Nurse

The Pudding; Blackpool; On-site; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Blackpool seeks a Registered Nurse (Non-Medical Prescriber) to work with vulnerable populations. The role involves conducting lung function tests and providing holistic care to homeless individuals. Candidates should exhibit excellent communication skills and a compassionate approach. This fixed-term position offers 15 hours per week, with a focus on improving health outcomes in the community.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Career Development Opportunities

Attendance Bonus

Staff Benefit Scheme

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

Qualifications

• At least 2 years post qualification experience.
• Ability to work as a team member and exercise initiative.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical skills and advice for patient assessment and management.
• Conduct respiratory reviews and lung function testing.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams for homeless patients.

Skills

Communication

Compassion

Flexibility

Education

Registered Nurse (NMC)

Accredited spirometry qualification

NMP V300 qualification

Job description

Post: Registered Nurse (Non-Medical Prescriber)

Hours: 15 Hours per week Fixed term contract for 12 months

Service Operates: Monday to Friday between 0800-1830

Pay: £23.61 - £27.01 depending on experience

Reports to: Clinical Manager

Accountable to: Head of Primary and Community Care

Base: Newfield House, Blackpool undertaking Clinics across Blackpool, Fylde

and Wyre.

Job Summary

We are looking for individuals with a passion and enthusiasm to work with some of the most vulnerable and complex people within our community. The right candidates will be approachable and display excellent communication skills, compassion, tolerance, and a non-judgemental attitude. This is an exciting opportunity to work in new and innovative ways, positively impacting on the lives of people within the homeless community.

As part of this service, we are looking for nurses who have a passion for respiratory to undertake lung function testing on patients at high risk of respiratory conditions including COPD, Asthma to those that may require a fast track for further investigations.

Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours.

Duties And Responsibilities

• To provide clinical skills and advice demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of the client group within scope of practice.
• To provide respiratory reviews for patients including lung function testing when appropriate
• When applicable, participate and contribute to the multi-disciplinary team for homeless people.
• Input into holistic care plans, to ensure a focus on the individuals goals and support them to comply with the plan ultimately improving health outcomes,
• Increase health literacy and co-operation with health prevention and treatment pathways for homeless people
• Provide outreach to individuals who cannot attend a designated location. The role will involve working across different sites and will include clinics for homeless people on the health bus
• Work to attain the service KPIs and target
• Ensure all patient contact is recorded in a timely manner on the IT systems to enable tracking of patient outcomes, both in real-time to support ongoing intervention planning and retrospectively to understand the impact of the service
• To ensure mandatory training is kept up to date
• Acknowledge and accommodate barriers to communication and understanding including speech, hearing, language, and emotion.
• Initiate emergency action when required
• Obtain and dispatch specimens on request
• Act in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures
• Prioritise, organise, and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
• Deliver care according to local and national guidelines
• Obtain and document consent for any treatment undertaken and keep the patient at the centre of his/her own care, ensuring full participation in decision making
• Work within all relevant policies and procedural guidelines e.g., infection control, chaperoning and risk management
• Safeguarding responsibilities for adults and vulnerable groups, reporting concerns appropriately at the correct time and engaging with services as needed.
• The Head of nursing may also ask for other duties to be carried out to the benefit of the organisation.
  
  

The above list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be fully comprehensive and may be amended to take account of changing circumstances or requirements following consultation with the post holder.

Our Key Expectations Are

Self-awareness Living authentically

Adaptability- Being ready to adjust depending on the situation

Openness What you see is what you get

Positivity with a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible

Generosity of spirit- Everyday should be an opportunity to act with kindness

Ability to have fun Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself

Our Why: To nurture an environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so this people in our world receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next.

Values: Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours. Our behaviours should be in line with our values which form part of our Company DNA:

Fun: People rarely succeed unless they are having fun. Happiness is healthy!

Awesome: We arent here to be average, were here to be awesome!

Humble: Were here to make a difference to the lives of others, NOT to see how important we can become

Brave: We challenge the norm. We have the courage to get the difficult jobs done

Oompf: We have natural oompf! Its infectious!

Go-getting: We are intuitive to changing needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, and positivity

Come and be a part of our amazing team!

We offer NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Career Development Opportunities

Attendance Bonus

Staff Benefit Scheme

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

Role of the Service

Our complex lives business unit provides healthcare to those who are particularly vulnerable across Blackpool Fylde and Wyre and beyond.

