South Coast Nursing Homes is an established and successful, family-owned and managed care home company based in Worthing, West Sussex.
We currently operate 9 homes across East and West Sussex with 411 beds. Each registered home offers the highest standards of resident care and comfort, 24 hours a day, for long and short-term stays.
Reporting to the Home Manager, this role involves working with an experienced clinical team carrying out planned, proactive, and reactive clinical duties.
The team is committed to providing professional, respectful, and quality care within a safe home environment.
This is a hands-on role, and appropriate experience and relevant qualifications will be of paramount importance, as is the commitment to provide a first-class service to all of our residents.
This is a part-time role of 24 hours per week (2 Nights).
Job responsibilities:
* To maintain high standards of patient care ensuring the health, safety, and welfare of all residents.
* To champion patient choice and autonomy, ensuring that all staff work in a dignified and respectful way to all who live and work in the home.
* Support and assist in managing the whole care team when on duty, working in collaboration with colleagues to ensure excellent resident care and exemplary communication is delivered.
* To foster relationships with families, advocates, and NOK, ensuring that they are kept informed of all changes to the residents’ physical and emotional well-being.
* To ensure all documentation is completed in a comprehensive, concise, and time-sensitive manner, including the generation of individualized care plans that must be reviewed and amended when residents' needs change.
* To order medication, store, administer, and manage according to legal, professional, and company policy and procedures.
Skills, qualifications, and knowledge:
Essential:
* Experience in a nursing role.
* A Nursing degree or above.
* Registered with the NMC with a current active PIN.
Desirable:
* Able to prioritize between tasks to achieve the most satisfactory outcome.
* Good reporting skills, both verbal and non-verbal.
* Some experience in managing teams.
* Previous clinical experience in geriatric, frailty, end of life, and dementia care.
What is in it for you:
* £22.00p/h weekdays and £23.10 weekends.
* Access to your pay as you earn it.
* Contributory company pension scheme.
* Health shield employee assistance program.
* Refer a friend scheme.
* Cycle to work scheme.
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