We are recruiting for a Enhanced Care Team Practitioner who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will be responsible for the support and management of the team in the absence of the Team manager, undertaking sickness
management, appraisals, assisting with training and ensuring staff competencies are completed and up to date. You will also provide support to patients who have confusion, mental health conditions, Dementia or Delirium and need 1-1 enhanced care and do all personal care for your patients, documentation, distraction therapies, activities, and encourage mobility.
We are looking for an individual who, has excellent communication skills, can work independently, works flexibly and can deal with challenging behaviour, in a pleasant and calm manner. Previous experience of working with Dementia and mental health patients is desirable.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
The post holder will be expected to work long days, nights and weekends to ensure the service has consistent senior cover.
Responsible for the leadership and management of the Enhanced care team.
Required to liaise with the senior site nurse and the Safer staffing team in the coordination and placement of the Enhanced care team to ensure patient safety on all wards.
Expected to provide support to patients who have confusion, Dementia or Delirium and need 1-1 enhanced care.
Required to assess and review patients on a shift by shift basis ensuring care plans are up to date and behavioural charts are completed.
Required to move around the hospital to provide care and support to the patients with the greater need. You will be expected to do all personal care for your patients, documentation, distraction therapies, activities, and encourage mobility.
Expected to manage the team out of hours, supporting the team to complete appraisals, training and sickness management.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Friday 6 Dec 2024