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SalaryThe post holder will be responsible for the delivery of the clinical pathway. Assess health needs of individual patients and provide care to meet these needs through a process of shared decision making. Accept referrals to agreed criteria and work in partnership with other professionals to deliver co-ordinated programmes of care effectively and referring patients to other practitioners as required. Deliver expert clinical care to patients in agreed practice settings, working as part of nursing/multidisciplinary teams.
Communicate with patients in ways that empower them to make informed choices about their health and health care. Provide appropriate education to patients and their families to promote health and encourage self-care. Use communication skills to impart information to patients and carers and provide them with advice and emotional support as appropriate. Maintain adequate patient documentation to up-load onto the Fracture Liaison Service Database.
Be involved with developing standards of care, practice guidelines and where appropriate Care Pathways for the patient/client group. Demonstrate and share clinical practice developments to provide evidence-based care and contribute to service improvement in accordance with local policy initiatives. Contribute appropriately to clinical governance activities that relate to own area of practice and patient/client group. Support clinical and management teams in the delivery of Trust and Clinical Service Unit objectives.
Effective prioritisation of workload and time management when lone working or as part of team. 3. ORGANISATIONAL CHART 4. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY Acts in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct Clinical Clinical care delivery Provide a clinical lead and role model to nursing staff by delivering high quality care.
Undertakes clinical procedures where dexterity and accuracy are required. Maintain a safe working environment Responsibilities for patient and client care - Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates care and treatments using specialist clinical knowledge and skills. Organises own clinical workload. Receives supervision of clinical care and outcomes from Team Leader.
Freedom to act - Refer patients as appropriate to other members of the multi-disciplinary team - Make clinical assessments and treatment decisions within clearly defined policies and protocols Communication - Maintains accurate clinical and other records using the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trusts documentation. - Support patients and their families communicating sensitive condition related information and ensuring they receive required information to enable them to participate in their care delivery - Liaise with Community Services (as appropriate) to ensure seamless provision of care delivery Education and Training - Provide training and education of learners and other junior staff - Actively participate in the development of own personal development plan and performance review - Provide education and training to patients and their carers. - Keep up to date with developments, advances within the specialty - Leadership and management - Investigate and respond to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events - Work with Team Leader to promote the development of nurses as appropriate - Under the direction of Team Leader participates in or leads the development of specific elements of nursing practice, reflecting the CMT and Nursing Directorate business plans - Participates in the setting, monitoring and improvement of standards and the quality of patient care, including those standards defined in the National Benchmarks for Essential Care - Promote evidence-based practice, wherever possible - Engages users and carers views on service delivery and development - Implement policy and practice guidelines specific to the clinical specialty, proposing changes where appropriate - Contribute to policy and protocol development for speciality area - Exercises a personal duty of care in relation to equipment, resource and stock control utilising equipment and supplies appropriately. Research and Audit - Contribute to the research agenda - Undertake audit programmes specific to client group, treatments and developments.
- Participate in clinical trials as appropriate. 5. THE LEEDS WAY VALUES Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work.
By working for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change. WYAAT is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country. The Partnerships ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that ambition. 7.
INFECTION CONTROL The jobholder must comply at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Infection Control policies, in particular by practising Universal Infection Control Precautions. Hand hygiene must be performed before and after contact with patients and their environment. 8. HEALTH AND SAFETY / RISK MANAGEMENT All staff are responsible for working with their colleagues to maintain and improve the quality of services provided to our patients and other service users.
This includes complying at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Policies, including Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed security and safer working procedures, and reporting incidents using the Trust Incident Reporting system 9. EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY The jobholder must comply with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment and that services are delivered in ways that meet the individual needs of patients and their families. No person whether they are staff, patient or visitor should receive less favourable treatment because of their gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc. 10.
TRAINING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT The jobholder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for his/her own personal development by ensuring that Continuous Professional Development remains a priority. The jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role. 11. COMMUNICATION & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS Matron All grades nursing staff Allied Health Professionals Medical staff Members of Clinical Management Team Primary Care Trusts 12.
SPECIAL WORKING CONDITIONS i) PHYSICAL EFFORT There is a frequent requirement for job holder to spend a substantial proportion of their working time sitting or standing in a restricted position and an occasional requirement to exert moderate physical effort. ii) MENTAL EFFORT There is a frequent requirement for the job holder to concentrate where their work pattern may be unpredictable. iii) EMOTIONAL EFFORT The nature of the clinical and none clinical duties will require the job holder to be involved in distressing or emotional circumstances on a frequent basis. iv) WORKING CONDITIONS The nature of the clinical and none clinical duties will require the job holder to be involved in occasional exposure to unpleasant or highly unpleasant working conditions.
