Community Clinic Nurse

Welcome to Lowestoft Primary Care Home (PCH) team.

Are you a Registered Nurse (Adult) with a passion for wound healing and leg ulcer diagnosis and treatment? Do you want to progress your nursing career with a supportive and encouraging team, delivering person centred care in a clinic and occasional home setting? Utilising health coaching to support patient involvement in shared decision making.

Do you like the idea of forming longer term therapeutic relationships with patients and their families?

The wider PCH is a multidisciplinary team delivering health care to people in the coastal town of Lowestoft. The combined skills of the team mean they are able to respond to the changing needs of patients and support those who may previously been admitted to hospital to remain at home. The leg ulcer clinic is vaulable asset within the PCH delivering specialsied leg ulcer care to patients who are not housebound.

The clinic operates Monday to Friday 08:30- 16:30 excluding bank holidays.

This post is offered up to 37.5 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

As a Leg clinic nurse you will be providing an excellent standard of person centered care to adults with a lower leg wound in a clinic setting and occasionally their own home.

You will participate in the planning and efficient running of the leg ulcer clinic at Kirkley mill and may on occasion work from other clinic sites.

This role includes triage of incoming referrals, determining clinical priority, completing holistic patient assessment, specific wound assessments including recording dopplers, diagnosis and treatment plan, for patients referred to the service. Supporting patients to self care using health coaching.

You will be supported to complete the leg ulcer management course delivered in partnership with Accelerate CIC, and a health coaching qualification. You will be encouraged to continue your own professional development and contribute to service improvement. You will be part of the PCH support for students; those on an apprenticeship route and newly qualified nurses. Once experienced you will be a knowledgeable resource on leg ulceration to the wider PCH; other ECCH clinicians; primary care and other partners.

For further information or an informal visit please email the Lead Nurse

About us

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.

We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - . We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.

At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

We encourage you to apply as early as possible as this job may close earlier than the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received.

Lowestoft Primary Care Home is a multidisciplinary clinical team of health and social care professionals working in partnership with Primary Care, Social Services, social care providers, other specialist community health teams and voluntary sector providers to ensure patients are able to remain in their own homes whenever possible.

Job responsibilities

Contributeto, support and promote ECCHs, strategic direction, values and culture inrelation to proactive services. Contribute to, support and promote ECCHs,strategic direction, values and culture in relation to proactive services.

Communicateeffectively with patients, relatives and carers, respecting patientconfidentiality with privacy and respect for diverse cultural backgrounds andrequirements.

Communicatecomplex, sensitive or contentious information to patients, relatives or carers,where persuasive, motivational, negotiating and empathetic skills arerequired.

To actas a resource for community nursing colleagues and other health professionalsregarding leg ulcer management across the Primary Care Networks.

Toparticipate in teaching and clinical supervision of support workers and otherprovider staff as required.

Toprovide mentorship to pre and post registration students.

Tocontribute to the clinical governance agenda through participation in clinicalrisk assessment and management.

Tocritically evaluate research findings, national guidelines and support theimplementation of changes in clinical practice as appropriate.

Toparticipate in clinical trials as required.

To makea positive contribution to excellent communications within the organisation.

Work Together, Achieve Together

Tocontribute to the delivery of the Lower Limb Pathway, providing management oflower leg ulceration in a clinical setting within agreed time frames.

Tocreate an environment conducive to effective working, respecting and supportingstaff to deliver high quality clinical services.

To workwith other members of the primary care home to deliver pro-active services.

Flexibilityto work across bases within the organisation if required.

To workwith colleagues to contribute in developing care pathways for patients with arange of healthcare needs.

My Accountability, My Responsibility

Toundertake continuous professional development as identified through appraisaland personal development planning.

Ensureown compliance with the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct.

Ensurea high standard of record keeping is achieved in line with ECCH andprofessional standards.

Toreport any concerns via datix incident reporting system.

Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money

To take responsibility for management of clinic resources.

Tocontribute to the ongoing review of the wound care formulary and guidelines.

Allroles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff todemonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service theyprovide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members ofstaff should consider these as an essential part of their job role.

OurValues outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarisedas an acronym within the word CARE.These stand for: Compassion,Action, Respect and Everyone.

Underpinningour Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the rightactions we continue to build a strong culture.Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, WeLead Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility Respect - Respect OurResources: People, Time and Money Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.

Person Specification Experience

• The ability to work unsupervised.
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• The ability to demonstrate a comprehensive level of clinical knowledge and competence within the clinical sphere of practice
• Evidence of experience in working to a case management approach
• Experience of working in a community setting

Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Ability to engage with patients to develop effective treatment plans
• Ability to positively support and educate staff, patients and their carers
• Ability to perform a holistic assessment using clinical judgement
• Competent in application of compression bandaging as part of a treatment package to manage lower leg ulceration
• Competence in Health Coaching, supporting patients to change health behaviours and beliefs
• The ability to perform and interpret Doppler readings as part of a holistic assessment or be willing to learn

Personal Attributes

• Flexible, team-orientated approach to work
• Solution and results focused
• Ability to organise and manage a delegated caseload effectively
• Ability to travel independently throughout the locality in accordance with role requirements
• Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours:
• (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together)

Qualifications

• Professional Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council. (NMC) Registered Nurse Level (Adult)
• BSc in Nursing practice or equivalent
• Leg Ulcer Management Module at Degree level

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.