Band 6 Nurse

Job Title:

Senior Staff Nurse Band 6 Responsible To:
Integrated Nursing Service Lead Accountable To:
Director of Clinical Services Pay Scale:
Agenda for Change Unsocial hours payment payable dependant on shift pattern Hours of work:
Full time. Flexible working. Internal rotation between day and night shifts (11.5 hour shifts).

Job summary To work as part of the Integrated Care Team providing symptom management, palliative and end-of-life care, as well as planned and emergency short breaks at the hospice, home and support BCYP in hospitals. The postholder will take on a lead role to support work required to ensure high standards of care are delivered and maintained. The post holder will be required to work a variety of shifts as the hospice provides care services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

CORE

RESPONSIBILITIES Clinical

To support the team with the implementation of high-quality services including delivering direct care to babies, children, young people and their families, embedding effective and supportive leadership.

To co-ordinate the shift/ caseload work, ensuring safe, effective and responsive delivery of individualised care.

To provide high quality nursing care for children and young people who have palliative care needs in the hospice and community as required as part of a child led integrated service.

To contribute to the care plans and assessments required to ensure the child/young person receives safe and effective care.

To be fully conversant with and contribute to all clinical guidelines, policies and procedures of Haven House.

To communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to service users, care staff and other members of the team.

To work with the education team and further support junior colleagues with accountability for health care support workers.

To ensure that safeguarding is embedded in practice and concerns are escalated at the earliest opportunity to the safeguarding lead.

To effectively use the electronic patient record system to ensure accurate and timely data is entered.

To demonstrate a professional approach to work and act in accordance the NMC code.

To be available to partake in line management of junior staff working towards effective development, wellbeing and progression for each team member.

To be part of the senior nurse on call team; rotating to covering on call duties for both planned, unplanned and end of life care.

Work collaboratively with other team members:

• To contribute to the evaluation the service as required ensuring that children, young people and familys views are represented.
• To work closely in collaborative relationships with multidisciplinary teams, such as allied health professionals or external stakeholders like schools and social care teams.
• To be aware of allocated resources and ensure effective time management in own role.
• To promote good relationships and good working practice across teams.

Clinical Governance

• To participate in audit, service user feedback collection and research as required.
• Responsibility in monitoring and maintaining compliance with CQC (Care Quality Commission) standards.
• To report all clinical and non-clinical incidents and accidents and engage in incident reviews as a learning opportunity in order to improve service.
• To constructively identify issues with care strategy, policies and procedures in the interests of the organisation and users of the service.

Educational

To identify own learning needs and ensure professional development is maintained.

To engage in Haven House performance and appraisal system.

To contribute to overall staff and service development by updating the evidence base for the team re clinical practice.

Education and training of parents/carers to meet the health care needs of their child.

Educati…