Are you a Registered Nurse or an AHP with an interest in digital care technology and would like to utilise your clinical skills to support a teaching/training role in care homes as an autonomous practitioner?

The Care Home Support Team are enthusiastic committed healthcare professionals that have built excellence working relationships with the care homes in the Borough of Richmond. The team are proud of the service that they have developed and its expansion in improving proactive care for residents, hospital avoidance and for the support and training provided to care home staff.

The Care Home Support Team in Richmond have an exciting new opportunity for you to join our dynamic team as a clinical and digital practice educator. You will be providing training to support the embedding of remote monitoring and other clinical and digital care technology in care homes. Using your knowledge and skills of good clinical practice to train care home staff in clinical education and how to recognise early signs of deterioration using the NEWS2/RESTORE2 framework and how new technology can support this.

We have multiple digital integration projects currently in implementation with care homes. our aim is to reduce avoidable LAS call outs/hospital admissions working in partnership with the SWL ICB and PCN's. You will identify barriers, seek to understand the challenges care homes present and identify solutions to good digital integration and clinical education.

Main duties of the job

• Support care homes with changing clinical practice to integrate core Bluetooth enabled remote monitoring
  
• To support the increase of care homes signing up to the remote monitoring project
  
• Provide support to care home staff in achieving appropriate clinical competencies
  
• To embed remote monitoring, assessment escalation and communication tools into practice
  
• To have an excellent understanding of the Restore 2 process to support teaching
  
• Increase digital inclusion and mitigate against digital exclusion and inequality by addressing barriers in the care homes such as access to digital equipment, skills and confidence using digital equipment and a lack of motivation to change current processes and day to day clinical activities.
  
• To provide clinical training to care home staff

About us

Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It's personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It's the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible. Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. It's simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services.

In 2018, we were named'Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction'by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.

We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.

Infection Control

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.

Job description

Job responsibilities

******Please see attached the full Job Description and the Person Specification to support your application.******

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Diploma or Degree in relevant health profession (i.e. Adult Nursing or AHP)
• Current professional registration (NMC, HCPC etc.)

Qualifications

Desirable

• Teaching qualification or willing to work towards one
• Mentoring or coaching qualification

Experience

Essential

• . Experience of teaching and facilitation of clinical skills in healthcare settings
• Experience of giving formal presentations

Desirable

• Experience of working in a care home setting

Qualifications

Essential

• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
• Assessment and Clinical Decision-Making Skills

Desirable

• Leadership course

Experience

Essential

• Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working)
• Mentoring and assessing students
• Managing and working effectively as part of a team
• Experience of giving formal presentations

Desirable

• Experience of using research and other evidence to inform practice
• Experience of audit
• Performance management and staff development through the appraisal process.
• Experience of lone working and decision making in the community environment.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Lone working, problem solving and decision making. Ability to work independently in community setting
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to the HRCH values (Care, Respect, Communication)
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally, in writing and electronically to individuals and groups.
• Ability to motivate staff to embed change in practice
• Good IT skills, including use of Excel, presentation software, electronic patient record systems and digital health solutions
• Ability to teach other professionals and members of the MDT.
• Ability to build effective working relationships at all levels.
• Ability to act as a catalyst to promote change and demonstrate innovative practice.
• Ability to work with a diverse workforce and demonstrate an awareness of equal opportunities in delivery of patient care.

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of local and national policy governing the delivery of adults and older people's Health and Social care.
• Knowledge and understanding of audit and application to practice

personnel qualities

Essential

• Self - motivated,shows Enthusiasm and passion for teaching
• Good interpersonal skills
• Willing to be flexible and adapt to meet the requirements of the role.

other

Essential

• Car driver/owner with current full valid UK driving licence

Employer details

Employer name

Hounslow and Richmond Community NHS Healthcare Trust

Address

Centre House,

68 Sheen Lane

London

SW14 8LP

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

779-NN-6497137-A&C-Z