Description:
To work as a part of the Adult Services team supporting service users and their families/carers within the region, providing excellent professional, skilled and effective person centred, evidence based nursing care.
Overview of Duties & Responsibilities:
- Deliver a high standard of nursing care to service users within a best practice/evidence based framework.
- Day to day management of designated caseload including planning, assessment and intervention using researched based practice.
- Be visible and accessible to service users, families and carers and work in partnership with them to ensure efficient, effective and caring services.
- Develop collaborative, needs based care plans, through assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation.
- Ability to assess plan and respond to the nursing needs of service users with epilepsy, respiratory difficulties and other relevant presenting conditions.
- To comply with legal requirements for the safe storage and administration of medicines and other clinical products.
- To promote and deliver services within the ethos and philosophy of Enable Ireland.
- To promote the health, welfare and social wellbeing of service users in the service.
- Be aware of, and comply with, the principles of clinical governance including quality, risk, and health and safety.
- Recognise potential risk and risk situations and act accordingly in conjunction with Enable Ireland policies.
- To establish and maintain good working relationships with colleagues, families and other key stakeholders.
- To organise and participate in clinics held by the rehabilitation consultant.
- To establish and maintain appropriate working relationships with other organisations, voluntary agencies etc.
- Participation in regular team meetings and other meetings as appropriate.
- Undertake the key worker role as appropriate.
- Maintain awareness of professional literature, current developments in nursing through self-education, training and professional development.
- Participate in clinical and line management supervision and performance management.
- Maintaining appropriate, accurate and up to date written records and reports regarding care of service users, in accordance with professional guidelines and Enable Ireland information management policy.
- To maintain a high standard of professional behaviour and be accountable for practice.
- To work within the scope of practice and take measures to develop and maintain the competence necessary for professional practice.
- To work collaboratively with the Adult Services Manager and CNMII.
- Development of and participation in training programmes for service user’s colleagues and carers/families, where required.
- To carry out vaccination of both service owners/users and staff as required.
- Perform any other duties appropriate to the position from time to time.