MAIN PURPOSE
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To improve the lives of people with acquired brain injury by minimising the impact of their condition through effective clinical leadership to promote recovery and wellbeing for all service users.
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To assist the Ward Manager in leading, co-ordinating, and supervising a dedicated team to ensure the delivery of a high standard of nursing care.
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To manage the direct patient care whilst modelling appropriate clinical behaviours to other staff
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To promote and monitor safe and effective practice
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To enhance the service user experience
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To contribute to the delivery of the organisations objectives.
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
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To provide clinical leadership on a daily basis ensuring that exceptional standards of care are adhered to all times, by acting as a positive role model and ensuring that best practice guidelines are followed.
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Assisting in the effective assessment, admission and discharge planning with service user’s care team.
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Establish systems and processes to ensure effective communication and continuity of service user care liaising with inter-disciplinary teams.
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Empower and enable staff to contribute to the delivery of high quality person-centred care.
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Promote and facilitate a learning culture within the ward and a culture of reflective practice for all staff.
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Establish highest care standards to meet or exceed current standards as well as ensuring that risk management strategies are in place.
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Responsible for ensuring that all staff recognise the potential for or signs of service user harm, abuse and neglect, including poor clinical practice, report all such occurrences and take all responsible steps to protect the service user. Responsible for ensuring that all staff identify and report concerns regarding safeguarding of all those who may be at risk.
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Involvement in staff recruitment and retention.
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Support the induction of new staff and take on the role of mentor (where applicable) for students and newly qualified staff.
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Promote the health and wellbeing of staff and note any signs of ill health or stress factors and take appropriate action in line with company policies.
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Promote effective confidential communication with service users, relatives families, carers and colleagues (including external personnel) providing information and support to in decision-making and advocate on the service users behalf.
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Adhere to organisational and NMC guidelines for practice requirements and standards such as the safe handling, administration, storage of all medication.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Two years’ experience of working as a Staff Nurse within a Neurobehavioural setting.
Knowledge of NMC standards
Evidence of CPD since qualification