Medication clinic/IV lead
Job Description
Job summary
- Do you have a passion and special interest for patients who require special care and treatment of intravenous lines /therapy/drains?
- Are you a skilled nurse with excellent interpersonal and clinical skills to lead a team specialising in intravenous therapy?
If you answered yes, we've got the perfect role for you!
We need a senior nurse to work with patients as part of the medication team. The right person will provide excellent clinical skills and leadership to lead the team in providing a seamless and quality service to patient's requiring different types of intravenous therapy i.e antibiotics both in the community and clinic setting.
Main duties of the job
- To provide professional leadership, support and advice to the Medication clinic team and Neighbourhood nursing team for all aspects of medication clinic services and intravenous therapy.
- To supervise practice, audit clinical care, teach and support colleagues and provide professional leadership.
- To work as a clinically independent and autonomous practitioner, and manage a defined patient caseload.
- To work as an autonomous practitioner throughout the community and in medication clinic to provide a high-quality professional service driven by clinical excellence to all patients who require intravenous antibiotics, injectable medication, indwelling drain and catheter management.
- To lead on maintaining delivering seamless quality services of the medication clinic through a 7-day week inclusive of Bank Holidays.
- To plan and facilitate training programmes for all aspects of intravenous therapy in the community.
- To develop and implement clinical pathways that are innovative and strive for quality and improve patient experience such as Virtual wards and OPAT pathways.
About us
So what else?
- This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you'll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
- We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
- We'll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.
- You'll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.
- Would you like to work flexibly?In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
At this time, MCH cannot fund or support any further nurses who require the OSCE training. Please do not apply if you require this training.
The small print
- Informal visits can be arranged on request.
- We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the scottish widows group pension scheme.
- MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.
Job responsibilities
Communication and relationship skills
- Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information, where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or reassurance skills are required. This may be because agreement or cooperation is required or because there are barriers to understanding.
- Communicate highly complex information using formal and informal means to ensure people are fully informed about the service.
- Ensure structures are in place for good communication and flow of information and actions.
- Effectively communicate at all levels of the organisation to a variety of health and social care professionals working in primary, community and secondary care, out of hours providers, voluntary organisation and patients and carers.
- Ability to effectively communicate, utilising coaching skills to ensure staff trust, enabling an ability to have open and honest conversations.
- Uses summarising and reflection to support staff to understand their thought process.
- Ability to be creative and support creative discussions
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
- First level registered Adult Nurse.
- Relevant nursing degree in Clinical Practice or equivalent.
- Independent Nurse prescriber (or willing to develop as an independent prescriber).
- ENB 998/preparation of mentorship.
- Evidence of Post Grad education.
- Breadth of clinical skills and experience relevant to the post such as intravenous therapy, elastomeric devices, remote patient monitoring, working knowledge of antimicrobial stewardship and resistance, various drains and central venous access devices, cannulation of peripheral and central venous access devices and phlebotomy.
- Teaching, coaching and mentoring skills.
- Inter professional working.
- Extensive experience of working at band 6 level.
- Experience of leadership and management.
- Expert assessor/evaluator of health care.
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of national policy drivers and clinical governance.
- Have an up-to-date knowledge of local/national guidelines/protocols related to services delivered by medication clinic.
- Proven and evidence of experience working as an autonomous practitioner.
- Experience of management skills to enable consideration of access, cost, value and quality when making health care decisions.
- A sound knowledge of Clinical Governance and risk management.
- To be a reflective practitioner who is responsible for own continuous development and maintenance of CPD portfolio
Analytical and judgement skills
- Critical thinker to facilitate problem solving and contributing to developing teams and services support to patients and their families.
- Expert problem-solving abilities.
- Is open minded and understands that other people have different points of view of the world and that they may be right, ability to change direction as appropriate.
- Uses solution driven methodology to underpin practice.
- Able to work collaboratively, both internally and externally.
- Ability to deal with complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, and the comparison of a range of options.
- Possess the skills for assessing and interpreting complex needs of patients/clients and staffing issues
Planning and organisational skills
- Possess excellent core organisational skills, including balancing multiple demands and prioritising based on achieving the best outcomes for teams.
- Able to work flexibly and across localities to support staff when required.
- To be able to undertake the range of complex clinical activities that are provided by the service.
Physical skills
- A high standard of keyboard skills including knowledge of IT packages / systems to support service delivery.
Responsibility for patient care
- To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work. To provide highly specialist advice with responsibility for delivering a quality service in locality areas.
- Ensure any risks to either patients or staff are managed efficiently and effectively and escalated both appropriately.
- Ensures teams are supported in developing/maintaining competencies and access clinical supervision in practice.
- Ensures the service is delivered within child/adult safeguarding processes and procedures.
- Confidently and competently assess and provide intervention to patients that require urgent intervention.
- Provide clinical support, leadership, and guidance to ensure that evidence-based care and clinical practice are maintained throughout neighbourhood nursing.
- Work in collaboration with the services, providers to provide care for patients and their families/carers.
- Support the teams to teach patients to self-manage their condition where possible and empower carers to actively participate in treatment plans.
- Support the prevention of avoidable hospital admissions and promote healthier lifestyles.
- Effectively triage referrals and prioritise to ensure they are outcome in a timely manner.
- Identify and manage health and safety issues and undertake risk assessment to minimise incidents.
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