Senior Staff Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

What you'll be working:

42 hours per week, on a rota basis (Monday - Sunday)

*** FULL TIME & PART TIME HOURS AVAILABLE ***

What you'll be doing:

• Acting as Primary Nurse, taking overall responsibility for the nursing input residents receive, through nursing assessments and care planning.
• Contributing towards MDT working, risk assessment management and a programme of on-going clinical improvement.
• Providing written nursing reports for a range of statutory and clinical review processes.
• Work according to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and relevant professional guidelines as a named nurse or key worker for a defined group of patients.
• Work and act as a key member of the team, supporting each patient with achieving their planned outcomes.
• To ensure a comprehensive assessment is completed for the patients/residents/clients to ensure a comprehensive person-centered assessment is completed for their pathway and care plan.
• Take charge of a designated clinical area.
• Ensure all clinical documentation is of a high standard and patient notes are maintained and filed in the appropriate way.

• Provide a highly specialised range of clinical interventions and knowledge of evidence based models of practice relevant to the patients’/residents’ needs.

• Working autonomously with confidence and competence to provide a highly specialised and safe service to the patient.

• Adopt a flexible approach to hours of duty, in order to meet the needs of the service over a 24 hour period.

What you'll have:

• A current NMC Pin registration
• A legal right to work in the UK
• If you have a background working as a band 6 Registered Nurse, or previous experience as a band 5 in a neurological setting.
• Experience of of managing complex patients, utilising advanced clinical reasoning skills to assess, diagnose and implement appropriate nursing support plans. Knowledge of development, clinical training and supervision of support workers.
• You will be able to demonstrate clinical effectiveness by reflecting current evidence base, national guidelines and use of outcome measures.

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident employer.

What to look forward to:

• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Birthday off
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
• Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• Paid NMC Renewal
• Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500 for Nurses, Therapists & Doctors, £500 all other roles, by recommending someone you know
• ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A current NMC Pin registration
• A legal right to work in the UK

Experience

Essential

• If you have a background working as a band 6 Registered Nurse, or previous experience as a band 5 in a neurological setting.
• Experience of of managing complex patients, utilising advanced clinical reasoning skills to assess, diagnose and implement appropriate nursing support plans. Knowledge of development, clinical training and supervision of support workers.
• You will be able to demonstrate clinical effectiveness by reflecting current evidence base, national guidelines and use of outcome measures.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Active Care Group

Address

York - Woodlands

York

Yorkshire

YO10 3HU

Employer's website

https://activecaregroup.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)