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JOSEPH BASS

Eastbourne,United Kingdom

Summary

Highly skilled nurse with expertise in advanced physical assessment, wound closure and management, and independent non-medical nurse prescribing. Demonstrates strong clinical leadership and autonomous practice, excelling in the management of acute and chronic conditions. Proficient in PICC line vascular care, tracheostomy care, catheterisation, and urgent community response triage. Adept at mentoring, coaching, appraisals, and leading community health integrated care initiatives. Committed to quality improvement through audit and research participation. Career goal: to continue enhancing patient care through innovative practices and leadership in nursing.

Overview

23
23

Years of professional experience in UK

Work history

Advanced Clinical Lead

EAST SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST
01.2016 - 01.2025
  • Identified and took appropriate actions within teams that ensured cooperation and collaborative working.
  • Demonstrated and led team by reflecting on their own behaviour and that of others in challenging circumstances.
  • Worked across boundaries and created sustainable networks for patient care and staff alike.
  • Recognised and supported colleagues affected by COVID-19 infections and effectively managed issues that trigger emotional responses in oneself, describing and demonstrating coping strategies through support and coaching.
  • Line managed junior staff, mentored them, and identified opportunities for staff to develop and learn new evidence-based innovations.
  • Role models trust values by maintaining person-centred culture.
  • Regularly attends MDT meetings, conducts appraisals for nurses I line manage, and continuously assists head of nursing with active recruitment and conducting interviews.
  • Appropriately monitored and re-orders clinical stocks needed for patient care, ensuring cost effectiveness.
  • Supported team in managing incidents by exploring root cause analysis and sharing outcomes for effective learning to embrace best evidence-based practises.
  • Maintained high standard of patient care within community and primary care by continuously contributing to preventing avoidable hospital admissions.
  • Initiated need to advance practise and have been holistically providing outstanding care for patients by autonomously prescribing, reviewing medications and de-prescribing for community patient groups, and liaising with GPs when necessary to optimise care.
  • Continuously provided urgent 2-hour response to patients in crisis where unplanned admissions were avoided by utilising advanced nursing skills and expert knowledge to assess patient’s physical and psychosocial needs.
  • Initiated treatments based on best available evidence to stabilise individual’s condition, avoided inappropriate admissions, or admit patients promptly to prevent deterioration, sepsis, and deaths.
  • Received referrals from community MDTs and acute hospital gateway areas daily and autonomously triaged patients appropriate for 2-hour response for home visits for clinical assessment and treatment.
  • Performed safe patient-advanced physical assessment and management of acute and chronic conditions, including those with social crises due to complex co-morbidities, avoiding unplanned hospital admissions.
  • Utilised advanced physical assessment skills to make independent diagnosis by both initiating and prescribing treatment plans or making urgent referrals accordingly.
  • Undertook competent cannulations, and care of central venous access devices.
  • Competently interpreted microbiology and blood results critically analysed them and liaised with GPs where required or hospital doctors on call to discuss clinical decisions made for urgent admissions.
  • Have been competently analysing and interpreting blood gases when patient is visited in acute hospitals for assessment to determine if it is appropriate to agree with consultant to be discharged early and deemed safe to be managed at home by urgent community response.
  • Appropriately devised and reviewed treatment plans; medicine optimisation; safe computer documentation using System One; and safe administration of intravenous antibiotics at patient’s home.
  • Prescribed antibiotics appropriately as per clinical evidence to reduce resistance as independent non-medical prescriber.
  • Participating in training junior nurse practitioners and mentoring staff doing advanced physical assessment and non-medical prescribing within UCR team.
  • Participated in developing pathways for community advanced practise such as urinary tract infections, pneumonia, wound infections, and cellulitis management by urgent community response team.
  • Agreed crisis management plans with patients, including carers, relatives, and other appropriate health care professionals. Decisions are always based on full assessment of medical, nursing, and basic social care needs.
  • Assisted clients and carers manage their medications in conjunction with GPs, pharmacists, and other relevant clinical staff, including medication reviews as part of initial assessments and ongoing patient reviews.
  • Provided expert clinical care and health promotion to patients, carers, and other health professionals.
  • Am proud of initiating and pioneering haematology/oncology-based nurse-led PICC line insertion service for patients with fragile veins needing to start urgent long-term chemotherapy.
  • Conducted comprehensive patient assessments for improved treatment plans
  • Conducted comprehensive patient assessments for improved treatment plans.
  • Participated actively in departmental meetings, contributing valuable insights from frontline experience.
  • Assisted in recruitment processes to ensure selection of competent clinical staff.
  • Adhered strictly to regulatory guidelines during all clinical procedures for compliance assurance.
  • Achieved high level of staff motivation through effective leadership and communication.
  • Delivered efficient health services by maintaining close liaison with multidisciplinary teams.
  • Led training programmes to enhance clinical skills of junior team members.
  • Maintained up-to-date knowledge of latest medical advancement, delivering better patient outcomes.

