Specialist Nurse – Physical Disability Rehabilitation

Job Description

Support the Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine and act as liaison with his multi-disciplinary clinical team

Be responsible for nursing assessment, triage and providing nursing care to patients, this will include pre and post major limb amputation and associated disorders

Responsible for medicines management, wound care, AED, anaphylactic provision and infection control

Demonstrate an advanced ability to apply complex skills and knowledge commensurate to a higher level of professional practice

Provide specialist advise and guidance, education and support to patients, carers, medical and nursing staff, Allied Health Care Professionals (AHPs) and voluntary agencies

Facilitate multi professional and inter sectoral collaboration, working across acute, community and voluntary sectors

Responsible for planning, delivering and sign posting to other agencies, evaluating the personalised health and wellbeing care needs of patients, in line with the Trust’s Values & Nursing & Midwifery Council Professional Framework goals example: personal hygiene and comfort, early recognition and management of acutely ill patients, safe transportation, wound dressings, removal of sutures/clips, compression hosiery, psychological and spiritual support

Evaluates patients, assisting in the Prosthetic Service clinics

Actively involved in supporting Therapy Support Assistant and Students

Balancing all aspects of the job role, being flexible and responsive to competing demands

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every day

We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the future

To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

Ensure the effective and smooth delivery of the nursing service within the Services for all patients with lower and upper limb amputation and/or deficiency

Promote a safe environment for patients within the clinical settings

Be responsible for reporting effectively (both written and verbal) on the care and condition of patients and where appropriate, initiate any action that may be required, maintaining client confidentiality at all times, e.g. safeguarding

Be responsible for the triage of all services referrals, planned preventative maintenance reviews and those seeking advice on stump management

Be integral to the assessment of primary patients attending the Services, agreeing Care Plans with the patients and keeping contemporaneous records, both physical and electronic (ELMs)

Offer patient advice on a range of matters including smoking cessation, management of substances use/misuse, healthy living – signposting to other support services as necessary

Communicate via telephone and face-to-face with patients and carers, on a daily basis, some of which display severe challenging behaviour and to assist with personal care

Actively maintain relationships and liaise with colleagues, hospital staff, GP’s, community nurses, AHP’s, care managers, Social Services and any other external agency, to ensure the provision of an effective nursing service is maintained

To take an active role in all clinical audit activities as a member of the Clinical Team, including the Inter Regional Audit Group (IRPAG)

Participate in delivering Services organised training sessions for external AHP’s and onsite training delivery from associated organisations and products Webinar sessions

Support health care professionals and students visiting the Services on placement

Be conversant with Nursing and Midwifery Council Advisory documents: ‘The Code of Professional Conduct, Administration of Drugs and the Guidelines for Professional Conduct

Undertake role of Lead Link for Infection Control and Medicines Management

Responsible for monitoring diabetic clients and liaising with external agencies

Undertake wound assessment, liaising with external agencies to enable effective wound management

Ensure clinical equipment is maintained, liaising with the Lead Specialist Equipment Co-Ordinator for Medical Devices Management, EME, etc.

Manage FP10’s, dressings, drugs and associated supplies, liaising with the Business Administration Hub for orders to be placed

Undertake, and maintain compliance with, all mandatory training and seek opportunities to support own continual professional development (CPD), maintaining knowledge of new developments and concepts, particularly related to Tissue Viability

Be a member of the Nurse Amputee Network group (35 members)

Adhere to Trust policies and procedures in the delivery of care and contribute to ongoing review and implementation of new policies, practices and procedures by keeping professionally updated