REGISTERED NURSE

Job Details

Qualifications: RN on NMC Register

Further postgraduate training & qualifications desirable

Responsible to: Directors of Superior Care (Midlands) Limited

Reports to: Registered Manager

Location: Portway House/Newbury Manor Care Home

Summary of role

To take responsibility for ensuring:

• that the highest standards of care are delivered to the residents at all times.

• that the reputation of Portway House is upheld by presenting a professional and caring approach at all times to residents, visitors, and external professionals.

• that the policies and procedures of Portway House 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.

• that as a named nurse for a number of residents, the care of those residents is planned and delivered to the highest standard and the resident / family / representatives are fully involved in decisions about care.

• that the home is run efficiently, safely and smoothly in the absence of the Manager.

Principle accountabilities

1. Ensuring that personal practice is in accordance with the NMC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives - 2008.

2. Ensuring that all care staff follow the GSCC Code of Conduct.

3. 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.

4. Ensuring that care is assessed, planned, implemented, evaluated and fully documented using a person-centred approach for each resident. Whilst focussing on the specific group of residents allocated as the named nurse, the responsibility is for all residents.

5. Ensuring that care is delivered by appropriately skilled and informed staff.

6. For the allocated group of residents, ensuring that each resident’s care is reviewed monthly, and that residents and families / representatives are fully involved.

7. Ensuring that personal care practices are current and research-based wherever possible, maintaining and updating personal knowledge.

8. Adopting a lead role in an area of specialism / interest, developing knowledge and appropriate skills, ensuring best practice by all staff in that area.

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.

12. Reporting issues to the statutory authorities if necessary (e.g. the CQC via required Notices, and the local safeguarding team).

13. Communicating effectively with residents, relatives, staff, and external professionals.

14. Assisting in ensuring health and safety at Newbury Manor Nursing Home, 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, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and the CQC.

16. Supporting the nurse responsible for the four-weekly medicines ordering and checking-in process, liaising with GP surgeries and the pharmacy as necessary.

17. Responsibility for the supervision of a number of care staff, 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 or Directors as required, ensuring that they are appropriately informed, and ensuring actions requested by them are promptly implemented.

23. To assist in maintaining safe levels of care, monitoring standards of care and ensuring safe practice.

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 Newbury Manor.

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 Directors of Superior Care (Midlands) Limited.

Please note that this job description is subject to change to meet the needs of the organisation.