colleagues and the work environment
• Participate in the development of the team by working proactively within the MDT
• Maintain throughput of casework and organise and prioritise own work tasks and activities,being flexible to the needs of the service
• Ensure all patient information is input onto RiO
• Ensure new team members are adequately introduced to the team during induction andproviding peer support
• Undertake a proactive role in the ongoing in-service training programme
• Maintain efficient day-to-day running of the service

• Flexibly plan and organise own time
• Achieve the effective daily management of a caseload of clients, including prioritising clinical work and balancing other client related and professional duties
• Provide statistical information as required in a timely manner
• Keep up-to-date statistics in accordance with team requirements
• Be responsible for any organisational tasks related to the post
• Be flexible in the undertaking of any other duties as requested by line managers to meetthe changing needs of the service
• Attend Team and trust meetings and case conferences as required

• Participate in regular supervision and reflective practice
• Participate in regular supervision and PDR
• Comply with professional guidelines, codes of conduct of practice, trust and departmentalpolicies
• Maintain links with the department, organisation and wider sector by attending meetings, seminars/case conferences etc as deemed appropriate

• Demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate current research and apply it to practice
• Broaden research and development skills through participation in local audit and researchprojects
• Instigate/Participate in Quality Improvement Projects

• Communicate relevant medical/social information, assessment details, advice andrecommendations across agencies following local and professional guidelines for sharinginformation and consent. This would include Consultants, GPs, Social Services, otherhealth care professionals and voluntary agencies
• Work in a co-ordinated, multi-disciplinary manner, communicating effectively with other team members and the wider clinical network involved in client care
• Convey complex and sensitive information relating to clients using skill in situations wherethere may be barriers to communication i.e. use of interpreters, receptive/cognitivepathologies or excess noise
• Be able to adapt complicated and sensitive information into a simplified form to clients whomay be seriously ill or have complex or long-term conditions
• Clearly convey complex information to small and large groups during training andeducation sessions
• Promote and encourage the ethos of rehabilitation/enabling with therapy assistants/support workers/carers/relatives through demonstration, example, and support
• Promote an awareness of the nurse role within the team, negotiating priorities were appropriate
• Actively contribute to service & policy review and implementation
• Participate in the operational planning, implementation, evaluation and audit of practice, clinical care pathways and protocols within own clinical area

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Essential

• Registered Adult Nurse
• Enhanced Clinical Assessment Skills (Level 6/7)
• Mentorship or Equivalent
• Intravenous Additive Qualification
• Long Term Conditions Management or equivalent