Senior Specialist Nurse

EASTBOURNE DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL
01.2008 - 01.2016
  • Participated in initiating corrective measures where standards of care are not met through training and coaching or mentoring support.
  • Maintained a high standard of patient care within the unit, as assessed through patient feedback and recovery.
  • Took charge of the ward where need arose at any time and coordinated work and staff allocations as per skill mix.
  • Promoted teamwork to effectively deliver high-standard patient care by supporting junior and new staff through mentoring/coaching.
  • Out of hours, triaging and advising post-chemotherapy patients in their own homes over the phone and autonomously deciding if their conditions need urgent admission to our specialist unit.
  • Administered chemotherapy safely to cancer patients using evidence-based knowledge and skills.
  • Participated in nursing and medical research within the unit.
  • Conducted a clinical audit where management of neutropenic sepsis post-chemotherapy and central line infections in the emergency department and wards was improved.

Nurse

EASTBOURNE DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL
01.2002 - 01.2008
  • Maintained a high standard of patient care on the ward.
  • Formed effective patient care plans that were always implemented, reviewed, and evaluated.
  • Initiated corrective measures where the standard of care is not met by raising the data that was analysed, and lessons learned improved service delivery.
  • Took charge of the ward competently where need arises at any time.
  • Promoted teamwork effectively by regularly attending team meetings and mandatory trainings where care standards and care innovations as per new emerging evidence-based practises are shared.
  • Planned and organised workload evenly on the ward, ensuring that nursing care plans are fully completed and documented on time and appropriately.
  • Participating in nursing and medical research within the ward setting.
  • Supported a maggot study on wound debridement by a consultant, the findings of which benefit patient care as evidence-based practise.

Education

ACP - MSC - ACP - MSC

Brighton University
Brighton University
09.2022 -

PGCERT Independent Non-Medical Prescriber Level 7 - Medway School of Pharmacy

University of Greenwich
University of Greenwich
05.2019 -

CERT Advanced Physical Assessment - School of Nursing and Midwifery

Brighton University

Certificate in work-based learning in chemotherapy - School of Nursing and Midwifery

Brighton University

BSC (Hons) Clinical Nursing Professional Practice - School of Nursing and Midwifery

Brighton University

Registered Certified Midwife - RCM CERT - School of Nursing and Midwifery

Gambia College

Registered Nurse in General Nursing – RGN CERT - School of Nursing and Midwifery

Gambia College

Skills

  • Advanced physical assessment
  • Wound closure and management
  • Independent Non-Medical Nurse Prescribing
  • Supplementary Prescribing
  • Autonomous practice
  • Clinical leadership
  • Good communication skills
  • Nurse-led management of minor illness
  • Management of acute/long term chronic conditions
  • PICC line vascular nurse specialist
  • Acute/community nursing skills
  • Catheterisation
  • Tracheostomy care
  • Nurse led Urgent Community Response triage
  • Audit/research participation
  • Participating in quality improvement
  • Venepunctures
  • Cannulations
  • Medication reviews
  • De-prescribing
  • Basic ECG interpretation
  • Blood and Microbiology results interpretation
  • Blood gas interpretation
  • Mentoring
  • Coaching
  • Appraisals skills
  • Leading community health integrated care
  • Computer literacy
  • Power point presentation

Personal Information

Nationality: British

Custom

  • Cycling to keep fit when off duty
  • Regular gymnastic attendance
  • Reading
  • Listening to music

Timeline

ACP - MSC - ACP - MSC

Brighton University
09.2022 -

PGCERT Independent Non-Medical Prescriber Level 7 - Medway School of Pharmacy

University of Greenwich
05.2019 -

Advanced Clinical Lead

EAST SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST
01.2016 - 01.2025

Senior Specialist Nurse

EASTBOURNE DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL
01.2008 - 01.2016

Nurse

EASTBOURNE DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL
01.2002 - 01.2008

CERT Advanced Physical Assessment - School of Nursing and Midwifery

Brighton University

Certificate in work-based learning in chemotherapy - School of Nursing and Midwifery

Brighton University

BSC (Hons) Clinical Nursing Professional Practice - School of Nursing and Midwifery

Brighton University

Registered Certified Midwife - RCM CERT - School of Nursing and Midwifery

Gambia College

Registered Nurse in General Nursing – RGN CERT - School of Nursing and Midwifery

Gambia College

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