Senior Nurse/Clinical Lead circa £50,000 Plymouth

Overview

POSITION: SENIOR NURSE

LOCATION: PLYMOUTH

SALARY: CIRCA £50,000

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, days

Shifts: Primarily Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 3:30pm. There would be an afternoon shift once or twice per week as required. Weekend commitment: One weekend per month. Supernumerary hours: 25.5 hours per week are supernumerary. On-call: There is no on-call requirement attached to this role.

Benefits

• Fantastic overtime rates!
• Support with your revalidation commitments and ensure you receive continued learning through our internal training programme.
• A competitive pension.
• A cycle to work scheme.
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) providing a range of free and confidential services and advice for you and your family, such as wellbeing support, counselling and legal advice.
• Monthly employee recognition.
• Ealy access wage scheme.
• A friendly and supportive working environment.
• A refer a friend bonus of £200.

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Leads, directs, supervises and supports the Nurses with and all other grades of care staff working within the home in providing services which can respond flexibly to the needs of the residents.
• Ensure compliance with all legal, regulatory and best practice guidelines, ensuring risks are proactively managed and issues identified, investigated and resolved.
• Liaison with relatives and other significant people in the lives of residents and members of other Multi-Disciplinary Teams, who share the responsibility for the physical, psychological, social, spiritual and emotional wellbeing of residents.
• You will look after the physical, psychological and social needs of our residents and work in line with Amica Care's policies and procedures.
• You will look to provide a safe and supportive environment for residents with range of physical and mental needs, whilst also using your professional judgement to make critical clinical decisions.
• Oversee all aspects of medication management, ensuring medications are appropriately ordered, received, stored and administered to our residents.
• Support the management team to ensure there is a line management structure for care staff and nurses in order to take an active role in the development of staff through effective clinical supervision, mentoring and support to ensure their competence with relevant Trust policies and Statutory requirements

Requirements

• You will need to have a current NMC registration and a good knowledge of the most up to date clinical practices.
• A nursing Diploma.
• At least 2 years' experience working as a nurse in a health care setting or similar healthcare setting.
• Knowledge and understanding of CQC regulations.
• Knowledge of older people's care.
• Good knowledge of dementia & complex healthcare needs.
• Healthcare professional Qualification / Level 4/5 (desirable).
• Strong assessment and care planning skills.
• Strong leaderships skills.

As with all our employees, you will be expected to work within our staff values and promote these at all times by being an effective communicator, passionate about your work, encouraging team working and having a positive attitude. Overall you should pride yourself on your person-centred approach and thoughtful approach to nursing.

Real Recruitment Solutions is committed to a policy of equal opportunities across all areas of our business and at all stages in the selection process. Acting in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 and guidelines given by the REC, we treat everyone equally irrespective of sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, age, disability, race, ethnic or national origin, religion, political beliefs or membership or non-membership of a Trade Union.

From advertising vacancies, conducting candidate searches, selecting CVs, discussing vacancies and submitting details to clients through to interview preparation and at offer stage, Real Recruitment Solutions ensure that each candidate is assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the relevant duties required by the particular vacancy.

Real Recruitment Solutions place an obligation upon all staff to respect and act in accordance with this policy and consistently review regulations as laid out by the REC to ensure our policy is updated and relevant across all aspects of recruitment in order to avoid unlawful or undesirable discrimination.