Job Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join our team on a part-time basis between 15 and 28 hours per week. We support a large number of young people aged between sixteen and thirty-six, with complex sensory, physical, and emotional needs, making our setting truly unique and rewarding. The role is based on so much more than clinical skills and offers a range of personal development.
The Nurse role plays an essential role within our onsite health team that works collaboratively with our care, education, and therapy teams. You will be responsible for promoting the health and wellbeing of our young people and delivering a high-quality health care service, with a positive focus on empowering our young people to self-advocate and self-manage their own health conditions. The role will require you to implement health initiatives and promote safe practice across the site.
We want someone who is enthusiastic and will advocate for the highest standard of care for our young people, using evidence-based practice. The successful person needs to have a passion for their own learning and development, with a desire to share their skills and experience to train our support staff to ensure the delivery of safe, person-centred health care.
Main Duties of the Job
Our person-centred service is designed to enable our young people to interact with their families, the local community, and also the InFocus Campus, enabling them to maximise their independence and live fulfilling lives.
1. To deliver high-quality health care provision at InFocus.
2. To deliver high-quality individual care for InFocus young people.
3. To implement and sustain high standards of education relating to the health agenda in relation to Personal, Social, and Health Education.
4. To provide regular training to InFocus staff on health care provision, first aid, infection control, and knowledge of specific conditions.
5. To assess the competence after training of enabler staff to administer medications.
6. To audit the safe administration of medications, supporting and advising enabler support staff and advising management of any issues that arise.
About Us
InFocus charity is dedicated to supporting young people with vision impairment and complex needs. Based in Exeter, we offer a range of education, care, therapy, and support services for those who need them most.
Our services cater to young people with all levels of vision impairment, multi-sensory impairment, and a wide range of complex needs.
If you're interested in joining our team, you'll be part of a community of approximately two hundred and fifty employees, led by CEO Jane Bell and an Executive Team of Directors. You'll work alongside colleagues from a range of disciplines, including classroom teaching, support workers, mobility and therapy, fundraising and marketing, and more.
We have an ambitious vision for our charity, and you will be joining a dynamic and growing organisation. We are expanding our services in the near future.
How We Say Thank You
Six weeks annual leave plus eight bank holidays pro-rata, occupational sick pay from day one, paid medical appointments, comprehensive training and development, enhanced paternity leave, onsite cafe, access to discounted shopping, on-site free parking, twenty-four-hour employee assistance programme, death in service life assurance and group accident cover, free flu vaccinations, cycle to work scheme, contributory pension scheme for eligible staff.
Job Responsibilities
1. Lead in health issues.
2. Improve standards in PSHE in collaboration with the teaching staff.
3. Assist those young people who are able to self-administer medication.
4. Ensure that health needs assessments, protocols, risk assessments, annual review reports, and health action plans are produced and implemented for all young people within agreed standards.
5. Improve and maintain high standards in the delivery of health care across the campus.
6. Work in collaboration with other members of the health team and the wider Health system to implement, monitor, and evaluate all factors of the National Healthy Schools Standard Every Child Matters.
7. Facilitate a forum to enable the learners to feedback on health care standards.
8. Recognise the signs of abuse and immediately report abuse or suspected abuse to the Safeguarding Team and record on InFocus IT system.
9. Contribute and implement School Health Plans in partnership with multidisciplinary teams.
10. Provide up-to-date information, advice, and support on health issues and medical treatments relating to specific conditions to other InFocus staff and young people.
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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