Assistant in Nursing/ Enrolled or Allied

Clinical Care

• Provides high-quality consumer care in a harmonious and safe environment, meeting all legal requirements and the consumer’s physical, social and spiritual needs.

• Maintain high-quality standards of consumer care in accordance with organisational nursing policies and procedures.

• Ensure consumers and their families are included in the planning of care.

• Complete documentation that accurately reflects consumer’s care needs while meeting funding and legislative requirements.

• Effectively communicate with other team members to ensure high-quality/timely care is provided. In consultation with the Registered Nurse, initiate referrals as required.

• Manage consumer medication administration in accordance with legislation (if medication is endorsed).

• Participate in the continuing assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of activities and goals to achieve optimal consumer care.

• Accept accountability for your own actions and seek guidance from the Registered Nurse when limited by your own level of expertise.

• Recognise and escalate changes in the consumer’s condition and initiate consultation with relevant medical/nursing and multi-disciplinary team members as required.

• Mentor or preceptor staff as directed by the Nurse Unit Manager or delegate.

Consumer Lifestyle

• Assist consumers and their families to adjust to consumer care (if applicable).

• Support and assist consumers to maximise their independence.

• Promote and encourage consumer participation in activities of interest.

• Value and foster consumers’s interests, customs, beliefs, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

• Encourage consumers to participate in the decision-making process related to their care and environment.

• Ensure that the consumer’s private, personal or sensitive information remains confidential and the consumer’s dignity is respected at all times.

Teamwork

• Participate in innovative service development for AHS.

• Communicate and collaborate professionally with internal and external peers, stakeholders and consumers to promote AHS.

• Perform all other duties as directed (by the Registered Nurse) within the scope of practice.

• Respect decisions and actions of other staff; collaborate with team members to achieve desired consumer outcomes.

• Communicate respectfully with all employees in accordance with AHS Values and Standards of Behaviour.

Administration

• Assists in planning, delivering, evaluating and documenting quality nursing care in consultation with consumers, carers, and other health professionals.

• Ensures medical records are managed in compliance with relevant legislation and that privacy, confidentiality, and security are maintained.

• Complete filing and documentation as required on each shift.

Professional Competence & Development of Self and Others

• Accepts responsibility for own continuing professional development by setting realistic goals based on assessment of individual strengths and learning needs.

• Participates in the review of one’s professional development on an annual basis

• Supports the development of others by acting as a resource to colleagues and participating in orientation and mentoring of new staff.

• Maintain annual registration requirements and continuing professional development (CPD standards outlined by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency for Nursing and Midwifery).

• Undertake all assigned Education Training Schedule units outlined by Workready, EDUK8U and AHS.

Quality / Safety and Risk Management

• Demonstrated commitment to best practice.

• Understand the importance of consumer safety, clinical risk management and consumer participation within our organisation.

• Follow organisational safety, quality, risk management guidelines and relevant legislation.

• Take responsibility for your practice and, when appropriate, share responsibility for creating and maintaining systems that provide a safe working environment and high-quality health care.

• Escalate safety, quality, and risk concerns to the appropriate staff member – if unable to rectify yourself.

• Promote and participate in quality improvement activities to improve consumer outcomes and maintain accreditation standards.

• Comply with principles of consumer-directed care.

• Comply with requirements of relevant regulatory requirements.

Integrity

• AHS’s values and expected behaviours support ethical and responsible decision-making and a culture where all staff behave with integrity and respond appropriately if behaviour (at any level within an organisation) falls short of expectations.

• AHS’s disclosure and reporting processes provide confidentiality, utilise effective investigation and escalation mechanisms and include a range of actions to address fraudulent, corrupt or other unacceptable employee behaviours.

• If you suspect unethical, fraudulent or corrupt behaviour, it is imperative to report that behaviour. Sometimes, this behaviour is managed internally, but if it meets the mandatory minimum requirements, the CEO, as the principal officer at AHS, has a statutory obligation to report material issues to the Independent Broad-based Anticorruption Commission (IBAC).

• Reports can be made directly to the CEO or the Board depending upon the level of the organisation where the suspected behaviour occurs.