Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

CLINICAL

• Manage the department environment, and be responsible for ensuring co-ordination and delivery of skilled, effective care and safe, timely discharge.
• Assess, prioritise, plan, implement and evaluate individualised patient care. Supervise others in the aforementioned functions.
• Ensure safe, timely discharge or transfer, of patient, to wards, other hospitals or care settings.
• Perform and ensure others perform patient observations such as blood pressure, pulse, respirations, oxygen saturations, early warning score, pain score, pressure score, peak expiratory flow, temperatures, and electrocardiographs.
• Provide follow up advice, treatment and care.
• Perform procedures such as wound closure (by suturing, tapes or medical glue), local anaesthetics, wound care, incision and drainage of small abscesses, nail removal, urinary catheterisations, trephine nails, venepuncture, and intra venous cannulation.
• Complete Investigations such as blood glucose measurement, ward test urine, blood gas analysis, pregnancy testing.
• Refer patients to other speciality doctors for an opinion or advice e.g. orthopaedic; surgical, mental health, plastics.
• Use current Emergency Department Patient Group Directions (Mid Yorkshire) to supply and administer medicines to patients without reference to a doctor.
• Recognise and advise on Child Protection issues and follow the Child Protection Policy, informing the appropriate professionals and parents/carers of concerns and procedure.
• Recognise and advise on Vulnerable Adult Abuse protection issues and follow the Kirklees Vulnerable Adult Protection Policy, informing the appropriate professionals and parents/carers of concerns and procedure as per Mid-Yorkshire Trust policy
• Nurse Leader/participant for the Major Trauma Team
• Initiate and participate in Advanced Life Support and cardiac arrest management.
• Maintain clear, accurate, legible and timely written documentation in patients notes providing a record of care delivered. Remind other members of the team to do likewise..
• Assess patients (triage) - requesting x-rays and supplying and administering analgesia, as needed, using Patient Group Directions. Refer, after nurse assessment, patients to other health care professionals such as mental health team, dental services, General Practitioners.
• Act on results of those x-rays and investigations requested by self.
• Administer intra venous, intra muscular, subcutaneous injections, and rectal and oral medication.
• Application of bandages casts and splints.
• Provide direct patient care. Attending to patients hygiene needs such as giving and removing bedpans and urinals. Washing incontinent, unclean and infested patients as required.
• Give direction, support and advice to junior staff
• Accept accountability and responsibility for own safe clinical practice. Comply with the NMC Code of Practice and subsequent published guidelines for practice.
• Act as the patients advocate when necessary.
• Attend the department and assume nurse leadership (in absence of Matron and Senior Sister) in the event of a major incident being declared
• Implement and maintain control of infection procedures, such as hand washing, and be attentive that others do so
• Move patients on trolleys to other area, such as x-ray; resuscitation room.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Sufficient or significant proven experience in Accident and Emergency/critical care
• A&E
• Evidence of participating in the development of patient care

Desirable

• Have experience working in a Urgent Treatment Center, Minor Injury, Walk in Center
• Immediate Life Support
• Paediatric Life support
• Trauma Nursing Course
• Advanced Life Support

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Effective communication skills, verbal and written.
• Demonstrates leadership skills.
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Has expanded clinical competencies such as wound closure; Intravenous cannulation;
• Administration of intravenous medicines

Desirable

• Undertaken added responsibilities as a Senior Staff Nurse such as moving and handling; wound care teaching; liaison role

Knowledge and Awareness

Essential

• Awareness of current professional nursing issues
• Mentorship and preceptorship skills.
• Demonstrate a high level of personal and professional autonomy and professional accountability
• Awareness of own limitations.

Desirable

• Demonstrates a knowledge of management issues

Qualifications

Essential

• Current NMC Registration
• Evidence of Continual Professional Development
• University Accredited Nurse
• Post Registration Qualification in ED Nursing/Critical Care Nursing or equivalent;
• Post Registration Qualification in Mentorship/Training;

Desirable

• Have or undertaking education with the intention of completing Health related degree

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 .

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 .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website .

Employer details

Employer name

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Pinderfields Hospital

Aberford Road

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF1 4DG

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