It Is Made Of 3 Areas Of Practice

• Compass Medical Practice this a GP practice for those who are difficult to manage in mainstream practice. Patients are either consulted with via the telephone /video link and when a face-to-face consultation is required a risk assessment is undertaken to see what support the clinician requires. Consultations take place with a patient liaison officer in wither our mobile van or in an agreed location pre booked in advance.
• Homeless Health Team - FCMS provides a healthcare service for Homeless People within our local community. Our team of clinicians are co-ordinating the care of the homeless population and offering enhanced support for those who are not accessing mainstream services. The team run clinics around the local town centre, working closely with other agencies that support this community. The team offer a comprehensive and holistic assessment of the individuals needs and work with existing health services to meet these and use every contact opportunity to offer health promotion and improve the health outcomes for these patients. The team offer everything from wound care; immunisations; management of long-term condition advice, to supporting with complex care needs.
• Asylum Seeker Clinics we provide new patient health checks to these patients whilst registering them at a local GP practice at the same time. This takes place in the hotel where they are staying with the aid of interpreters.
  
  

Educational

To follow safe working practices and to always comply with local Safety Policies and Procedures

To ensure confidentiality on all matters relating to patients and information obtained during employment and not to release such information to anyone other than those acting in an official capacity as instructed

Maintain good relationships with other members of the staff team across all disciplines

Contribute to the identification of own training needs and participate in relevant in-service training

Where necessary attend relevant training in the operation of new or unfamiliar equipment, software or procedures will be provided or arranged.

Confidentiality

In the course of your duties, you may have access to confidential information about patients, staff or health service business. On no account must such information be divulged to anyone who is not authorised to receive it. Confidentiality of information must be always preserved whether at or away from work. FCMS has in place a Whistle blowers Policy for staff wishing to express concerns.

Data Protection Act, 1998

Carry out any requirements within the duties applicable to the Data Protection Act, 1998.

Health and Safety At Work Act, 1974

Observe all responsibilities and carry out all duties, whether general to all employees or specific to the post, relating to Health and Safety in accordance with the Practice and Departmental Safety Policies and any statutory requirements.

Clinical & Corporate Governance/Quality Assurance

All employees are expected to comply with the clinical and corporate governance arrangements of FCMS. Every employee is personally responsible for the quality of the work, and standard of care, which they individually provide. It is their duty to seek to attain the highest standards achievable both individually and collectively within their knowledge, skills and resources available to them.

Outside Employment/Outside Interests

If you have other work or outside interests, this must not conflict with your duties and responsibilities of your attendance for work as an employee of the Practice.

It is a condition of appointment that you must inform your manager before taking up of any private practice, work for outside agencies or other employers, other work for this Practice (including bank work), voluntary work or outside interests you have or propose to have. This is to ensure there is no question of it creating a conflict of interest with your NHS duties. You must also therefore seek your manager's approval before taking on any such other work or outside interest at any time after entering employment.

Working Time Directive

You are required to comply with the regulations governing working time and to any locally agreed associated arrangements.

Harassment and Bullying

The Practice condemns all forms of harassment and bullying and is actively seeking to promote a workplace where employees are treated with dignity, respect and without bias.

Equal Opportunities

In all the foregoing text any reference to one gender whether direct or implied equally includes the opposite gender unless specifically stated to be otherwise.

Fire Training

Each member of the staff has a statutory obligation to attend a Fire Lecture each year. It is the responsibility of each member of staff to ensure that they comply with this legal requirement.

No Smoking Policy

FCMS has a no smoking policy

Disclosure/Criminal Record (DBS) This post will be subject to enhanced disclosure under DBS. The role is subject to a DBS check which will require three forms of valid ID to be produced and verified. The onboarding process is also subject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility to work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation as evidence).

Person Specification

Knowledge & Skills - Essential

Ability to work as a team member

Able to exercise initiative in organisation and prioritising

Good communication skills both written and oral

Good Interpersonal skills

Basic IT skills

Desirable

Knowledge of Adastra and EMIS computer systems

Motivational interviewing techniques

Personal Qualities - Essential

Enthusiastic and committed about the role

Flexible

Ability to diffuse difficult situations and deal with difficult members of the public

Positive and confident disposition

Ability to travel between sites

Commitment to personal and professional development

Promote the Service with its ever expansion

Experience - Essential

Passion for working with this patient group.

Experience of caseload holding and multi-disciplinary working

Desirable

Experience working with vulnerable or complex groups of patients

Long term condition management experience

Health promotion Experience

Qualifications - Essential

Good standard of general education

Registered Nurse (NMC) with relevant experience post qualification

At least 2 years post qualification

Accredited spirometry qualification including interpretation of results.

NMP V300 qualification

Respiratory qualification

Desirable

Be able to undertake FENO testing.

Teaching

Essential

Willing / able to attend appropriate training

Commitment to own personal development

The organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. You will be expected to fulfil your mandatory safeguarding training at the level applicable to this role.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.