Job overview

INTERNAL ONLY TO NORTH CUMBRIA INTEGRATED CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (NCIC) EMPLOYEES ONLY

Mouth Care Matters Lead - Band 5

This is a fixed term post to support initial foundation work to be completed within our organisation. This role is focused on implementing the programme in NCIC's Community Hospitals and Acute Paediatric Wards.

The successful applicant will provide training and support for hospital staff involved in provision of mouth care to patients. They will train key staff groups in good principles of mouthcare skills and assessments. They will have ambition to improve care provided to most vulnerable  in our hospitals. They will support with mouth care policy development and report to NHS England North East commissioners.

They must be self-directed and have ability to work in a busy environment. 

The successful applicant will have a flexible approach to working hours to ensure that we provide a consistent service to our patients across the services we support.

Our values are shared across North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust & NHS North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group.

They are:

•  Kindness - Kindness and compassion cost nothing, yet accomplish a great deal

•  Respect - We are respectful to everyone and are open, honest and fair - respect behaviours

•  Ambition - We set goals to achieve the best for our patients, teams, organisation and our partners
   
• Collaboration - We are stronger and better working together with and for our patients

Main duties of the job

• Provide training and support for hospital staff involved in the provision of mouth care for patients. This would be modified according to the ward patient base, for example intensive care, coronary care, geriatric, chemotherapy, palliative care etc.
• Training – delivery of interactive training sessions (ward based, classroom based and virtually) to groups of healthcare assistants, nurses and other staff involved in the provision of mouth care (dieticians, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists etc.)
• Mouth care risk assessments and recording – train and assist staff where necessary to complete mouth care assessments and mouth care plans.
• Actively participate in service improvement, including staff/patient surveys, focus groups, case studies/patient stories and audits. Liaise with senior management to ensure sustainable improvements in oral care and identify future training needs.
• Ensure that a Trust mouth care policy is written and accepted by the Trust Board and implemented across all inpatient sites.
• Ensure that the commissioned contract and key performance indicators are achieved and reported to NHS England North East.
• Provide oral health advice and instruction to specific client groups with complex needs.

Working for our organisation

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria.  The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’:

·       Being a clinically led organisation

·        Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust

·        A positive patient experience every time

·        A great place to work

·        Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.