Registered Nurse

Overview

Registered Nurse

Hours: 24 Hour Day Contract (Days, Nights or Bank contracts available) – Paid Breaks

Location:
Hamble Heights Care Home, Southampton, SO31 1AZ

If you’re an experienced, compassionate nurse (RGN/RMN) looking to improve the lives of people with long-term care needs, we can offer you a rewarding career at Hamble Heights Care Home.

We’re seeking a qualified registered nurse to lead and support our care team at the care home. You’ll receive comprehensive training to help you adjust to nursing in a care home setting and ongoing development to help you progress your career.

• Provide high quality nursing care to residents.
• Lead and support the care team in delivering person-centred care.
• Conduct clinical assessments of residents, plan, implement, and evaluate care, involving residents and carers as appropriate.
• Promote the rights, interests, needs and choices of carers and people with dementia in planning, delivery and evaluation of care and services.
• Liaise with GPs, case managers, primary health care practitioners, statutory and voluntary agencies to support residents.
• Communicate clinical decisions, policy and care pathways to residents, carers and the multi-professional team, including situations where understanding may be challenging.
• Maintain clinical records and provide verbal and written feedback to carers and relevant professionals; refer to agencies as required.
• Utilise information systems to secure accurate and timely resident, workforce and resource data.
• Integrate current knowledge of dementia and caring into practice, informed by research and evidence.

• Valid RGN NMC Registration.
• Previous experience in a similar setting is desirable but not essential.
• A minimum of 1 year's experience as a Registered Nurse.
• Clear understanding of CQC standards and legislation.
• Strong leadership, clinical skills, organisational abilities, and the capacity to act as a lead.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with PCS and electronic care planning.
• Ability to inspire, motivate and lead by example.
• Flexible approach to rota to meet the needs of the home.

• Free/Onsite Parking
• Paid Breaks
• Excellent opportunities for career development
• Company pension
• Free Uniform and DBS

By providing the highest quality of nursing care, you’ll be helping to improve and sustain residents’ quality of life. Leading and supporting a care team, you’ll:

• Provide high quality nursing care to residents
• Be responsible for clinical assessment of residents, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented, and evaluated, involving residents and carers
• Promote the rights, interests and choices of carers and people with dementia in planning, delivery and evaluation of care and services
• Liaise with GPs, case managers, primary health care practitioners, statutory and voluntary agencies to support residents
• Communicate clinical decisions, policies and care pathways to residents/carers and the multi-professional team
• Maintain clinical records and provide feedback to carers and professionals as required
• Utilise information systems to ensure accurate and timely resident, workforce and resource data
• Keep knowledge of dementia care current, informed by evidence and research

Welford Healthcare was founded in 2017 with the goal of building a boutique collection of quality care homes across the UK. Our strategy is to grow our business by acquiring mature care homes with quality foundations and strong potential for improvement and by investing in our people and our properties to ensure our homes are always inviting and homely. We are a growing business with a primary focus on providing good quality care for vulnerable adults and ensuring residents’ wellbeing.

Our senior leadership team has extensive experience in operating, opening and acquiring quality care homes with proven track records in regulatory compliance and running commercially successful businesses where meeting needs and ensuring happiness of residents and teams are central to our approach.