Clinical Homecare Nurse and Trainer

Pharmaxo Pharmacy Services Ltd is a specialist pharmacy and clinical homecare provider in an expanding market offering greater choice and convenience to patients whilst delivering value and efficiencies to the NHS and private sector.

**About the role**
- To continuously update nursing knowledge ensuring in line with current legislation and best practice
- To continuously update knowledge of specialty and disease areas and relevant publications
- To ensure continued professional development (CPD) is updated to ensure fitness for revalidation
- Contribution to the development and maintenance of the standard operating procedures (SOPs) and protocols to ensure they are fit for purpose and accurate
- To ensure their practice is compliant with the company’s policies and procedures
- To complete additional projects and tasks, short term or long term, and will be guided by the value "Can it be better?"
- Attend and participate in all team meetings
- Administration of prescribed medicines to patients either in a clinic or out of hospital setting, predominantly the patient’s home
- To ensure all patient care and administration of prescribed medicines are provided to first class clinical and ethical standards and demonstrates best practice
- Support for clinical homecare nurses in clinical procedures across all services
- To provide education for patient/carers in the out of hospital environment as required
- To provide support and advice to patients, as appropriate
- Develop strong working relationships with the patients’ clinical teams within the secondary and primary healthcare settings, as appropriate
- To manage the interface between hospital services and other agencies to meet patients’ needs
- Ability and willingness to travel within an agreed area / distance from their home base
- Record Keeping
- To maintain accurate records of care and completion in a timely manner
- To assist in the recording/reporting of adverse events/incidents, including side-effects of therapy
- To report to and work closely with your manager providing all appropriate communication in an agreed and timely manner
- To maintain your Outlook calendar in the agreed format ensuring clear visibility of activity
Excellent time management skills providing a flexible service that meets company and patients’ needs

**Clinical Competency**
- Experience in administration of chemotherapy with a recognised chemotherapy course
- To identify development needs with your manager and ensure that these are addressed in agreed timelines
- To maintain all relevant clinical skills and attend regular updates
- To ensure continued professional registration, including meeting revalidation requirements
- To maintain self and patient safety through the appropriate use of policies, protocols and guidelines
- To support and mentor all nurse team colleagues and providing feedback to the Regional Nurse Manager to allow for the compilation of appropriate development plans
- To undertake appropriate training and participation in clinical trials work, where required

**Specific to the Clinical Trainer role**
- Strong personal values and high level of integrity
- Participates in the investigation and resolution of Complaints and Incidents where they specifically involve clinical interventions
- Performs regular audits of completed nursing documentation in conjunction with the Nursing Services Co-ordinator Team, providing feedback to the Regional Nurse Managers
- Respond to requests from Regional Nurse Managers to assist with resolution of nurse visit scheduling in relation to clinical competency
- Development, maintenance and delivery of Nurse Induction programmes and participation in Company Induction for other departments
- Deliver training and assessment of clinical competencies for new nurses and ongoing annual assessment for all nurses
- Ongoing review of clinical practices to ensure they are evidence based and in line with current practice
- Liaises with Regional Nurse Mangers to support clinical nurses to be an effective 'link nurse’ for specific hospitals and services
- Providing support to nurse team colleagues who are undertaking a support and mentoring role with new starters
- Development of clinical training packages for nurses ensuring there is a recognised sign-off process. This may involve working with outside agencies.
- Deliver Pharmacovigilance, Information Governance and Complaints & Incidents training to company personnel, as required.

**You must have**
- Significant nursing, mentoring and training experience
- Training and mentoring qualification
- Strong organisational skills
- Ability to follow written and oral instruction
- Prioritisation skills and co-ordination of work
- Has the ability to use own initiative to deliver results
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
- Work in an organised and tidy manner
- Adaptable and willingness to learn new skills
- Attention to detail
- Good commercial awareness and emotional intelligence
- Good timekeeping
- Ability to work with a range of diverse colleagues
- Self-motivated and energetic approach, showing interest in understanding the business and industry
- Strong personal values and high level of integrity
- Good personal hygiene and professional image

**In return we offer rewards and benefits including**:

- Competitive salary (depending on experience, knowledge and skills)
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Company bonus scheme upon successful completion of probation
- Generous pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- Company car (full time) or car allowance (part time)
- Reimbursement of NMC fees
- Uniform provided
- Ongoing training and support with revalidation