Complex Care Nurse in Eastbourne

Location: Eastbourne

Salary: £40,000 – £45,000 per annum

Hours: Monday – Friday 09:00-17:00 with flexibility to meet the needs of the business.

The Complex Care Nurse is an office-based role that is an integral part of the excellent care delivery Prestige Nursing & Care provide to our adult and child social care clients. The Complex Care Nurse must possess strong clinical knowledge and expertise to provide our professional carers with thorough training, assessment and supervision to enable evidence based clinical care for our clients. The role will manage a client caseload whilst collaborating with stakeholders and other healthcare services to ensure the specialised care is delivered to the highest possible standard. The role will support adults and children in their own homes and/or community settings.

The Complex Care Nurse must demonstrate the skills and knowledge to:

• Be accountable for and lead on the clinical components of care delivery.
• Support in the assessment, mobilisation and implementation of complex care clients to support with business growth.
• Regularly risk assess individual client needs.
• Provide evidence based clinical expertise and advice relating to care-planning and delivery across the pathway and evaluate outcomes.
• Attend meetings and/or liaise with MDT, commissioners, case managers and clients etc to build and manage clinical caseload.
• Act as a role model and leader for all members of staff.
• Facilitate and deliver an ongoing programme of clinical knowledge/skills-training and competency assessments to non-registered members to enable them to competently deliver care with minimal supervision.
• Be responsible and accountable for the delegation of clinical healthcare tasks required for clients to maintain a quality of life within the community.
• Maintain high standards and proactively manage quality improvement, clinical risks, safety concerns and complaints relating to client case load.
• Drive best practice in order to ensure high quality care.
• Promote compliance and adherence to internal policies and standards.
• Keep up with national standards and requirements surrounding clinical services.
• Assist the branch in identifying best practice in regard to client’s complexity to ensure delivery of safe and high-quality care.
• Commitment to improving client/family experience at every step of the care pathway.
• Identify, develop and maintain new business streams to support with growth of clinical services.

Professional / Clinical Leadership

• Take responsibility to ensure the highest standards of professional care are attained in providing safe, high-quality care.
• Lead on clinical decision making relating to complex care across the complex client pathway – as per policy, from the point of referral to implementation and evaluation of care delivery.
• Participate in home visits to assess client’s needs and care preferences.
• Evaluate care provision, risk assess and support/train/assess unregistered carers.
• Have overall responsibility for a group of clients including a specialist caseload, with an ability to lead the team in areas related to complex care provision.
• Develop and maintain skills required to risk assess referrals and lead in planning client focused complex care packages.
• Provide specific branches with professional advice, direction and support relating to the allocation and suitability of non-registered members to provide safe care to clients.
• Provide direct care and support to clients in exceptional circumstances when required to support continuity of care.
• Provide safeguarding expertise and advice for branches.
• Promptly raise concerns and work with relevant agencies, as required.
• Ensure that both verbal and written client reports meet the NMC standards and policies regarding record keeping and confidentiality.
• Responsible for ensuring that national and local safeguarding requirements and standards e.g. NICE guidelines, RCN recommendations are adhered to.
• Escalate concerns and/or unresolved issues to line manager.
• Using technology to improve communication, collaboration and delivery of care.
• Identify and support the development of new business streams.
• Adhere to the NMC’s and RCN’s professional guidance at all times and demonstrate the skills, knowledge attributes to enable working within your professional scope of education and training.
• Deliver classroom training to develop the knowledge and skills of professional carers in routine care delivery, long-term conditions, specific disabilities and complex healthcare tasks.
• Provide competency assessments and maintain competencies for professional carer providing delegated healthcare tasks e.g. PEG feeding, use of buccal midazolam.
• Support the ongoing development of professional carers by highlighting examples of good practice as well as responding to areas where improvements are required.
• Contribute to creating a learning environment which ensures carers develop and maintain the knowledge and skills required to provide safe high-quality care.
• Contribute to developing and maintaining clinical competency frameworks in line with best practice recommendations.
• Ensuring you are working in line with the most up to date knowledge and skills, as well as educational resources, to deliver clinical training to staff members.
• Where any known or perceived deficit exists, putting in place remedial actions and escalating concerns to the regional clinical lead and head of clinical services.

