Accountable to:    Director of Nursing & Operations

Salary:                     £28,000 - £32,500 per annum

Job Summary:

Support the Clinical Care Co-ordinator in providing  effective clinical and managerial leadership to nursing, other professional and support staff ensuring the effective delivery at all times of high quality care and responding to changes in patient needs and service level requirements as appropriate.

Ensure that care delivery within the team meets the appropriate professional codes, i.e. NMC and HPC, and standards and is in line with MediHome's vision and clinical standards.

Facilitate effective communications with all disciplines, at all levels within hospitals and within MediHome Ltd.

Ensure that activity levels and quality standards within allocated site/teams are maintained. This will be achieved through pro-active management of the MediHome site team and by establishing professional and productive working relationships with NHS staff within the allocated trusts

Participate in on-call duties

Principal Accountabilities:

Assess, co-ordinate, plan, implement and evaluate the clinical care of patients

Demonstrate a pro-active, creative and problem solving approach to the planning and organisation of the service in conjunction with the Clinical Care Co-ordinator and other MediHome directors and senior managers

Ensure that nursing documentation is maintained to MediHome's standards and implement audits of records to measure and evaluate all aspects of clinical care

Promote and maintain positive working relationships with medical staff and within the MediHome team to ensure positive outcomes for each patient episode

On a regular basis, in conjunction with the Clinical Care Co-ordinator, brief MediHome managers and colleagues on the performance of the contract site against standard indicators, including quality, patient satisfaction, activity and workforce

Ensure in conjunction with the Clinical Care Co-ordinator that all material and human resources within MediHome are utilised effectively to deliver quality care at all times including effective utilisation of duty rotas in planning staffing to meet the demands of the service

To support the Clinical Care-Co-ordinator in the implementation of an effective individual performance review programme for nursing and support staff

Ensure staff absence/sickness and leave is monitored and managed according to MediHome policies

Participate in the process of the recruitment and selection of staff

Ensure that all new staff have appropriate induction and orientation

Develop a management style that promotes a working environment based on openness and honesty

Be personally responsible for own actions

Adhere to the appropriate Professional Council Code of Practice at all times.

Ensure that confidential information is not disclosed about MediHome Ltd, including information about staff and patients, to any unauthorised member of staff, or to anyone outside the employment of MediHome who is not authorised to such information.

This job description is intended to reflect, in outline, the responsibilities of the post-holder, which may change over time with the corporate and local business needs of MediHome Ltd. It will be subject to periodic review, as a minimum annually.

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