Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Patient Care Delivery

• Predominantly community-based role but will be expected to work within Worthing hospital site as required, depending on workload or to cover leave. 
• To independently maintain and organise own case load ensuring high standards of appropriate information giving and care both physical and psychological.
• Accept referrals for and organise to see elective patients and carers pre-operatively to provide information and education with regards to their proposed surgery.
• Site elective patients for their stoma forming surgery or possible stoma forming surgery and where possible patients having emergency surgery involving the patient/carer in decision making process.
• Identify educational needs of individual patients and their carer’s and facilitates the meeting of those needs to ensure timely discharge.
• Participate in maintaining the Stoma Care Helplines.
• To lead ward staff in developing a plan of care for each patient with discharge planning central to this process.
• Provide samples and advice on appliances and accessories as required, ensuring impartiality at all times.
• To provide follow up care and support during home visits and in nurse led outpatients clinics.
• Undertake autonomous Nurse Led Stoma Care Clinics seeing both new and follow up patients where plans of a care and treatment decisions are made and implemented.
• To maintain accurate documentation and provide verbal and written reports as required ensuring patients are not lost to follow up.
• Act as an expert in complex cases to the MDT, communicating relevant information and ensuring appropriate referral and management for these patients.
• To support senior Stoma Care Nurse Specialists to see groups of patients including paediatrics, neonatal and those who have internal pouches or require colostomy irrigation training.

Communication

• Ensure and promote excellent communication with all members of the MDT.
• Provide condition related information to patients in clinic setting and at the bedside (pre-op and post-op), to include gaining informed consent, requiring empathy and reassurance.
• Lead once-monthly patient groups within the community, providing information, support etc. 
• Attend weekly clinical meetings as needed to foster MDT working.
• Ensure confidentiality and adherence to data protection legislation.
• Ensure that a full and accurate record of care is documented in a timely manner utilising appropriate nursing and medical systems as well as our bespoke stoma care database.
• Ensure stoma care database and diary are used effectively and accurately.
• Promote inclusiveness and treat people with kindness and compassion.
• Promote a team ethos within the stoma care department and promote a positive working environment.
• Ensure grievances/disputes/complaints are investigated thoroughly in a timely manner.

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