Site: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital
Town: Margate
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
* Communicate effectively with patients and their relatives, ensuring accurate and seamless information is conveyed and documented.
* Assist in the maintenance and monitoring of agreed standards, ensuring that any shortfall is brought to the attention of the Line Manager.
* Ensure that all quality initiatives within the Ward environment are adhered to and that the highest standards of care are maintained at all times.
* Assist in the development of clinical protocols ensuring that these are reviewed in accordance with the needs of the service in conjunction with the Ward/Unit Manager.
* Ensure that accurate and legible patient records are kept in line with professional and legal requirements.
* Promote and maintain effective working relationships and communications with consultants, medical staff, nurse colleagues and other multi-agency staff.
Main duties of the job
* Working as a registered professional, adhering to the NMC code of conduct & implementing plans of care to ensure that patient’s physical, social and psychological needs are met.
* Act as the identified Nurse for acutely ill patients by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating their care.
* Demonstrate leadership in progression of the patient pathway.
* Act as the patients’ advocate.
* Liaise with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
* Be clinically competent in all areas of advanced practice relevant to the post.
* Work to eliminate all avoidable infection by acting as a role model in infection prevention and control prevention to all staff, visitors and patients.
* Minimise risk of harm to patients, staff and visitors by working according to risk management policies.
* Participate in the orientation of new staff to their duties and the ward routine.
* Work to eliminate avoidable infection by working according to infection control policies.
* Demonstrate consistent high standard of hand hygiene practice and promote standards to staff, visitors and patients.
* Promote patient independence as much as possible.
* To undertake clinical skills, ensuring procedures are explained to patients in order to gain informed consent and involvement in care decisions, including responsible for admission and discharge procedures including the correct handling of patient’s property.
Working for our organisation
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Person specification
Qualifications, Experience & Skills
* NMC Registered nursing associate
* Nurse Associate or Assistant Practitioner Qualification
Experience
* Demonstrates an insight to the Scope of the Nursing Associate role as part of the multi-disciplinary team and Trust and how role will contribute to the development of our services.
* Experience of providing patient care, carrying out tests/observations.
* Experience within an acute setting.
Governance
* Understanding of patient confidentiality, governance regulations and trust’s policy surrounding this.
The ability to converse easily and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for all customer-facing roles.
Most positions require a Disclosure and Barring check and will be exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Posts working regularly or unsupervised with children or vulnerable adults require an enhanced check.
We operate a no-smoking policy on all our sites and grounds.
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