Senior Acute Care Nurse

Operational hours are over 24 hours, 7 days a week. Provide a high standard of clinical care, ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools. To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients' care, where appropriate. Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk with comprehensive Clinical Risk Formulation To assess carers and families needs and develop, implement and review programs of support for carers and families. Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm. To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making with other professionals and agencies. To maintain accurate and timely clinical records and to coordinate and monitor those of the team. To adhere to N.M.C. or other professional codes of conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation. To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management and audit.