Associate Public Health Nurse
4 weeks ago
This is an exciting new role aimed at advancing our innovative remote surgical wound monitoring program to the next level. The successful candidate will ensure the smooth running of the seven-day service for the Central Wound Hub, providing a world-class service for both our patients and staff.
Key Responsibilities:- Oversee the daily running of the new Central Wound Hub to ensure patients are reviewed and responded to in a timely manner on the digital remote wound platform.
- Provide timely review of patient submissions to the Central Wound Hub, ensuring appropriate reassurance, advice, and/or referral as required.
- Ensure information on clinically relevant community treatment is recorded for visibility and optimal care delivery.
- Collect and/or oversee data on clinical outcomes.
- Identify areas for improvement in relation to the Central Wound Hub and work with the Trust Lead for SSI to deliver an improvement plan, using appropriate methodology.
- Work within the SSI team providing specialist input in SSIS data collection, handling ensuring correct completion of surveillance forms or electronic surveillance data platforms.
- Undertake audits in relation to SSIS and ensure audit documentation is completed correctly.
- Work autonomously managing a caseload of a defined group of patients ensuring close surveillance is undertaken to identify Surgical Site Infections (SSI) and determine incidence and prevalence of infections.
- Promote a patient-focused approach to care ensuring high standards of surgical care are followed in collaboration with all relevant health professionals.
- Assess surgical patients to identify signs of infection and initiate interventions to prevent or mitigate infection or wound healing issues.
- Participate in data entry and coding.
- Participate in telephone and remote digital post-discharge follow-up surveillance.
- Provide specialist nursing input in the identification, prevention, and monitoring of SSI.
- Support the Infection control surveillance lead nurse in the review of microbiological data to evaluate the efficiency of an intervention and plan future practice in consultation with relevant clinical leads.
- Support general enquiries relating to SSIS from patients, staff, and the general public always acting appropriately, sensitively, and professionally to ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times.
- Collaborate and support surgical teams in providing information which enables patients to make choices about adopting a healthier lifestyle and actions to reduce surgical site infections.
- Participate in the promotion and maintenance of effective communication with patients and health professionals in relation to surgical site wound surveillance.
- Support the Infection control surveillance lead nurse in ensuring that national mandatory surveillance data collection targets are met and data is collected, inputted, and followed up by the Surveillance Team in a timely and efficient manner.
- Maintain effective communication within the SSIS, IPC, Intravenous Access Devices, and Tissue Viability teams and with the wider clinical community.
- Support the Trust Lead for SSI Surveillance, Research, and Innovation in assisting clinical teams in the formulation and initiation of appropriate strategies or action plans required to minimize the risk of SSIs.
- Provide clinical support for junior colleagues, including ongoing training needs and development, providing consistency even when working remotely.
- Review shift rotas for the Central Wound Hub, ensuring adequate cover for a seven-day service including out-of-hours.
- Assist Trust and team leaders to deliver and manage quality improvement projects.
- Attendance of clinical governance meetings for relevant surgical directorates, if required.
- Organise network surgical specialism meetings (external) alongside SSI team colleagues.
- Maintain accurate records of the SSIS ensuring that confidentiality is upheld.
- Liaise with the SSIS Team and external agencies to ensure that appropriate Trust data is provided to Public Health.
- Maintain a flexible approach to the role and ensure provisions on an efficient and effective service within agreed parameters.
- Supervision responsibility for junior SSIS Team members.
- Prioritise workload taking into account varying demands and challenges.
- Identify problems related to the prevention of SSIs and be involved in developing improved methods of work in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Develop and maintain optimal relationships with lead clinicians, senior nursing staff, clinical audit leads, and the infection and prevention control teams.
- Support and work collaboratively with SSIS Team colleagues in the production of logical, structured written reports for relevant clinical staff, the trust Infection Control Committee, SSIS committee, and the Trust Infection Control and Decontamination Assurance Committee (TICDAC).
- Responsible for monitoring and ensuring the validity of patient information collected by clinical teams for the surveillance programme within the Trust alongside SSI team.
- Take responsibility for ensuring the standard of data collection by the SSI team and data entry is accurate.
- Participate in clinical audits, quality improvement, service evaluation, innovation, and research as requested by the Trust SSI Lead.
- Work with clinical areas where SSIS is undertaken in identifying the education needs of staff.
- Participate in the training and development of the SSI team and the wider surgical teams, e.g. UKHSA SSI surveillance training.
- Incorporate UKHSA guidelines, NICE guidelines, and other public health issues into guidance and advice for all staff in consultation with clinical leads and the SSIS lead nurse.
- Critically appraise and evaluate IPC practice around SSI through a structured audit programme designed to reduce surgical site infections.
- Act as a facilitator in relevant clinical trials related to SSI.
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