Senior Night Nurse

Job responsibilities

Summary of the role:

• Working across both Inpatient Units, with a main base in Coventry, deploying at short notice to the Warwick inpatient unit, where staffing shortages and/or increase in patient acuity may arise. As an unassigned nurse (float), coordinate clinical activity across both inpatient units, providing expert support, advice and guidance to staff, and attending either unit as required to ensure safe, effective and responsive care delivery at night.
• To coordinate the assessment, planning and evaluation of individualised patient centred care. Facilitating a holistic approach; that is sensitive and responsive to the ever-changing needs of both patients and their carer. Providing clinical leadership in the absence of the Inpatient Unit Manager/Deputy ensuring an evidence-based approach is promoted at all times within a multidisciplinary team framework.
• Practice an approach that facilitates and fosters learning for students, junior staff and those on placement to Myton. Sharing expertise appropriately and supporting each learner to achieve their learning needs.

Myton Core Values:

Our Core Values underpin everything we do and all employees are expected to comply with our Values and reflect these in their day-to-day work.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Leadership and Management:

• Be clinically based on the inpatient unit with the highest level of patient acuity, complexity, dependency needs, or staffing pressures, ensuring visible clinical leadership and hands on support where it is most needed.
• Provide leadership, advice, guidance and hands-on clinical support to nursing and care staff working across both inpatient units during night shifts.
• Act as the primary point of contact for night staff requiring clinical, professional or operational support, promoting effective decision-making and problem-solving.
• Support the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of complex patient care, providing expert guidance in challenging clinical situations as they arise.
• Coordinate and manage out-of-hours clinical and operational escalations, liaising appropriately with the Senior Nurse and Doctor On-Call to ensure timely and effective responses.
• Promote and uphold safe, effective, evidence-based and person-centred care throughout the night.
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across both inpatient units, attending either unit as required to provide support, advice and clinical leadership.
• Support staff wellbeing, development and confidence by acting as a role model, mentor and resource for colleagues working overnight.
• Supporting patient flow, where appropriate, for example, emergency admissions/out of hours admission coordination, support teams to complete relevant discharge paperwork in order to support timely discharges.
• Monitoring and responding to deteriorating patients in line with their ceiling of care.
• Identifying and escalating risks relating to staffing, patient safety or service delivery.
• Supporting learning, development and reflective practice amongst night staff.
• Recognise patients, families and carers as partners in the care team. Promoting a person centred approach and working collaboratively with all members of the wider multi-disciplinary team.
• Promote a multi-disciplinary approach to care delivery which may include participating in MDT meetings, proactively preparing and presenting clinical information at handover, MDTs, case reviews etc.
• Participate in group reflective practice to support the professional and personal wellbeing and development of the team.
• Participate in the process of recruitment, induction and retention of staff and volunteers.
• Provide emotional / spiritual support to patients and families throughout the disease and dying trajectory, providing, and receiving highly complex, sensitive or contentious information.
• Take responsibility for the Ward on a shift basis including the supervision of junior staff and students.
• Support the Unit Manager and Deputy in supporting the volunteers on the Ward ensuring effective communication is established and maintained.
• Work collaboratively with nursing and care teams and have a proactive approach in facilitating discharge and ensure that standards of discharge are implemented and maintained in liaison with the discharge co-ordinator.

2. Quality, Safety and Governance:

• Uphold and ensure compliance with the organisation's policies and procedures; ensuring all volunteers are clear in relation to their roles and responsibilities for Health and Safety, Infection prevention and control, Safeguarding Adults & Children, Data protection and other relevant policies.
• Utilise a range of communication skills to instruct, inform and negotiate in order to achieve active patient participation in their treatment programme; respecting their dignity, wishes and beliefs throughout all interventions.
• Take an active role in risk assessment, supporting implementation of strategies to minimise risk. Ensuring incidents and clinical adverse events and near misses are reported and assist in the investigation at clinical level through promotion of a no blame culture.
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