Unit Manager – Dementia and Nursing

Working hours 5 days over a 7-day period, as agreed with the manager.

• Lead and manage Charnwood’s dedicated dementia unit, ensuring safe, compassionate, person-centred care for residents living with dementia.
• Provide RMN clinical leadership, operational oversight, and continuous quality improvement aligned to CQC standards, NICE guidance and best practice.
• To positively support the Registered Manager in providing leadership to the administration, care, catering, housekeeping, laundry and maintenance functions of the service
• To deputise for the function of the Registered Manager during their absence, while, at all times, supporting the decisions made by the Registered Manager
• To maintain skills at a current level and undertake such training and development as may from time-to-time be required to maintain that currency of practice.
• To manage the service in accordance with standards agreed with the Registered Manager, the Registered Provider, legislative requirements, relevant regulations and in line with accepted best practice, and within the financial plans agreed from time-to-time with the Registered Provider
• To protect self, staff, residents, and visitors against infection risks.
• To comply with current infection control policies and procedures and to report any problems regarding this to the Registered Manager.
• To attend infection control training and updates as required by Divine Rock Care Limited

Charnwood Care Home, Nottingham, but you may be required to work from other locations at the discretion of the company and with appropriate notice.

The Unit Manager’s responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Provide visible RMN leadership and set standards in dementia care, communication, and de-escalation.
• Oversee assessment, care planning and review (digital records), ensuring person-centred, trauma-informed care.
• Lead management of BPSD (non-pharmacological first), medication monitoring and clinical risk (falls, nutrition/hydration, pressure care, pain, delirium).
• Chair/attend MDTs; coordinate GP/CMHT/SALT/OT/physio/pharmacy input.
• Ensure accurate documentation, incident reporting/learning and clinical audit cycles (meds, care plans, falls, IPC, MCA/DoLS).

• Line-manage nurses/seniors/care assistants on the unit; recruitment, induction, supervision, appraisal and performance.
• Plan/deliver competency sign-off and training (dementia, safeguarding, MCA/DoLS, PBS, de-escalation/PMVA, meds, documentation, EoL, IPC).
• Foster a positive learning culture with reflective practice and staff wellbeing.

• Lead MCA/DoLS processes; embed capacity assessments, best-interest decisions and least-restrictive practice.
• Implement IPC standards and audits.
• Track and improve KPIs (incidents, falls, weight, admissions, medicines errors, complaints/training compliance, agency use).
• Prepare for inspections, LA/ICB reviews, safeguarding and CHC assessments.

• Attend statutory training and any other training as directed by management.
• Be registered with the relevant body and work within the Code of Conduct
• Obtain the relevant qualifications required to work in the deputising role, e.g. management qualification commensurate with the role

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