Registered General Nurse
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
- Northamptonshire
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 02 Jul 2022
- Closes
- 30 Jul 2022
- Sectors
- Health, Nursing & Social Care, Nursing
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
My client runs 2 Nursing Homes in Stanwick and require 3x Registered Nurses to join their team. As a Registered General Nurse, you're at the heart of making a difference to their residents and will value kindness above all. As a highly respected member of their team, you will play a vital role. You're accountable for making sure policies and standards meet their high clinical standard and offering clinical guidance to the whole care team.
Being a Registered Nurse means taking responsibility for the well-being of their residents, including making sure their physical, emotional, and social needs are met. Leading, motivating, and mentoring your team and delivering clinical guidance and training to ensure the safe, smooth and efficient running of the care home. Carrying out assessments and developing, implementing, and evaluating individualised care plans for each of their residents. Monitoring work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and conform to relevant standards, policies, and legislation. Generally promoting their residents' independence, choice, dignity, and respect by delivering the very best standards of care and striving for continuous improvement.
The Role
To take responsibility for ensuring:
that the highest standards of care are delivered to the residents at all times.
that the reputation of the Nursing Home is upheld by presenting a professional and caring approach at all times to residents, visitors, and external professionals.
that the policies and procedures of Nursing Home are followed at all times.
the safety of residents, visitors and staff.
the well-being of all residents within the home, and ensuring that their physical, mental, emotional and social care needs are met.
Responsible for ensuring care plans are updated and evaluated as allocated on a daily basis
that the home is run efficiently, safely and smoothly in the absence of the Manager or Senior Nurse.
Principle accountabilities
1. Ensuring that personal practice is in accordance with the NMC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives.
2. Reporting to a Senior Manager any issues affecting the home s ability to deliver the highest standards of care, including where the practice of other staff is in question.
3. Ensuring that care is assessed, planned, implemented, evaluated and fully documented using a person-centred approach for each resident.
4. For the allocated group of residents, ensuring that each resident s care is reviewed monthly, and that residents and families / representatives are fully involved.
5. Ensuring that personal care practices are current and research-based wherever possible, maintaining and updating personal knowledge.
6. Adopting a lead role in an area of specialism / interest, developing knowledge and appropriate skills, ensuring best practice by all staff in that area.
7. Adopting a lead role in an area of specialism/interest, developing knowledge and appropriate skills, ensuring best practice by all staff in that area
8. Ensure a clinical entry is made in every resident daily records at least once a shift
9. Completing accident and incident records whenever necessary. If in doubt, a record should be completed.
10. Assisting in the process of investigating complaints, and ensuring that actions are taken as required.
11. Reporting adverse issues in a timely fashion to a Senior Manager as appropriate, consulting the Management On-Call Rota and guidance to determine who to contact and when.
12. Reporting issues to the statutory authorities if necessary (e.g. CQC via statutory notification forms and SoVA) in the absence of the Manager
13. Communicating effectively with residents, relatives, staff, and external professionals.
14. Assisting in ensuring health and safety, including verifying that staff are following safe systems of work.
15. Ensuring that personal practice in medicines handling, administration, ordering and storage is safe, and compliant with legislation and current guidance issued by the NMC and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
16. Supporting the allocated nurse in the four-weekly medicines ordering and checking-in process, liaising with GP surgeries and the pharmacy as necessary.
17. Responsibility for the supervision of auxiliary and senior care assistants, conducting formal supervision sessions, meetings and appraisals as agreed with the Manager, and being the mentor for a number of care assistants.
18. Providing clinical support to other registered nurses where required.
19. Being particularly vigilant in the prevention of abuse, ensuring that all staff are fully aware of their responsibilities in this respect, and taking / reporting appropriate action to the Manager.
20. Whistleblowing in the event of witnessing bad practice or harm to a resident; being fully conversant with the Whistleblowing Policy.
21. Responsibility for ensuring that all aspects of wound care and tissue viability are addressed to a high standard, liaising with appropriate external specialists (e.g. Tissue Viability Nurses) as necessary.
22. Supporting the Manager and Senior Nurse as required, ensuring that they are appropriately informed, and ensuring actions requested by these Managers are promptly implemented.
23. Responsible for hands on clinical care as part of the staff team to assist in the daily delivery of personal & continence care to the residents to enable accurate evaluation of skin integrity & continence. Assisting with mealtimes and feeding ensuring nutritional needs are met.
24. To be involved with residents activities both in and out of the home and to encourage residents to take part in leisure pursuits.
25. Establish appropriate and professional working relationships with all residents, their visitors, and visiting professional and multi-disciplinary team members, to ensure effective outcomes for the residents, and enhance the reputation of Brockfield House Nursing Home
26. Advising the Manager of any adverse impact on the care of the residents arising from practices, budgetary constraints or non-availability of resources and equipment.
