Clinical Lead

Salary: £25.2 per hour

Would you love to work in a fantastic nursing home designed to care for individual’s needs? If so, then this is the role for you. A nursing home in Huddersfield is looking for a Clinical Lead. The home has a generous interior with various lounges and a lovely garden where the total well-being of each one of the residents is the top priority.

This is a great opportunity for a Clinical Lead who is passionate about person-centred elderly care and is looking to work for a nursing home that cares for people with neurodegenerative and mental health needs. The nursing home has around 46 beds. It is ideal for long-term accommodation and maintains a friendly atmosphere for residents and staff.

About the role

Responsible for the implementation of high standards of evidence-based nursing care to work with the nurses and care staff to enable the development of a team fit for purpose to deliver a quality effective and responsive service to meet the needs of service users. To supervise, monitor and evaluate care delivered to service users, ensuring legal requirements are met.

Will have the overall responsibility of the welfare of the home’s service users.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES: Clinical Support and Professional Leadership.

• Provide clinical leadership to nurses in the implementation of nursing provision.

• Provide support and advice to the Nursing team.

• Identify sources of specialist support and expertise where required to support the Nurses in delivering care to individual service users.

• Act as an advisor regarding clinical issues and the implementation of guidelines and standards.

• Ensure that all Nurses (including self) have the clinical skills and competencies to deliver high quality evidence-based care. Legal, Ethical and Professional Standards

• Acts at all times within NMC Code of Conduct.

• Maintain a current NMC registration.

• Be able to meet the criteria for Revalidation, maintaining a professional profile in accordance with NMC guidelines.

• Ensures that all Registered nurses work within a framework where Consent, accountability, duty of care, vicarious liability, record keeping, and use of clinical guidelines and protocols are maintained.

• Reports unsafe, unethical practice to the Manager of the home in the first instance and to others as appropriate.

· Takes responsibility for the medication policy and procedure within the home

Communication:

• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including competency in the use of IT equipment and systems.

• Facilitate regular meetings with nurses to inform and update them on clinical and quality issues.

• Develop key worker and mentor relationships.

• Attend ‘best practice’ events and disseminate information.

• Establish and maintain effective means of communication and good relationships with service users, relatives, employees and other professionals.

· Assist as required in the planning of duty rotas.

· Assist in the recruitment of staff as necessary

· Report and investigate complaints/untoward incidents.

· Maintain an awareness of the need for good housekeeping, helping to ensure that expenditure is within budgetary limits.

Assessment and Care Planning

• Undertake assessments of new residents and ensure that a preadmission assessment is completed prior to admission of new residents.

• Ensure that all Nurses use Evidence based assessment tools and they are completed accurately within 24 hours of a new admission and are evaluated monthly or more often as required.

• Complete care plans that are person entered with the Resident and relevant others.

• Liaise with other members of the Team, Health and Social care professionals to achieve the care planned and make appropriate referrals as required.

• Evaluate and reviews care plans with the resident and /or advocate and all staff involved regularly (minimum of monthly) or as required and update and document accordingly.

Privacy and Dignity

• Ensures that Privacy and dignity are maintained at all times, and that this is reflected in the individual care plans.

• Recognise the importance of a resident’s rights, acknowledging their beliefs, choices and preferences in relation to the way they wish to be supported with their care.

• Creates an environment where age, religion, gender, ethnicity and sexual diversity are accepted, respected and accommodated.

• Identifies and actions when equality and diversity is undermined.

Training & Development:

• Ensure training and education provided meets the needs of nurses and reflects local and national objectives.

• Provide orientation and induction for newly appointed nurses.

• Participate in supervision and yearly appraisals.

• Support the Nurses using Supervision to identify any training that they need to undertake to be able to meet the criteria for Revalidation.

• Be involved in implementing and cascading recommendations from home inspections & audit reports (internal & external).

• Attend mandatory training days/courses, on or off site, as and when required Health & Safety and Governance

• Be aware of health and safety issues and actively promote good clinical and non-clinical working processes.

• Ensure staff understand and comply with statutory and legal requirements

• Throughout the home, including SFBB, COSHH, Health and Safety, Infection Control, Safeguarding, Mental capacity, Deprivation of Liberty and all aspects of the Care Act 2015.

• Identify actual and potential risks and take appropriate action.

• Ensure that staff maintain safe ways of working supporting others to maintain own and others health, safety and security consistent with legislation, and policies.

• Carry out and monitor audits and action as required to ensure compliance.

• Act on poor standards of care, report near misses, incidents and significant events.

• Assist as necessary with investigating complaints, compiling reports.

• Liaise with QCQ and Social Services as necessary. Safeguarding, Mental Capacity and Deprivation on Liberty

• Recognise signs and symptoms of adult abuse and neglect, reporting any suspected abuse working to local and national guidelines for Safeguarding Adults.

• Complete and send Safeguarding Alerter forms as required.

• Work within the Mental Capacity Act 200, highlighting any mental capacity concerns about individual service users.

• Be aware of the Deprivation of Liberty safeguard (DOLS) adhering to this at all times and where applicable completing a DOLS authorization as directed.

£25.2 ph – 36 hours per week

*must have a current NMC pin