Community Health Practitioner
3 weeks ago
Join Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust as a Community Assistant Practitioner and contribute to delivering high-quality healthcare services to patients in their own homes, care homes, and clinics.
Job SummaryWe are seeking a highly motivated and compassionate individual to join our team as a Community Assistant Practitioner. As a key member of our community diabetes team, you will work closely with a Band 6 Diabetes Specialist Nurse and under the supervision of the Diabetes Specialist Nurse lead to provide care and support to patients with diabetes.
Key Responsibilities- Assess patients with straightforward requirements based on predetermined department protocols.
- Prepare for, carry out, and monitor assessments and treatments in specified clinical areas, and discharge in line with predetermined department protocols.
- Apply competency-based treatment techniques/care to patients with specific conditions under the supervision of a qualified practitioner, following a prescribed treatment/care plan.
- Modify and progress intervention/treatment using own clinical reasoning, notifying a qualified practitioner accordingly.
- Prepare for and develop individual/group activities to meet defined intervention needs.
- Monitor patients and promptly alert a qualified practitioner when there are unexpected changes.
- Demonstrate problem-solving, and contribute to the solution, working with colleagues.
- Make basic judgements on patients' response to prescribed treatment, and report findings to a qualified practitioner.
- Plan and prioritise own visits to delegated patients, and ensure these are documented in personal work diary.
- Ensure patient-held records are completed for each visit, and that SystmOne inputting is completed on a daily basis.
- Where there are barriers to understanding, such as hearing impairment, mental capacity impairment, and other difficulties in comprehension, explanations require adjustments in order to gain understanding, consent, and concordance.
- Be required to use tact and persuasive skills in order to gain the patients' co-operation in their treatment/care/management plan.
- Liaise with GPs, Social Services, inpatient teams, other allied healthcare professionals, and the voluntary sector to ensure identified needs are met and care co-ordinated appropriately.
- To participate in multi-disciplinary/multi-agency meetings as appropriate, e.g. Gold Standard Framework.
- Communicate with patients/carers by exchanging factual information, reassurance, tact, and empathy.
- Establish and maintain appropriate working relationships with colleagues, patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals.
- Demonstrate dexterity and coordination when undertaking treatment of patients where accuracy is important, e.g. taking blood sugars, venepuncture, supervising transfers, passive exercises.
- Be responsible for ensuring equipment is used safely, following appropriate training, and that it is maintained appropriately.
- Contribute to the requisitioning of supplies and equipment through electronic ordering systems.
- Work predominantly independently on specified tasks, with regular clinical support and supervision by a qualified practitioner.
- Work with qualified practitioners with group work/clinics as required.
- Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of consent, and gain consent as appropriate following department policy.
- Share responsibility for maintaining store cupboards, pool cars, cleaning specialist equipment, and general housekeeping tasks.
- Share responsibility for indirect patient contact tasks, such as answering telephones, arranging appointments, processing referrals, and inputting activity data.
- Will be exposed to bodily fluids, infected material, blood products on a daily basis, therefore must utilise universal precautions and adhere to infection control policies.
- Demonstrate basic IT and standard keyboard skills.
- To be an active member of the in-service training programme by attendance at and participation in staff meetings, training sessions, courses, and reflective practice.
- To participate in the staff appraisal scheme as an appraisee, maintaining a dynamic personal development plan.
- To demonstrate an awareness of clinical governance and risk management and apply to work situations.
- To provide peer support to other carers.
- To develop competencies to enhance practice and ability to meet needs of patients and the service.
- To establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, incorporating motivation, encouragement, and confidence building.
- To demonstrate an ability to communicate with patients/carers with complex needs, using clear and effective verbal/non-verbal communication.
- To gather and collate information to enable co-ordinator to plan interventions/liaison with others.
- To provide direct feedback to professionals as appropriate, and in a clear and concise way.
- To contribute to accurate and timely patient records, including data collection.
- To communicate and share information with DNs, GPs, and SWs as necessary.
- Be able to communicate effectively with patients/relatives with communication difficulties, i.e. deafness, blindness, learning difficulties.
- To provide feedback to co-ordinator in a clear and concise way.
- Undertake mandatory training as required.
- Participate in a Personal Development Review process.
- Undertake Personal Development Plans for more junior staff members.
- Take part in clinical supervision as per Trust Policy.
- Follow Trust policies, and local procedures.
- Ensure absence reporting is undertaken as determined by Team Leader and Trust Policy.
- Contribute to clinical audit as required.
- Complete the staff survey as required.
- Complete risk assessments and incident forms as required.
- May be required to undertake surveys or audits, as necessary to own work; may occasionally participate in R&D, clinical trials, or equipment testing.
- Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Rigorous recruitment checks are carried out, and where applicable to the role, successful applicants will be required to undertake a criminal records check via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
- Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust staff are responsible for protecting themselves and others against infection risks. All staff, regardless of whether clinical or not, are expected to comply with current infection control policies and procedures and to report any problems with regard to this to their managers. All staff undertaking patient care activities must attend infection control training and updates as required by Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust.
- Employees must be aware of the responsibilities placed upon them under the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974), to ensure the agreed safety procedures are carried out to maintain a safe environment for employees and visitors.
- All staff are required to respect confidentiality of all matters that they learn as a result of the employment with the Trust, including matters relating to other members of the staff and members of the public/patients.
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