Leadership and Management

• Work in partnership, maintain good relationships and communicate effectively, with all branch staff members.
• Work in a collaborative manner with other agencies to ensure a seamless delivery of care to families.
• Take responsibility for maintaining professional registration and ensuring continuous professional development identified through appraisal/clinical supervisions.
• Ability to adapt and multitask to manage competing priorities and workloads safely.

Quality

• Ensure that ‘best practices’ are continuously maintained in delivering client care.
• Develop audit skills and contribute to auditing of complex care clients and ensure that the results of the audits lead to appropriate action being undertaken by all branch staff and members to improve care.
• Contribute to the evaluation of changes introduced to clinical care.
• Ensure clinical incidents, adverse events and complaints are correctly reported, recorded and escalated in a timely manner.
• Contribute to the investigations and responses relating to adverse events and/or complaints and ensure actions are implemented, lessons learnt and shared, and improvements to practice and services implemented.
• Promote compliance with Prestige Nursing & Care policies and guidelines e.g. health and safety, infection prevention and control etc.
• Escalate concerns to line manager to minimise negative outcomes promptly.

Business continuity

• Share best practice and appropriate market intelligence with team colleagues to ensure that clients and customer expectations are met and/or exceeded.
• Instil confidence across the branch network to deliver and increase complex care business.
• Create ongoing and robust partnership working with client groups.
• Attend and contribute to internal and external meetings and forums as required and necessary to carry out role.

General Responsibilities

• Occasionally support with the day-to-day responsibilities of the branch team when required.
• Be a champion for internal customer service.
• Do any other reasonable things your manager needs you to do.
• Travel to visit clients and professional carers.
• Flexible working to facilitate supporting clients and professional carers needs.

Accountabilities

• Demonstrate proficiency as a registered nurse.
• Ensure improvements surrounding quality and safety relating to clinical care provision.
• Ensure clinical quality, best practice and safe delivery of clinical care.
• Ensure positive client experience.
• Ensure safe, competent non-registered workforce.

Person Specification

Essential

• Registered Nurse with NMC with active PIN.
• Minimum 2 years clinical nursing experience including community or hospital setting.
• Management of clinical risk management and individualised, person-centred care planning.
• Experience of safeguarding adults and children.
• Effective communication skills – verbal and written.
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team – self-motivated.
• Effective people management skills.
• Ability to negotiate, influence, elevate and seek advice.
• Experience in interpreting and analysing data and meet deadlines.
• Excellent IT and presentation skills.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the theory and application of clinical governance.
• Ability to work autonomously and with initiative.
• Can do approach.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.
• Valid UK driving licence and access to a car is highly desirable, however other travel arrangements are possible.
• Demonstrate good leadership skills.
• A commitment to equal opportunities and diversity.
• Symmetry between personal and organisational values.

Desirable

• Recognised teaching qualification/experience.
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources.
• Coaching and mentoring skills, teaching qualification.
• Evidence of success in leading/managing significant and sustained change.
• Experience in interpreting and analysing data and meet deadlines.

Competencies & Behaviours

• Professional manner.
• Positive attitude.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Effective communication on multiple levels.
• Able to multitask, co-ordinate and adapt to prioritise and workload.
• Advocate for clinical excellence and high standards of care.

Your benefits will include:

• Competitive salary.
• 28 days annual leave (including bank holidays) increasing every year by 1 to the maximum of 33 days over 5 years’ service.
• An additional paid day off for your birthday.
• Family friendly policies designed to offer you more support, flexibility, and additional time off when you most need it.
• Reward and recognition programmes to acknowledge value, loyalty and going the extra mile.
• Annual leave purchase (ALP) scheme to provide more time off during the year.
• Cycle benefit scheme to support healthier more sustainable travel choices.
• Blue Light Card & Health Service Discounts to help save money on your spending.
• Wellbeing support via the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) confidential phone line and online support and resources available to you and your loved ones 24/7.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your potential.

In line with CQC & Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake enhanced DBS/PVG, right to work, reference and employment history checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice. You may be asked to provide your employment details through HMRC. Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines. As a private provider of home care in the UK, Prestige Nursing & Care is not affiliated to the NHS, as such we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of any employment visa at this time. All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair and balanced way. Prestige Nursing & Care colleagues are responsible for promoting equal opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any client or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, identity or any other perceived difference. We reserve the right to close this position early.