27. Undertaking any other tasks as reasonably requested by a Senior Manager or the Managing Director.
28. To attend and contribute to staff meetings, encouraging a climate of involvement, ownership and development.
29. To be a link nurse for an allocated area e.g. wound care.
Package
Working Hours are - Nights Only
42 Hours per week to include 7 shifts per fortnight and alternate weekends.
Hourly Rate of GBP20.54 equivalent to GBP44,859 pa
Overtime available
Double pay on ALL x8 Bank Holidays to include the Queen s Platinum Jubilee
Staff Transport Available
Paid Breaks
Paid Training
Being a Registered Nurse means taking responsibility for the well-being of their residents, including making sure their physical, emotional, and social needs are met. Leading, motivating, and mentoring your team and delivering clinical guidance and training to ensure the safe, smooth and efficient running of the care home. Carrying out assessments and developing, implementing, and evaluating individualised care plans for each of their residents. Monitoring work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and conform to relevant standards, policies, and legislation. Generally promoting their residents' independence, choice, dignity, and respect by delivering the very best standards of care and striving for continuous improvement.
The Role
To take responsibility for ensuring:
that the highest standards of care are delivered to the residents at all times.
that the reputation of the Nursing Home is upheld by presenting a professional and caring approach at all times to residents, visitors, and external professionals.
that the policies and procedures of Nursing Home are followed at all times.
the safety of residents, visitors and staff.
the well-being of all residents within the home, and ensuring that their physical, mental, emotional and social care needs are met.
Responsible for ensuring care plans are updated and evaluated as allocated on a daily basis
that the home is run efficiently, safely and smoothly in the absence of the Manager or Senior Nurse.
Principle accountabilities
1. Ensuring that personal practice is in accordance with the NMC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives.
2. Reporting to a Senior Manager any issues affecting the home s ability to deliver the highest standards of care, including where the practice of other staff is in question.
3. Ensuring that care is assessed, planned, implemented, evaluated and fully documented using a person-centred approach for each resident.
4. For the allocated group of residents, ensuring that each resident s care is reviewed monthly, and that residents and families / representatives are fully involved.
5. Ensuring that personal care practices are current and research-based wherever possible, maintaining and updating personal knowledge.
6. Adopting a lead role in an area of specialism / interest, developing knowledge and appropriate skills, ensuring best practice by all staff in that area.
7. Adopting a lead role in an area of specialism/interest, developing knowledge and appropriate skills, ensuring best practice by all staff in that area
8. Ensure a clinical entry is made in every resident daily records at least once a shift
9. Completing accident and incident records whenever necessary. If in doubt, a record should be completed.
10. Assisting in the process of investigating complaints, and ensuring that actions are taken as required.
11. Reporting adverse issues in a timely fashion to a Senior Manager as appropriate, consulting the Management On-Call Rota and guidance to determine who to contact and when.
12. Reporting issues to the statutory authorities if necessary (e.g. CQC via statutory notification forms and SoVA) in the absence of the Manager
13. Communicating effectively with residents, relatives, staff, and external professionals.
14. Assisting in ensuring health and safety, including verifying that staff are following safe systems of work.
15. Ensuring that personal practice in medicines handling, administration, ordering and storage is safe, and compliant with legislation and current guidance issued by the NMC and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
16. Supporting the allocated nurse in the four-weekly medicines ordering and checking-in process, liaising with GP surgeries and the pharmacy as necessary.
17. Responsibility for the supervision of auxiliary and senior care assistants, conducting formal supervision sessions, meetings and appraisals as agreed with the Manager, and being the mentor for a number of care assistants.
18. Providing clinical support to other registered nurses where required.
19. Being particularly vigilant in the prevention of abuse, ensuring that all staff are fully aware of their responsibilities in this respect, and taking / reporting appropriate action to the Manager.
20. Whistleblowing in the event of witnessing bad practice or harm to a resident; being fully conversant with the Whistleblowing Policy.
21. Responsibility for ensuring that all aspects of wound care and tissue viability are addressed to a high standard, liaising with appropriate external specialists (e.g. Tissue Viability Nurses) as necessary.
22. Supporting the Manager and Senior Nurse as required, ensuring that they are appropriately informed, and ensuring actions requested by these Managers are promptly implemented.
23. Responsible for hands on clinical care as part of the staff team to assist in the daily delivery of personal & continence care to the residents to enable accurate evaluation of skin integrity & continence. Assisting with mealtimes and feeding ensuring nutritional needs are met.
24. To be involved with residents activities both in and out of the home and to encourage residents to take part in leisure pursuits.
25. Establish appropriate and professional working relationships with all residents, their visitors, and visiting professional and multi-disciplinary team members, to ensure effective outcomes for the residents, and enhance the reputation of Brockfield House Nursing Home
26. Advising the Manager of any adverse impact on the care of the residents arising from practices, budgetary constraints or non-availability of resources and equipment.
27. Undertaking any other tasks as reasonably requested by a Senior Manager or the Managing Director.
28. To attend and contribute to staff meetings, encouraging a climate of involvement, ownership and development.
29. To be a link nurse for an allocated area e.g. wound care.
Package
Working Hours are - Nights Only
42 Hours per week to include 7 shifts per fortnight and alternate weekends.
Hourly Rate of GBP20.54 equivalent to GBP44,859 pa
Overtime available
Double pay on ALL x8 Bank Holidays to include the Queen s Platinum Jubilee
Staff Transport Available
Paid Breaks
Paid Training