Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Knowledge and Skills

 

1.            Communication and Relationship Skills

 

 

• Supports patients and their families, through communicating information using a variety of methods, to ensure effective understanding and reporting the outcome to the nurse in charge.
• Contributes to the effective communication between members of the multi disciplinary team, taking personal responsibility to share update and share information
• Ensures information is conveyed to the patient in a timely and understandable manner, using different communication methods to clarify understanding
• Responsible for ensuring the registered nurse receives factual, prompt and accurate information on how patients progress

 

 

 

2.            Knowledge, Training and Experience

 

• Uses knowledge and experience to deliver routine tasks as agreed with the registered nurse or other professional.
• Uses knowledge and experience to follow agreed policy and procedure

• Undertakes a range of predefined procedures, for which specific training has been given under the direction of the registered nurse or other professional.

·         Provides advice to patients and their families on hospital procedures, and information about facilities available during their stay in hospital

·         Gains the required knowledge through training to remove and apply plaster casts and splints and perform venepuncture.

 

 

 

 

 

3.            Analytical Skills

 

 

• Records baseline observations including temperature, pulse and respirations and reports finding to the registered nurse
• Follows written and verbal instruction to deliver treatment plans devised by the registered nurse or other professional.

 

 

 

4.            Planning and Organisational Skills

 

• Responsible for delivering a delegated workload against the needs of patients and service requirements

• Reports any changes or concerns about the patients well-being to the registered nurse

 

 

 

 

5.            Physical Skills

 

 

• Uses medical equipment, to monitor and record baseline observations
• Practices safe moving and handling procedures when assisting patients with mobility
• Assists patients in a variety of procedures, including hygiene, eating and drinks and toileting.
• Uses various splinting material to apply plaster casts as requested by other professionals.
• Applies other more complicated casts supervised by qualified nurse who has completed in house cast training or has BOA plaster technician qualification.
• Applies various splints/appliances using different materials as directed by other professionals.
• Following required training obtains blood samples from patients for pathology analysis.

 

 

 

 

 

Responsibilities

 

6.            Responsibilities for Patient/Client Care

 

• Responsible for providing direct care to the defined group of patients under the direction of the registered nurse or other professional.
• Assists patients to undertake normal activities of daily living
• Follows care plans developed by the registered nurse or other professional.

 

 

 

 

7.            Responsibilities for Policy and Service Development

 

 

• Contributes and comments on policies and procedures affecting the ward or department
• Follows policy and guidelines informing members of the multi professional team of any changes

 

 

 

 

 

8.            Responsibilities for Financial and Physical Resources

 

• Uses specialist equipment to assist in the monitoring and diagnosis of patients, following a period training.
• Is proficient in the use of specialist equipment as an aid to diagnosis
• Responsible for the cleaning of clinical equipment

 

 

 

9.            Responsibilities for Staff/HR/Leadership/Training

 

 

• Supports new members of staff during their induction
• Explains and demonstrates to other team members a range of learnt procedures, assisting them to develop skills

 

 

 

 

10.          Responsibilities for Information Resources

 

• Responsible for providing accurate and timely records on patient care and performance using paper and IT based systems, in accordance with trust policy

 

 

 

11.          Responsibilities for Research and Development

 

• Assists in audits, and research-based studies to evaluate the effectiveness of care interventions.
• Assist patients to complete satisfaction surveys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.          Freedom to Act

 

 

• Works under the direction of a registered nurse, to deliver a range of pre determined care procedures
• The post holder is required to undertake a range of routine procedures for the ward and department, without the need to refer to the trained nurse

 

 

 

 

 

Effort and Environment

 

13.          Physical Effort

 

• The post holder will have direct patient contact, delivering direct care in a variety of hospital settings in accordance with the need of patients. In particular dealing with intimate procedures

 

 

 

14.          Mental Effort

 

• The post holder is required to be adaptable, to the changing clinical priorities, which will including responding to emergency procedures

 

 

 

15.          Emotional Effort

 

• The post holder assists patients, through a range of treatments and experiences. Many of which can be highly distressing.

 

 

 

16.          Working Conditions

 

• The post holder will work in a hospital ward or department, handling soiled linen, disposing of bodily fluids and following infection control procedures