Job responsibilities
Job Description:-
Who are The Fairlie Healthcare Group?
The Fairlie Healthcare Group is a leading provider of high-quality care, and we were established in 1999. We specialise in caring for adults with neurological conditions, as well as patients with tracheostomies and who require ventilator support.
Our new career pathway means that whatever skills and experience you currently possess, you could fit into our pathway and progress your career with The Fairlie Healthcare Group, gaining specialist competencies and personal development along the way.
We are now looking for more outstanding staff to join us on this exciting journey.
Not only would this be a fantastic opportunity working for a brand-new home, but this would also give you an insight into the world of complex neurological healthcare and how truly rewarding a job this can be.
Link to our website:Outstanding Care Homes for the Highly Dependant - Fairlie Healthcare
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Scope:-
- To facilitate learning and development in line with the core values and values framework of the service, ensuring they are embedded into daily practices of care.
- To ensure outstanding levels of care are provided to the Individuals living within the service by monitoring and improving the foundational caring practice of all care staff within the home by means of implementing the Care Certificate.
- Promote quality care outcomes to support person-centred care and monitor best practices in line with Royal Marsden Procedures, Clinical Skills and Fairlie Healthcares standards of care across all homes.
- To ensure training, supervision and support is provided to staff, enabling them to deliver safe, caring, effective and responsive care to the Individuals living within the service, and to play a part in creating and promoting an environment where excellence can flourish.
- Take responsibility for the training and developing of your own competence as well as staff competence as per the Learning and Development strategy, to ensure Individuals living within the service are cared for in a safe manner and not exposed to unnecessary risk or harm.
Responsibilities:
- Induct carers new to the service by supporting them through the 15 standards of the Care Certificate within their first 12 weeks of employment to ensure individuals living within the service are being cared for in a safe, competent, and person-centred manner.
- Complete and record progress of new inductees in their Skills Portfolio and provide feedback of practice in a timely manner by means of discussion, supervisions, and observations.
- Collate and prepare monthly reports for L&D Manager on deliverables set by the Executive Board such as competency completion and Care Certificate completion (this list is not exhaustive).
- Ensure staff are skilled and competent to provide high quality care in relation to the functional Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and other health needs of the Individuals living within the service, all the while, by preserving their privacy and dignity.
- To coordinate with the Management team of the home to ensure assigned duties are appropriate to the level of competence demonstrated by the learner.
- Induct staff members new to the organisation according to the guidelines set out to include facilitating corporate induction training and bespoke in-service training as required.
- To arrange and coordinate an effective Mandatory Training planner, in coordination with Clinical Trainer, for the Centre to achieve compliance across the service by supporting the management team to allocate staff for daily sessions, maintaining accurate training records and encouraging training attendance.
- Seek out learning opportunities essential to the development of the learners role within Fairlie Healthcare by signposting resources and actively planning learning opportunities for your learner, be it internal or external training or educational programs.
- To ensure clinical staff are trained and competent in accurate record keeping and documentation, maintaining the standard required for completing documentation to ensure care delivered is in line with the Centres policies and procedures.
- Undertake the roles and responsibilities of a trainer in certain areas of practice such as Moving and Handling, Safeguarding and various clinical competencies with potential for additional training responsibilities.
- Identify areas for improvement in practice of your learners by setting SMART objectives during supervisions and provide bi-monthly progress updates and plans for achieving set objectives for your learners to the Services management team and Learning and Development team.
- Ensure adherence to established clinical policies, protocols, regulations, and guidelines to provide support to new staff and improve the care provided is in accordance with the latest studies and practices.
- To attend rostered shifts as defined in the off-duty and to be flexible to cover training/supervision and competency assessments for day and night staff as required.
- To ensure concepts learnt during training sessions you attend are demonstrated and embedded into practice.
- To always deliver care to the highest standard, upholding Fairlie Healthcares core values and values framework, the Department of Health in conjunction with Skills for Cares Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers and Adult Health and Social Care Workers in England, as well as CQCs framework, ensuring that the care delivered is safe, caring, effective, responsive, and well led.
- To follow the Clinical Governance Framework and adverse event reporting procedures as per Fairlie Healthcares policy and procedures to identify and report any adverse events, particularly in respect of patient safety or other reportable events, such as raising concerns about the competency of a member of staff.
- Although working within your allocated role and department, there may be times that it is necessary to redeploy you to a clinical floor to ensure clinical risk can be managed throughout the Home.
- Maintain confidentiality and follow up to date guidelines in relation to Information Governance and GDPR regulations
The successful candidates will be required to assess and support learners, via field-base observation, who are working towards building their skillset and competencies within their role at Fairlie Healthcare. More specifically, the individual appointed will help drive improvements in practice and facilitate both group and one to one based learning through in-service trainings, demonstrations, supervisions, and observations of staff new to care completing their Care Certificate.
What do I need to be successful?
For this role, you are required to have the following attributes:
- YouMusthave full right to work in the UKwithout sponsorship(we are not accepting candidates on a student visa and skilled workers)
- Candidates should be able to demonstrate some, or all of the following:
- Safe and competent patient care
- Understanding of, or previous experience assessing the Care Certificate
- Teaching/mentoring skills
- Ability to present in both a group and one to one setting
- Effective communication skills (writing and verbal)
Whats in it for me?
- Genuine career progression and development opportunities
- Paid Breaks
- Onsite parking
- Free meals whilst working on shift.
- Company Pension Scheme
- Free staff minibus service at the start and end of your shift
- Free staff uniform and DBS
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- New and improved starter induction programme
- Comprehensive on the job training & support
Equal Opportunities
Fairlie Healthcare are an equal opportunities employer, who value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
The successful candidate will be required to undertake a DBS check.
