Jennifer Cave

To work with the Senior Management and fellow SCPHNs to deliver the Healthy Child Programme (5-19) (Best start in life and beyond).
To utilise strategic leadership skills to plan, deliver, implement and manage projects to improve the health and wellbeing of both individuals and groups.
Ensure an overview of community need and community team resources to inform service planning by searching for health needs within Warwickshire using data generated from the Health Needs Assessment.
Ensure high standards of service delivery.

Monitor the outcome of service delivery to ensure school aged children and young people meet their full potential.
Contribute to annual Appraisals by providing staff with Practice Observations and feedback on their practice.Liaise with, build relationships with, train and support school staff to implement the Healthy Child Programme (Best start in
life and beyond).
Participate in working groups, at present I lead the Outreach Group to support those who are "seldom heard" such as home educated, young carers, gypsy/romany/traveller families.
Undertake initial assessments and in depth assessments of complex health and social issues with children, young people and families who I hold on my caseload.

Work as a team of SCPHNs to review and update policy and procedures to ensure smooth running of the service and support the achievement of our KPIs.
Follow safeguarding procedures; completing holistic health assessments, attending and contributing to meetings.
Complete CIC health assessment within statutory timeframes.
Provide both ad hoc and scheduled safeguarding supervision and to the nursing team and wider skill mix.
Undertake regular duty nurse/MASH and ChatHealth sessions. Support service delivery and ensure support to meet service KPI’s, encouraging and leading the team in completing this.
Identify training needs within the team and support with learning opportunities for all colleagues.
Support the development of staff through preceptorship, role modelling, acting as a practice supervisor and mentor.
Ensure I have an overview of the team's caseload, undertake delegation and allocation of work.

Provide the team with support in managing their caseload, ensure the morale remains strong and act as their voice when necessary to Senior Management.
Support the Team Leaders and provide an operational link to the team.

Support the School Nurses in the implementation and delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (5-19yrs) (Best start in life and beyond).
Promote, deliver and respond to Health Needs Assessment for School Readiness, Year 6 and Year 9 children, young people and their parents/carers.
Arrange and deliver referral meetings and health promotion messages in schools
Advise, support and signpost young people to targeted and specialist services.
Follow safeguarding procedures, complete holistic health assessments, attend and contribute to safeguarding meetings.
Complete CIC health assessment within statutory timeframes.
Complete individual healthcare plans such as those for buccal midazolam and auto-injectors.
Deliver of medical awareness training in schools.
Deliver interventions on a range of areas e.g. support for emotional
health and wellbeing issues.

Manage my own caseload of children, young people and families, ensuring their care is delivered in a timely manner, correctly documented and evaluated to ensure the best service delivery is maintained.
Work as a duty nurse, including providing MASH and ChatHealth cover.
Review A&E notifications, further investigating these if necessary and ensuring all documentation is complete.
Contribute to the development of the school public health priorities and co-develop action plans with schools during Sharing of Information meetings.
Participate in working groups related to the service.
Partnership work with other agencies and services.
Contribute to professional development of colleagues via practice
observations, clinical supervision and appraisal process.
Support the development of staff through preceptorship, role modelling and mentoring.
Promote the service at every opportunity and always act as a good advertisement for the service.
Make every contact count.
Identify own training needs and seek to address these.

Working as a Chemotherapy nurse.

Always maintaining a high standard of patient care.

Administering Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy and Hormone Therapy to cancer patients.

Maintaining indwelling lines for those patients.

Venepuncture and cannulation.

Managing my own caseload of patients and keeping my clinic list to time.

Ensuring patients were prepared to commence their treatment through the delivery of a pre-assessment clinic which performed all necessary pre-chemo tests and prepared the patient thoroughly for their treatment.

Liaising with the multi-disciplinary team to provide an exemplary, holistic service for patients.

Acting as a positive role model to junior colleagues at all times.

Acting as an advocate for patients when they were unable to do this for themselves.

Maintaining the privacy, dignity and safety of all patients, consistently adhering to health and safety policies.

Ensuring all documentation was completed concisely and in a timely manner, adhering to data protection and hospital policies.

Monitored patient wellbeing, accurately recognising deterioration and initiating immediate emergency care.

Delivered life support with updated first aid and CPR training.

Quickly responded to medical emergencies, working calmly and professionally under pressure.

Used planning and prioritisation abilities to safely care for a designated number of patients.

