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