Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Practitioner
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Job Description: Community Nurse
The role of Community Nurse is to work in partnership with service users in the designated care group with complex health presentations, developing their care plans and recovery plans to enable them to lead fulfilling lives. They will demonstrate an understanding of clinical interventions relevant to the care group to include education, care plans, and discharge planning, working closely with carers, families, and partner agencies to facilitate this. The post holder will work at all times to promote the safety and well-being of service users and their families/carers. The post holder will assess, plan, and implement care, and provide specialist nursing advice and carry out specialist nursing procedures. The post holder will provide support to core functions of the service such as triage and duty. They will provide clinical supervision to staff and students and act as a mentor for student nurses.
This post offers the Trust's £2,000 Golden Hello or Relocation Incentive for Band 6 Nurses & Practitioners, (pro rata and subject to terms and conditions; please see attached Protocol Document for full details).
Duties
The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner who will carry continuing responsibility for a defined caseload of service users by undertaking the following duties:
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- To undertake assessments of individuals and their families in the designated care group with complex health presentations, including those service users presenting with higher levels of risk. To develop alongside the service user their care plan.
- To offer specialist nursing assessment and advice where required.
- To assess and manage ongoing risks as identified during the assessment, ensuring that this is done in collaboration with the service user and carers. To regularly review risk factors and make changes to the management of them as necessary.
- To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Trust nursing strategy.
- To support core functions of the service such as triage and duty.
- To ensure that clinical practice is evidence-based and consistent with relevant NICE guidelines and Trust policies and procedures.
- To provide supervision of junior staff and trainees where appropriate. To act within the NMC code of conduct at all times.
- Abide by the standards of behaviour expected by their professional body and the standards of behaviour expected of all staff in the Trust disciplinary policy and procedure.
- Adhere to all Trust policies and procedures and are responsible for making themselves aware of these policies and procedures.
- Treat information relating to patient, employees, and businesses of the Trust in the strictest confidence. Under no circumstances should such information be discussed with any unauthorized person(s) or organizations. At all times employees are required to comply with the provisions of the Data Protection Act.
- Maintain their own awareness of, and comply with, policies and procedures relating to Health and Safety (whether statutory or Trust), and assist in ensuring the compliance of other staff.
- Support the Trust's vision and values and in particular the promotion of a positive approach to diversity, equality, rights, and treating others with dignity and respect; to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage in service delivery and to manage support and comply with the Trust Equality and Diversity Policy.
- Demonstrate the core principles of safeguarding and protection Human Rights; treating people with dignity, fairness, equality, respect, and autonomy.
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- Name: Terri Kelly
- Job title: Team Leader
- Email address: terri.kelly3@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 03003040243
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