Lead Nursing Assistant & Activity Coordinator in Grimsby inGrimsby PUBLISHED TUE 14 JAN 2025 Jump to job information section

This is an exciting opportunity to join the expanding Navigo family, working as a Lead Nursing Assistant and Activity Coordinator at the inpatient lodges. Whether you're looking to start a new career, or you already have experience supporting people with health & social needs, we want to hear from hard working, kind, caring and compassionate people who want to make a difference to the lives of others.

Our teams work across the locality in a holistic, person-centred and trauma-informed approach to deliver services that we'd be happy for our own families to use.

The Lead Nursing Assistant will work with the Clinical Lead and Occupational Therapist in supervising the day-to-day delivery of the programme of care for the inpatients on the unit. The expectation is that they will be proficient, competent and require minimum supervision in delivering high quality care that is evidence based. They will ensure that planned care is delivered safely and effectively by the team and focussed on achieving the outcomes detailed in patients care plans. They will complement the work of the multi-disciplinary team in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of inpatients.

Our services operate 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

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To assist in the co-ordination of patients packages of care and liaison with other agencies (with support from senior colleagues)

Assess and monitor the health and wellbeing needs of inpatients as directed by the multidisciplinary team

Ensure a comprehensive and diverse activity planner that is delivered consistently and meaningfully, including psychoeducation, meaningful use of time, skills building and activities of daily living

Provide assurance of Nursing Assistant engagement with care plans and risk management plans, and provide coaching, training and support in order to achieve this

Ensure Nursing Assistants are appropriately skilled in respect of working in an appropriate manner, accessing and understanding patient notes, risk management, writing patient notes, using systems, engaging service users, working safely with service users, delivering on care planned activity

Undertake daily review of service users health and social care needs as required against the care plan and take appropriate action to achieve the planned aims

To support the documentation, monitoring and review of a range of specialist therapeutic interventions for service users

To deliver holistic care to service users and their families using evidence-based interventions and assessment tools, seeking advice/assistance from senior colleagues as required.

To monitor, evaluate, and modify individual and/or group interventions and activities in order to ensure effectiveness and to improve service user therapeutic outcomes. This requires observational skills, attention to detail and the ability to seek support/advice from senior colleagues as required.

To liaise with the multidisciplinary team, care co-ordinators, General Practitioners and any other relevant parties involved, as per NICE guidelines and local policy

Advise service users, their family members and professional colleagues on appropriate lifestyle changes to an individuals physical and social environments which will promote enablement and independence

To participate in inpatient reviews involving service users, their families and other professionals and agencies

To identify when a carers assessment is required and to ensure referral on to appropriate agencies and support networks (with support from senior colleagues)

To act as an advocate for our service users and ensure that their voice is heard throughout their care

To assist in maintaining the safe administration and storage of medication in accordance with Navigo policies and procedures. The post holder will need to demonstrate the proficiencies for medication administration as set out in the Navigo Medication Management policy

Prompt, enable and encourage service users to be compliant with their medication regime and support junior staff to do this under the supervision and direction of nursing staff. This may involve the use of concomitant aids, the collection of medication from community or hospital pharmacies and the delivering of medication to service users

To complete audits of medication & medication care plans and support in the assessment of individuals.

It may be necessary that some weekend and night working may be required on occasion

To deliver and/or ensure that evidence-based therapeutic groups occur at each allocated time throughout the day and that daily one-to-one sessions with patients are conducted; ensuring that these are planned collaboratively with the service users and the wider multidisciplinary team

To ensure that Nursing Assistants are adhering to policy, process and reasonable instruction, including in regard to protected time, documentation, observations and the delivery of care

To provide clinical and line management supervision to the nursing assistant workforce, ensuring this is provided in line with policy. This includes planned and ad-hoc supervision, including managerial supervision, live supervision and peer supervision

To be the lead in physical health interventions including NEWS2, phlebotomy and ECGs, both in ensuring patients have received the required monitoring and ensuring the nursing assistant workforce is appropriately trained and skilled to deliver such interventions

To be the lead nursing assistant on shift each day, in charge of the nursing assistant workforce, directing and supporting nursing assistants on shift and addressing matters accordingly

To ensure audit and ordering of medication, equipment, tools and resources as appropriate