BROTHERS OF CHARITY SERVICES IRELAND – WEST REGION
PERMANENT PART TIME STAFF NURSE/ENHANCED NURSE
SKYLARK SERVICES, ATHENRY, CO. GALWAYJOB REF: 130/2024E
A panel may be formed as a result of this process from which subsequent Staff Nurse appointments within the Skylark Services may be made over the next 6 months.

Location:
Skylark Services Athenry are a community-based day and residential service in the Athenry town area of Galway. We provide community based day, respite and residential services to adults with varying support needs based on personal outcome measures. Our focus is to form a relationship / partnership with each individual and their family to support people to be valued citizens in their local community and to have ordinary life experiences. We wish to create opportunities for people who use our service to have valued social roles in their communities and to have the chance to form real friendships.

Reporting/Responsible To:
Team Leader/Service Coordinator/Area Manager.

Working With:
People supported and their families/Team Leader/Multidisciplinary staff/Service Management.

Qualifications:
A current Live Register Certificate from the NMBI (An Bord Altranais), RNID or RGN qualification is essential.
Candidates must have a current full clean manual Irish driving licence; this is an essential requirement of the post.

Experience:
Candidates must have relevant experience and an appreciation of the responsibilities of the
post and issues affecting the everyday lives of individuals with an Intellectual Disability.

Skills:
Candidates must demonstrate:

• Good judgement, discretion and confidentiality.
• The ability to communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms, and to communicate sensitively with family members and work with them for the best outcomes.
• Creative problem solving skills.
• The ability to work independently and seek support from multi-disciplinary colleagues as appropriate.
• Patience, flexibility, creativity and eagerness to become involved in a range of activities.
• Ability to educate other staff and family members in positive health promotion needs.
• The successful candidate will be required to co-operate in a team environment with a person-centred philosophy, participate in person-centred planning, individual reviews, team meetings, attend and participate in training courses, and actively contribute to team based performance management.

Working Hours:
21 hours per week is based on a 7 day duty roster. The successful candidate will be required
to work days, evenings, weekends, public holidays, sleepovers and night duty to meet service needs. The Brothers of Charity Services model of service is based on Personal Outcome Measures requiring employees to be flexible in their working hours to provide a quality service delivery for each individual.

The Brothers of Charity Services model of service is based on Personal Outcome Measures requiring employees to be flexible in their working hours to provide a quality service delivery for each individual.

Annual Leave:
24 days pro rata per annum. Appropriate service related leave will be granted after 5 and 10 years service respectively.

Remuneration:
Staff Nurse - €35,068 x 11 increments - €51,263 pro rata per annum (on a pro-rata basis). Long Service Increment €52,790 per annum (on a pro-rata basis) is granted after 3 years on the maximum of the scale.

Enhanced Nurse - €41,952 x 7 increments - €52,948 per annum (on a pro-rata basis). Long Service Increment €54,499 per annum (on a pro-rata basis) is granted after 3 years on the maximum of the scale.

The successful candidate will be granted incremental credit subject to satisfactory verification of previous relevant nursing service.

Additional payments will be made for weekends, public holidays, and sleep-ins and night duty when worked.

The Brothers of Charity Services model of service is based on Personal Outcome Measures requiring employees to be flexible in their working hours to provide a quality service delivery for each individual.

Tenure:
This post is permanent part-time and pensionable.

Probation:
A probationary period of nine months from the date of appointment applies to the post. The
employment may be terminated at any time during the probationary period should the
employer find that the appointee is unsuitable to continue employment. The probation period
may be extended at the Employer’s discretion.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Brothers of Charity model of service is based on Personal Outcome Measures requiring employees to be flexible and creative in their approach and in their working hours to provide a quality service delivery for each individual.

Specific Conditions

• Staff must have a positive attitude towards working with persons with an intellectual disability and help to ensure that they lead as normal and enjoyable a life as possible.
• Staff must treat each person with an intellectual disability as an individual and at all times acknowledge and respect the rights and personal dignity of the person with an intellectual disability.
• Staff are required to establish and maintain relationships with adults with disabilities that are based on respect and equality and that promote their independence.

Main duties and functions:

• Develop a good working relationship with families and key people involved with the people supported by the services, as appropriate.
• Actively pursue and ensure the delivery of a person centred service, through the delivery of Personal Outcomes. Be involved as a Key Worker and assist other team members in their role as Key Workers.
• Record and monitor outcomes and track progress.
• Be aware of and take responsibility in ensuring compliance with HIQA standards.
• Formulate and implement programmes designed for the needs of the individual, in co-operation with the multidisciplinary team as required.
• Take responsibility for the supply, storage, stock and administration of medications in accordance with the policy of the Service.
• Take part in the education and training of care assistants in responsible and safe medication management and carry out practical assessments of their competence in their area of work.
• Assist the people we support with personal banking and ensuring adherence to the National Guidelines on managing individual’s finances.
• Devise appropriate programmes of activity for the individual in line with their expressed or felt needs and desires.
• Keep appropriate records to enable full reports regarding the people supported to be available including individual person plans, personal outcomes assessments and reviews.
• Promote community integration and maximum participation for the individual.
• Supervise and direct the work of Support Workers and provide feedback and direction as required.
• Drive the service vehicle and escort the people we support on transport as required in order to meet their needs.
• Be an active member of your assigned team.
• Ensure that individual’s money is spent according to their wishes and all that appropriate records are kept of same in line with policy. Awareness of resource management is also important with the ability to achieve efficiencies in resource usage.
• Co-operate on all aspects of programmes with the staff team and the multidisciplinary team.
• Ensure that a good working relationship is fostered and maintained in the work place.
• Facilitate reporting at Individual Plan meetings and at people supported review meetings.
• Ensure that all accidents/incidents to the people supported by the services, staff or visitors or equipment are reported promptly and that all staff are made fully aware of the contents of the Safety Statement for the Centre. Record all incidents/accidents as per the AIRS system.
• Ensure that high standard of hygiene is maintained in the house’s, by carrying out household duties such as cooking, cleaning, and laundry work. Be responsible to ensure that hygiene and infection control standards are actively enforced.
• Operate within the policies and procedures of the Services at all times.
• Comply with all national regulations and standards as set down by HIQA.
• Ensure confidentiality is maintained in all matters concerning the people supported by the services including the safe storage of reports and records.
• Embrace change and take on new developments in I.T. around storage of records and inputting of data onto databases.
• Promote dignity at work and show respect to the people we support, colleagues and stakeholders in the course of duty.
• Perform such other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by the Team Manager/Deputy. The duties must be carried out in person at all times.
• As the duties and responsibilities of any post in the Services are likely to change with the ongoing need of the people supported by the services, i.e. age, level of disability, Personal Outcome Measures etc., staff are expected to have a high level of flexibility, willingness and an ability to develop new approaches to their work as the people we support needs demand.