Worked closely with fellow nurses, doctors and clinicians for consistent communication and continued best care practices.

Educated patients on good health, providing leaflets and verbal guidance on improved wellbeing measures.

Administered medication in line with stringent drug regulations.

Built caring, compassionate relationships with patients, providing emotional support and encouragement during their cancer journey.

Established positive rapport with patients and their families through active listening and compassionate care.

Senior Staff Nurse on an Elective Orthopaedic ward.

Providing basic patient care - always maintaining a high standard of care.

Co-ordinating the shift using my leadership and management skills. This included managing the staff, ensuring adequate skill mix, ensuring admissions have beds, dealing with emergencies as they arose, managing staff sickness.

Admitting and preparing patients for surgery.

Recovering patients post-operatively.

Assisting patients to return to independence (or appropriate level).

Facilitating timely and safe discharge of patients.

Caring for patients with multiple co-morbidities who became acutely unwell post-operatively.

Acting as a good role model for colleagues, junior staff and students.

Liaising with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure patient care was exemplary.

Acting as an advocate for my patients when they were unable to do so for themselves.

Assessed clinical performance of nursing students and provided techniques to improve their nursing care. Acted as a sign-off mentor for student nurses.

Participated in clinical risk and quality improvement initiatives such as Surgical Site Surveillance Audits.

Created staff rotas to guarantee optimal coverage on all shifts.

Increased staff morale by introducing social activities for all staff.

Consistently monitored patient health and wellbeing to recognise deterioration and initiated appropriate action.

Evaluated existing infection control and prevention practices to identify areas of improvement through ward infection rate audits.

Provided supervision and appraisals for a designated group of skill mix staff.

I worked within the hospital as an Occupational Health Clinic Nurse.

Managed a daily clinic caseload, keeping to time.

Providing a high standard of care to all clients.

Provided pre-employment assessments to ensure clients were fit for role.

Administered immunisations and vaccinations working to both PGD and PSD as applicable.

Provided health screening, including assessing which communicable diseases each client required tests for, venepuncture to obtain blood samples, assessing the results and taking the appropriate action based on these results.

Dealt with blood and body fluid contamination injuries, including arranging post-exposure prophylaxis where necessary and providing follow up testing and counselling where appropriate.

Providing health promotion and education to staff through notice board displays, one to one sessions and through health and wellbeing events.

Participated in the annual flu vaccination campaign.

Working with external contracts, ensuring their staff were healthy and fit for work.

Designing, implementing, assessing and reporting on a Trustwide audit to establish knowledge on needlestick/contamination injuries, their prevention and treatment. This was reported back to the Chief Executive.

Ensured all record keeping was timely, accurate and in accordance with data protection and hospital policy.

Conducted safety audits and investigated reported issues, accidents and near-misses, documenting findings appropriately.

Develop and maintain good working relationships with senior staff within the Trust, ensuring their departments maintained good health and safety measures, providing feedback on audits and managing those situations where audit results were not positive.

Assisted in re-writing policy and procedure for safety within the hospital setting, to reduce workplace injuries and hazards.

Ensured all clients felt safe, listened to and cared for at all times within the department.

Senior Staff Nurse on an Elective Orthopaedic ward.

Providing basic patient care - always maintaining a high standard of care.

Co-ordinating the shift using my leadership and management skills. This included managing the staff, ensuring adequate skill mix, ensuring admissions have beds, dealing with emergencies as they arose, managing staff sickness.

Admitting and preparing patients for surgery.

Recovering patients post-operatively.

Assisting patients to return to independence (or appropriate level).

Facilitating timely and safe discharge of patients.

Caring for patients with multiple co-morbidities who became acutely unwell post-operatively.

Acting as a good role model for colleagues, junior staff and students.

Liaising with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure patient care was exemplary.

Acting as an advocate for my patients when they were unable to do so for themselves.

Assessed clinical performance of nursing students and provided techniques to improve their nursing care. Acted as a sign-off mentor for student nurses.

Participated in clinical risk and quality improvement initiatives such as Surgical Site Surveillance Audits.

Created staff rotas to guarantee optimal coverage on all shifts.

Increased staff morale by introducing social activities for all staff.

Consistently monitored patient health and wellbeing to recognise deterioration and initiated appropriate action.

Evaluated existing infection control and prevention practices to identify areas of improvement through ward infection rate audits.

Provided supervision and appraisals for a designated group of skill mix staff.