Job summary
Your knowledge and understanding of elderly care and experience of involving residents, families or carers in care planning, monitoring and evaluating services is essential.
With fantastic relationship building skills, you'll share our commitment to creating an inclusive culture, where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
The Nurses on the front line of our Adults Health and Care service do so much more than care, they transform lives. Our Nurses are caregivers, advocates and true heroes of healthcare.We value them for the fantastic work they do.
Choose a career with us and join our friendly, committed and supportive team, as part of the largest care provider in Hampshire.
You'll have access to a wealth of rewarding career choices, plus our extensive Benefits package.
Main duties of the job
Our homesprovide the right environment for you to deliver theoutstanding careour residents deserve.As a qualified Nurse with current NMC registration, youll be responsible for the whole patient experience, dealing with clinical diagnosis and treatment.
Surrounded by a well-resourced multi-disciplinary team, youll be fully supported in your role to provide the highest quality, person-centred care to our residents.
As a Nurse you'll deliver a broad range of healthcare services to older people
with mental and physical health needs, offering long term dementia care and bed
based reablement for hospital leavers, so no two days are ever the same.
You'll deal with clinical diagnosis and treatment, be responsible for the whole
patient experience and build relationships with the people in your care. Our
residents are at the heart of everything we do, and our sole aim is to give them
the dignity, respect and independence they deserve.
About us
Our location Fleming House is a 55 bed nursing and residential home on the outskirts of Eastleigh comprising of 30 nursing beds and 25 residential beds.
The home features a sunny, part paved / part grassed garden that is fully accessible to wheelchair users with plenty of seating so residents and visitors can enjoy the outside space. We have all the latest equipment to meet our residents needs along with a relaxed, welcoming and homely atmosphere.
Two hairdressers visit weekly and a chiropodist visits every other week. There is also a small shop on site that sells a variety of items including toiletries and sweets.
Our in house activity programme includes games, trips out, visiting entertainment and one to one sessions and we encourage families to attend. We encourage residents to be as independent as possible to enhance their quality of life and ensure a sense of wellbeing and fulfilment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In this role you will be responsible for:
- Provision of person-centred, professional nursing care to residents within Older Adults nursing homes and Short-Term Services.
- Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care plans for a designated number of residents.
- Maintaining accurate records on resident care and reporting clinical and non- clinical events to assist with internal and external audits.
- Supervising, mentoring, supporting and educating more junior staff in the home.
- Liaising with other healthcare professionals and work in collaboration with
- other members of the multidisciplinary team, ensuring a timely escalation when needed.
- Promoting good practice to achieve continuous improvements in nursing care and assist with audit trials and bench marking clinical services within the home.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In this role you will be responsible for:
- Provision of person-centred, professional nursing care to residents within Older Adults nursing homes and Short-Term Services.
- Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care plans for a designated number of residents.
- Maintaining accurate records on resident care and reporting clinical and non- clinical events to assist with internal and external audits.
- Supervising, mentoring, supporting and educating more junior staff in the home.
- Liaising with other healthcare professionals and work in collaboration with
- other members of the multidisciplinary team, ensuring a timely escalation when needed.
- Promoting good practice to achieve continuous improvements in nursing care and assist with audit trials and bench marking clinical services within the home.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Nurse with current NMC registration.
Experience
Essential
- Good knowledge and understanding of elderly care and the Health and Social Care agenda.
- Good working knowledge of clinical governance standards.
- Experience of working in a relevant health or social care setting.
- Experience of involving residents/families or carers in care planning,
- monitoring and evaluating services.
- Good clinical skills.
- Able to provide direct care for the client group you'll be working with and have an understanding of how care is delivered in a social care setting.
- Good communication skills (verbal and written).
- Basic IT skills/or a willingness to undertake training.
- Good organisational skills for managing your own time.
- Able to work as part of a team.
- Be responsible, accountable and flexible when making decisions.
- Able to identify new developments in Health and suggest relevant changes for service.
- Able to build and sustain positive and professional relationships with residents, families, carers, other professionals and colleagues.
- Able to support and mentor students and more junior colleagues within the team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Nurse with current NMC registration.
Experience
Essential
- Good knowledge and understanding of elderly care and the Health and Social Care agenda.
- Good working knowledge of clinical governance standards.
- Experience of working in a relevant health or social care setting.
- Experience of involving residents/families or carers in care planning,
- monitoring and evaluating services.
- Good clinical skills.
- Able to provide direct care for the client group you'll be working with and have an understanding of how care is delivered in a social care setting.
- Good communication skills (verbal and written).
- Basic IT skills/or a willingness to undertake training.
- Good organisational skills for managing your own time.
- Able to work as part of a team.
- Be responsible, accountable and flexible when making decisions.
- Able to identify new developments in Health and suggest relevant changes for service.
- Able to build and sustain positive and professional relationships with residents, families, carers, other professionals and colleagues.
- Able to support and mentor students and more junior colleagues within the team.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