The role of the post holder will not be limited by reference to this Job Description. It would be expected that the role will evolve as professional, structural and people supported demands change and the post holder will be expected to demonstrate flexibility skills that will facilitate
this.

Enhanced Nurse additional duties and responsibilities if applicable:
The following outline the additional roles and responsibilities incumbent on you in your new role as an Enhanced Nurse and are in addition to the duties that are outlined in your job description for your current nursing role.

1. To practice Nursing according to the Code of Professional Conduct issued by the Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann (Nursing Midwifery Board Ireland) and Professional Clinical Guidelines;
2. To work within your scope of practice and take measures to maintain and enhance the competence necessary for professional practice;
3. Complying with and adhere to all relevant policies and procedures;
4. Promoting the safety, health, welfare and social wellbeing of persons supported and respect the dignity and confidentiality of persons supported and their families;
5. Promoting persons supported advocacy and maintain persons supported privacy and dignity;
6. Performing the full range of clinical duties appropriate to your area of practice and as determined by your line manager to ensure a comprehensive nursing service is delivered to the persons supported you work with;
7. Maintaining appropriate and accurate written/electronic nursing records, person centred plans and care plans regarding person supported support in accordance with local / national / professional guidelines
8. Utilising appropriate evidence-based and recognised screening tools, risk prediction models, assessment and enhanced skills to support person supported in their home (e.g. Early Warning Scores, Falls Assessment);
9. Supporting and cooperating with the sharing of tasks as per national agreements;
10. Engaging in continuous skill acquisition and be supported as appropriate in doing so to ensure the ongoing development of the enhanced role
11. Taking responsibility for own competency and learning and development needs and actively contribute to the learning and development of the wider nursing, multi-disciplinary and primary care team
12. Completing all mandatory training as deemed necessary by the Director of Nursing, the employer and Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann (Nursing Midwifery Board Ireland);
13. Supporting the training and education of nursing students and participating in the clinical/ workplace induction of new nursing and clinical support staff (e.g. Care Assistants and other relevant grades in the ID Sector).
14. Contributing to the identification of training needs pertinent to the clinical area;
15. Developing clinical teaching skills and participating in the planning and implementation of orientation, training and teaching programmes for nursing students and other healthcare staff allocated to the service e.g. Preceptorship, mentoring and coaching.
16. Co-operating with and implement, where appropriate, strategies developed to move work to the community, including decongregation of settings;
17. Co-operate with changes arising from implementation of the recommendations of the review of nursing and non-nursing in all areas including areas and changes arising from the implementation of national policies and legislation.
18. Participating in clinical governance structures within the local / regional / national clinical governance framework;
19. Reporting complaints/ incidents and assist with the investigation of same as appropriate;
20. Facilitating and supervise the delegation of appropriate tasks to other clinical support grades as part of the nursing team;
21. Co-operating with the implementation of the agreed new structures developed to support Integrated Care Organisations and Government policy in the sector.
22. Supporting the implementation of all recommendations from the HCA review including development of appropriate policies and guidelines to promote and sustain delegation;
23. Co-operating with the introduction of ICT systems including those to support the Safe Nurse Staffing Framework, or any agreed alternative as may apply in the ID sector, and input, utilise and analyse the data;
24. Collecting and input data on nursing metrics or other metrics relevant to persons supported;
25. Ensuring that records are protected and managed as per HSE / local policy and in accordance with relevant legislation;
26. Working closely with colleagues across health services in order to provide a seamless service delivery to the persons supported as part of integration;
27. Participating in and contributing to and providing data as required to any verification process at local, regional or national level for the purposes of documenting and assuring delivery of the range of duties specified in this Contract;
28. Undertake any other duties in accordance with your scope of practice as may be assigned by the Assistant Director of Nursing, Clinical Nurse Manager II or Employer.
The role of the post holder will not be limited by reference to this Job Description. It is expected that the role will evolve as professional, structural and people supported demands change, with the post holder being expected to demonstrate flexibility skills that will facilitate this.
Informal enquiries to Orla Haddigan, Area Manager on 087-1454792
Informal enquiries to James Noone Service Co-Ordinator on 087-6568796

Closing date for receipt of completed application forms/CV’s on-line is 5pm, Thursday 3rd October 2024.

Interviews for this post will be held on 17th October 2024.

The Brothers of Charity Services Ireland is an equal opportunities employer.