National Clinical Lead Nurse - Adults & Safeguarding

Job Introduction

NATIONAL CLINICAL LEAD NURSE

Location: based in any location within the Northern or Eastern regions with intermittent travel to head office in Epsom.

We want to make life better for more people. If you are as passionate about good quality care as we are and you want a role where your skills will make a real difference, this is a great opportunity.  You can help us to grow and develop in an exciting business that puts people front and centre of everything we do.

Prestige Nursing & Care, part of the Sodexo Group, has provided home care for over 75 years and we have 35 local offices in England and Scotland. Our aim is to lead the care industry by providing high quality, personalised and specialist services to our clients. 

As part of the National Clinical Team you will be responsible for overseeing safe compassionate care for our adult clients, including those with complex needs. This role has scope to contribute to improving outcomes for individual clients, developing the nursing team and advancing innovation in adult social care.

We are looking for a dynamic and independent professional Nurse with solid leadership and management experience and a flexible, can-do attitude to join us as our National Clinical Lead Nurse and can be based in the East or North Regions.

We offer a supportive working environment with lots of potential for learning and development and a friendly, agile, and flexible working culture.

ROLE PURPOSE:

To effectively co-ordinate and oversee the activities of the clinical and care staff to ensure delivery of safe, effective, and compassionate care to adult service users within Prestige Nursing and Care.

• To promote high standards of client centred care and the professional development of staff who provide care and support to adults.
• Support all activities necessary to ensure that Prestige Nursing & Care Ltd meets its responsibilities to safeguard/protect adults with care and support needs. The national lead nurse will have in-depth knowledge of health welfare, vulnerability, and abuse and of the systems and processes that needs to be in place for the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of people at risk of harm.  The national lead nurse will have the ability to promote good professional care and safeguarding practice.
• To develop clinical practice and professional competence both individually and within the network of regional nurses.
• To work and liaise with client’s, their families and representatives and members of their multidisciplinary teams.

This role is critical to developing and contributing to quality of care in services for our clients and early intervention strategies, ensuring that cases of suspected or actual abuse or safeguarding concerns are referred to the appropriate people. 

The Clinical Lead Nurse for Adults and Safeguarding will ensure that safeguarding issues are part of the organisations clinical governance system by reporting on safeguarding risks to the organisation and demonstrate how these are being mitigated.

If you feel you have the skills and expertise for this role and would like to find out more please apply on line to start your journey with Prestige Nursing & Care.

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Role Responsibility

Professional and clinical leadership:

• To maintain current registration with the NMC through revalidation and compliance with NMC: The Code, Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives
• To always behave with integrity and dignity in support of Senior Leadership Team at PNC
• To promote effective teamwork through good communication and role modelling.
• To ensure that the dignity, safety, and well-being of our clients are respected at all times.
• To liaise with the Operations managers, branch teams and nursing staff to ensure appropriate nursing cover is facilitated at all times.
• To be responsible and accountable for overseeing assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care for adult clients, demonstrating research-based practice.
• To support and provide advice on clinical assessments for adults with complex care needs.
• To supervise and participate in giving skilled care and treatments meeting the highest standards according to current accepted practice.
• To communicate effectively with client’s and their families, PNC staff, members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• To respond promptly and advise in clinical emergency situations.
• To develop links with local hospitals with regard to supporting continuity of care.
• To promote and advise on the promotion of health and prevention of illness.
• To observe the clinical policies, procedures and standards within the PNC and ensure that all registered nurses and professional carers follow these procedures.
• To develop, monitor and review policies relating to adult clinical care in accordance with the national regulators; Care Inspectorate/Care Quality Commission and maintain compliance with the Fundamental Standards of Care outlined in The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activity) Regulations 2014.

 Safeguarding:

• To lead and advise on the delivery of care standards and safeguarding for adult clients across the business.
• To ensure that systems and processes are regularly monitored, evaluation and reviewed to minimise risk.
• To ensure Incidents are appropriately recorded according to Prestige Nursing & Care’s policies and procedures.
• To represent Prestige Nursing & Care Ltd on safeguarding practices where required to do so.

Leadership and Management:

• To attend strategy meetings and to support staff who are required to attend.
• To identify and escalate any practice areas or systems, which may place the organisation at risk and where support from the Local Authority, Safeguarding Partnership Board may be required.
• To complete clinical supervisions with  Nurses within the organisation.

Quality:

• Contribute to the development and review of policies and procedures related to the care of adults with complex needs.
• Actively participate in Prestige Nursing and care's clinical governance and quality assurance processes
• To establish, monitor and maintain the professional standards of the Nursing Service.
• Disseminate new and innovative practice, updates to national guidance and quality care initiatives to colleagues.

• To ensure systems and processes in place are compliant with primary legislation, national, regional, and local government strategy relating to delivery of care and safeguarding adults.
• To comply with information governance procedures and observe the codes of confidentiality to clients and colleagues.
• To participate in service improvement projects or development that contribute to the modernisation of client services, providing both professional and clinical advice, as necessary.

General Responsibilities:

• To be available to provide on call services for out of core office hours.
• To manage and prioritise own workload.
• To undertake other duties from time to time. This may include providing cover for other members of the team where necessary.
• To ensure professional behaviour, appearance and attitudes are always maintained.
• To participate and assist in recruitment, induction, and orientation of new staff.
• To develop a reflective style of nursing practice leading to an annual performance review incorporating self-assessment.
• Employees must be aware of the responsibilities placed upon them under the Health & Safety at Work Act (1974) to ensure that the agreed safety procedures are carried out to maintain a safe environment for employees and visitors.
• Employees are responsible for ensuring that they assist in the implementation of PNC’s Equality and Diversity policy by:
  • not discriminating in the course of their employment against fellow employees, clients, suppliers, or members of the public with whom they come into contact.
  • Not inducing or attempting to induce others to practice unlawful discrimination and reporting any discriminating action to the hospital management.
• Accept personal responsibility for compliance with infection control policies and procedures at any time when providing direct care and whenever required for other activities.

The Ideal Candidate

KEY ATTRIBUTES:

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Have excellent communication skills both orally and in writing.
• Competent IT Skills
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in sensitive situations, knowing when to share information and to accept responsibility for decision making.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Package Description

WHAT WE OFFER IN RETURN:

• A competitive salary
• 28 days annual leave (includes Bank Holidays) increasing every year by 1 to the maximum of 33 days over 5 years' service
• An additional day off for your Birthday
• Cycle to Work scheme for our Head Office, Regional and Branch staff
• Long Service Awards
• Work Place Pension
• Employee assistance programme (EAP) - confidential phone line and online support and resources available to you and your loved ones 24/7
• Supportive working environment with ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• A friendly, agile and flexible working culture.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing & Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process