Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Aintree
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/11/2024 23:59
Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity to join our Integrated Heart Failure Service at Liverpool University Hospital Foundation NHS Trust to support the heart failure virtual ward (9-5, 7 days a week). We are seeking a highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. The successful candidate will be responsible for the delivery of intravenous diuretics in the patient's home to enable hospital avoidance.
The candidate will be required to work closely with and communicate within the heart failure MDT. We require an autonomous practitioner who can undertake clinical examination and assessment. They will require consideration of skills to provide patient education, support to reduce symptoms and prevent unnecessary hospital admission/re-admission, and maximize the patient's quality of life.
The service operates between community, hospital ambulatory heart failure unit, and the patient's home.
The role requires flexibility and awareness of heart failure, working within an evolving proactive, dynamic, and committed multi-disciplinary heart failure team.
Main duties of the job
Main duties:
• Reconstitution of intravenous medication
• Administration of intravenous medication using elastomeric pump
• Care and maintenance of vascular access devices
• Peripheral cannulation
• Performing point of care blood tests
• Checking daily weight and assessing if leg swelling has reduced and symptoms improved
• Signposting/referring to other community or acute services
• Ordering/taking/reviewing blood samples
• Communication within the MDT and outside organisations
• Stock/consumable management
• Manage and organise referrals
• Input to service databases
Working for our organisation
Values and Behaviours:
We are Caring:
• We are kind to each other and always show compassion to ourselves and others.
• We know we are doing this when we are always kind and compassionate to ourselves, our patients, families, and colleagues;
• We recognize and appreciate each other, taking pride in working here and our contribution to success;
• We are professional and always seek to deliver the best standards of care.
We are Fair:
• We treat people equitably and value their differences.
• We know we are doing this when we value everyone for their unique contribution and we embrace diversity;
• We are confident in speaking up and we support all our colleagues to do the same;
• We are open and honest.
We Are Innovative:
• We work as a team to continuously improve the way we deliver and transform health care.
• We know we are doing this when we continuously improve the services we deliver and pioneer new ways of doing things;
• We learn from mistakes, striving to ensure we get things right first time;
• We create and share knowledge with each other, patients, and our professional communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Practice:
• Perform specialist assessment of patients' care needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery using clinical knowledge and clinical skills.
• To provide emotional and psychological support to patients and their carers.
• Perform point of care bloods, review and interpret results and escalate concerns.
• To be a specialist in the clinical procedure of peripheral venous cannulation.
• To practice at an advanced level when managing intravenous treatments & VADs.
• If appropriately qualified as a Nurse Independent Prescriber, prescribe for patients safely & effectively.
• To identify opportunities and provide health education and promotion for all patients and their carers.
• To identify opportunities to promote informed choice and control for patients. Support patients and their families and ensure that they receive the required information to enable them to self-manage, lead or participate in their care delivery.
• To maintain accurate and legible patient records in accordance with Trust policy and nursing and midwifery council (NMC) guidelines.
• To be aware of the limitations of own knowledge, skills, and competencies.
• Recognize changes in patients' condition that require the intervention of others and refer on as appropriate.
• To support, assist, and encourage the multi-disciplinary team in resolving patient problems, by the provision of new and innovative models of case management.
• To work within the NMC’s Scope of Professional Conduct.
• Deliver training to patients/carers, medical and nursing staff in hospital and community settings regarding IV therapy and IV access.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-registration specialist qualification relevant to specialty or equivalent
* Recognised Teaching Qualification
* First Degree
Experience
* Clinical experience
* Evidence of the application of management/leadership skills
* Experience as Specialist Sister
Knowledge
* In specialist knowledge
* Teaching/assessment skills
* Organisation and negotiation skills
* Ability to motivate self and others
* Evidence of audit and change management ability
* Evidence of leading and facilitating change
Skills
* Evidence of continued professional development
* Diplomatic
* Assertive and confident
* Personal and professional maturity
* Recognition of own limitations
* Ability to work both on own initiative and within a team
* Flexibility
* Able to travel between sites
* Venepuncture and cannulation skills
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
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