Overview

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.

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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.

 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to work long days, nights and weekends to ensure the service has a 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 in 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.

 

About us

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 listening and considering 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.

 

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential

  • Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care Practice (FdSc) NVQ level 3 in Care NVQ A1 Assessors Course and Mentorship training.

Desirable

  • AI NVQ Assessor.

 

Previous Experience

Essential

  • Previous experience in health care undertaking a full range of clinical competencies to NVQ Level 3.
  • Experience with Dementia care.

Desirable

  • Experience in Dementia, mental health, and leadership experience.

 

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding.
  • Ability to liaise with all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
  • Ability to work on own initiative within protocols and remit of role, with minimal direction by a registered practitioner.
  • Ability to undertake basic aspects of assessment, planning evaluation and delivery of care. Assessment skills and ability to problem solve.
  • Ability to prioritise care and organise workload. Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.
  • Understanding of quality and change in the clinical setting.
  • Flexibility and team participation.
  • Basic IT skills.
  • Committed to delivering high standards of patient care.

Desirable

  • Mentorship skills, leadership skills, E Roster Skills, Appraisal skills.

 

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of the requirements of the role of Associate Practitioner in the context of the Team and the Organisation.
  • Provide evidence of managing continuing personal development and being proactive in the development of self and others.
  • Risk management and Infection Control Knowledge of clinical observation.
  • Understanding of NHS issues.

Desirable

  • Experience in supervising, training and developing clinical support workers.

 

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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