Job Descriptions
Location:
Riach Services operates a range of services including day,
residential, training, education, employment opportunities, Individualised
services, and leisure activities which are geographically dispersed though the
West Sector Adult Services. We strive to provide an excellent
service, integrating the community as much as possible into the daily lives of
the people supported.
We wish to recruit an innovative, creative, motivated, visionary
person who will relish the opportunity to assist in achieving this vision. We are looking for an individual who will be
flexible and adapt to the needs of particular individuals they support and are
open to change and aim to provide a safe, secure environment where individuals
will participate in community and leisure activities, make choices and enjoy a
lifestyle that fulfils their potential and expectations with opportunity for
new experiences.
Reporting/Responsible To:
Team Leader/ Service Co-ordinator / Area Manager
Working With:
People supported and their families/Team Leader/Multidisciplinary
staff/Service
Management.
Qualifications:
A current Live Register Certificate from An Bord Altranais, RNID/RPN
qualification is an
advantage. Candidates must
have a current full clean driving licence as this is an essential
requirement of the post.
Experience:
Experience working with individuals with an intellectual disability
and individuals with challenging behaviour is desirable. Full training will be
provided.
Skills:
The successful candidate must have:
- Good judgement, discretion
and confidentiality.
- The ability to communicate
clearly, sensitively, and effectively in both written and verbal forms,
and to communicate with family members and work with them for the best
outcome for the person supported.
- Creative problem solving
skills.
- The ability to work
independently while recognising when to seek support from
interdisciplinary colleagues as appropriate.
- Patience, flexibility,
creativity and eagerness to become involved in a range of activities.
- The ability to educate and
upskill colleagues 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:
75 hours a fortnight based on a 7 day duty roster. The Brothers of Charity 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 per annum. Appropriate service related leave will be granted
after 5 and 10 years’ service respectively.
Remuneration:
Department of Health Staff Nurse
salary scale - €32,542 X 12 increments - €48,417 per annum. Long Service Increment €49,868 per annum is
granted after 3 years on the maximum of the scale.
Department of Health Enhanced Nurse
salary scale - € 39,291 x 7 increments -
€50,018 per annum. Long Service Increment €51,482 per annum 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:
These posts are Permanent full-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 both in their approach and
their working hours, in order to work with people supported to achieve their
hopes and dreams.
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, 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 new staff in this role.
Record and monitor outcomes and track progress.
- Actively support the
implementation of the National Interim New Directions Standards.
- Record outcomes and track
progress
- Be aware of and take
responsibility in ensuring compliance with standards as outlined by the
2007 Health Act and 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 support workers in responsible and safe medication
management and carry out practical assessments of their competence in
their area of work.
- Be responsible to ensure
that hygiene and infection control standards are actively enforced.
- Ensure full compliance with
all Covid-19 precautions in place.
- Assist people supported with
personal banking and adhering to the National Guidelines on managing
individual finances.
- Devise appropriate
programmes of activity for the individual in line with the expressed or
felt needs and desires of each individual.
- Keep appropriate records to
enable full reports on 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 other staff including Support workers and Housekeeping staff and
provide feedback and direction as required.
- Take Ensure that each person
supported’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 and other
stakeholders to maintain, develop and enhance the established partnership
model.
- Ensure that a good working
relationship is fostered and maintained in the work place.
- Embrace change and take on new developments in
I.T. around storage of records and inputting of data onto databases
- Facilitate reporting at
Individual Plan meetings and at service user review meetings.
- Be conscious of Health &
Safety matters in the workplace and, in particular, to comply with
employees' obligations as set out under the Safety, Health & Welfare
at Work Act, 2005.
- Ensure that all
accidents/incidents to 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.
- Ensure confidentiality is
maintained in all matters concerning people supported including the safe
storage of reports and records.
- Promote dignity at work and
show respect to the people we support, colleagues and stakeholders in the
course of duty.
- Take an active role and lead
out Team Based Performance Management Programme in your assigned area.
- Participation in hydrotherapy
activities is an essential component of the post.
- Facilitate persons supported
with holidays and breaks away.
- 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 service users’ needs demand.
- Organise staff cover as
required.
- Act up for the Team Leader
if required.
- Perform such other duties
appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by the Area
Manager. The duties must be
carried out in person at all times.
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.
- 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;
- To work within your scope of
practice and take measures to maintain and enhance the competence
necessary for professional practice;
- Complying with and adhere to all relevant
policies and procedures;
- Promoting the safety, health,
welfare and social wellbeing of persons supported and respect the dignity
and confidentiality of persons supported and their families;
- Promoting persons supported
advocacy and maintain persons supported privacy and dignity;
- 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;
- 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
- 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);
- Supporting and cooperating
with the sharing of tasks as per national agreements;
- Engaging in continuous skill
acquisition and be supported as appropriate in doing so to ensure the
ongoing development of the enhanced role
- 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
- 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);
- 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).
- Contributing to the
identification of training needs pertinent to the clinical area;
- 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.
- Co-operating with and
implement, where appropriate, strategies developed to move work to the
community, including decongregation of settings;
- 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.
- Participating in clinical
governance structures within the local / regional / national clinical
governance framework;
- Reporting complaints/
incidents and assist with the investigation of same as appropriate;
- Facilitating and supervise
the delegation of appropriate tasks to other clinical support grades as
part of the nursing team;
- Co-operating with the
implementation of the agreed new structures developed to support
Integrated Care Organisations and Government policy in the sector.
- Supporting the implementation
of all recommendations from the HCA review including development of
appropriate policies and guidelines to promote and sustain delegation;
- 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;
- Collecting and input data on
nursing metrics or other metrics relevant to persons supported;
- Ensuring that records are
protected and managed as per HSE / local policy and in accordance with
relevant legislation;
- Working closely with
colleagues across health services in order to provide a seamless service
delivery to the persons supported as part of integration;
- 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;
- 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.
[1] For example; Time to Move on from Congregate settings; New
Directions; Assisted Decision Making legislation
[2] Including Time to Move on from
Congregate settings; New Directions; Assisted Decision Making legislation.
Engagement and Consultation on these matters with the relevant trade union will
occur
