Clinical Nurse Lead - Prevention of FallsinGillinghaminGillinghamPUBLISHED WED 30 OCT 2024

Clinical Nurse Lead - Prevention of Falls

Division: Corporate

Care Group: Corporate Nursing

Band: 8a

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum

Interview Date: 25th November 2024

We are recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Lead - Prevention of Fallswho shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

In this post, the post holder will act as a clinical expert and be instrumental for ensuring that an integrated falls strategy is continued at Medway NHS Foundation Trust which will meet National and Local drivers in reducing falls and falls with harm within the hospital and local community.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

About us

Lead the Falls Service across specified areas of responsibility to ensure a unified approach to care, consistent standards of care and patient access.

To lead on the development of appropriate policies and standards relating to services auditing results and responses.

To review local services for falls and fractures to identify gaps and to establish a baseline for service delivery, including the identification of multi-agency resources currently supporting Falls and fractures

Influence the care provided by other Health and Social care professionals through provision of guidance and involvement in formal teaching

Demonstrates a highly developed specialist knowledge within own discipline underpinned by current evidence-based practice acting as a reference for colleagues and other agencies.

To actively engage with clinicians and all key stakeholders and to foster good working relationships to ensure effective partnership approach to achieving multi agency outcomes

To coordinate and manage the ambulatory falls care pathway, triaging patients onto an appropriate clinic or activity programme.

The post holder is responsible for supporting the senior sister charge nurse and multi-professional teams In the day to day delivery of care, ensuring optimal high quality fall prevention and falls management is delivered and continuously monitored.