Registered General Nurse

Salary: £21.6 – £24 per hour

My client runs Several Nursing Homes in Guernsey and require a Registered Nurse to join their team on permanent nights. As a Registered General Nurse, you’re at the heart of making a difference to their residents and will value kindness above all. As a highly respected member of their team, you will play a vital role. You’re accountable for making sure policies and standards meet their high clinical standard and offering clinical guidance to an experienced and stable care team.

Being a Registered Nurse means taking responsibility for the well-being of their residents, including making sure their physical, emotional, and social needs are met. Leading, motivating, and mentoring your team and delivering clinical guidance and training to ensure the safe, smooth and efficient running of the care home. Carrying out assessments and developing, implementing, and evaluating individualised care plans for each of their residents. Monitoring work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and conform to relevant standards, policies, and legislation. Generally promoting their residents’ independence, choice, dignity, and respect by delivering the very best standards of care and striving for continuous improvement.

The Role

To take responsibility for ensuring:

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

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

that the policies and procedures of Nursing Home 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.

Responsible for ensuring care plans are updated and evaluated as allocated on a daily basis

that the home is run efficiently, safely and smoothly in the absence of the Manager or Senior Nurse.

Principle accountabilities

1. Ensuring that personal practice is in accordance with the NMC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives.
2. 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.
3. Ensuring that care is assessed, planned, implemented, evaluated and fully documented using a person-centred approach for each resident. 
4. For the allocated group of residents, ensuring that each resident’s care is reviewed regularly, and that residents and families / representatives are fully involved.
5. Ensuring that personal care practices are current and research-based wherever possible, maintaining and updating personal knowledge.
6. Ensure a clinical entry is made in every resident daily records at least once a shift
7. Completing accident and incident records whenever necessary. If in doubt, a record should be completed.
8. Reporting adverse issues in a timely fashion to the Manager as appropriate.
9. Reporting issues to the statutory authorities if necessary (e.g. CQC via statutory notification forms and SoVA) in the absence of the Manager
10. Communicating effectively with residents, relatives, staff, and external professionals.
11. Assisting in ensuring health and safety, including verifying that staff are following safe systems of work.
12. Ensuring that personal practice in medicines handling, administration, ordering and storage is safe, and compliant with legislation and current guidance issued by the NMC and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
13. Providing clinical support to other registered nurses where required.
14. 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.
15. Supporting the Manager as required, ensuring that they are appropriately informed, and ensuring actions requested by these Managers are promptly implemented.
16. Responsible for hands on clinical care as part of the staff team 
17. 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.

Package

Full time Hours (night shift only)

7 shifts per fortnight 

Hourly Rate of £21.6 – £24DOE

Residential Accommodation available