This is a Senior Nurse role at a Barchester Healthcare care home in Aberdeen. The role involves providing clinical leadership, mentoring the nursing team, and ensuring the highest standards of nursing care for the residents. The successful candidate will have a range of responsibilities, including assessing resident needs, implementing safeguarding policies, and administering medications.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Nurse (General) at a Barchester care home, you'll use your leadership skills to make sure our residents get the quality care we're known for. You'll be a hands-on clinical leader, creating a safe and supportive environment for our residents with a range of mental and physical needs. You'll use your professional judgement to make critical clinical decisions, from assessing the needs of a new resident to implementing safeguarding policies and administering medicines in line with NMC regulations. You'll also support and mentor your team to ensure they have the clinical training they need to deliver the highest standards of nursing.
About us
Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK. They are committed to providing high-quality care and support to their residents, with a focus on creating a warm and welcoming environment. The company has a strong reputation for its dedication to staff development and career progression opportunities.
Job responsibilities
A £2,000 'Golden Hello' Welcome Bonus is just one of the ways we'll reward you when you join Barchester in this role.
ABOUT THE ROLE As a Senior Nurse (General) at a Barchester care home, you'll use your leadership skills to ensure our residents receive quality care. You'll be a hands-on clinical leader, creating a safe and supportive environment for residents with various mental and physical needs. You'll make critical clinical decisions, assess new residents' needs, implement safeguarding policies, and administer medicines per NMC regulations. Additionally, you'll support and mentor your team to ensure they have the necessary clinical training to deliver high standards of nursing. As a Senior Nurse (General), you'll have the freedom and autonomy to do things the right way and be truly valued and respected for your contributions.
ABOUT YOU To join us as a Senior Nurse (General), you'll need to be a Registered Nurse (RGN) with current NMC registration and a mentoring or supervision qualification. Experience in producing care plans and detailed risk assessments is important, as is an up-to-date knowledge of recent clinical practices. An understanding of regulatory frameworks, including DoLs/MCA and Royal Pharmaceutical guidelines, is essential. You'll be a natural leader and problem solver who has worked with older people and acted as a clinical mentor, supporting newly qualified nurses through their preceptorship. Dedicated, ambitious, and resilient, you'll have a strong track record of delivering improvements to achieve quality care.
REWARDS PACKAGE As well as a competitive salary, Barchester offers one of the best rewards packages in the care sector. Your generous benefits would include:
* Free learning and development
* Automatic enrolment into our profit share scheme
* A range of holiday, retail, and leisure discounts
* Nurse Mentor and Refer a Friend bonus schemes
* Offer to pay Skilled Worker visa application fee for eligible nurses
If you'd like to use your clinical and people skills in an organization that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding and empowering place to be.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* To join as a Senior Nurse (General), you'll need to be a Registered Nurse (RGN) with a current NMC registration and a mentoring or supervision qualification.
* Experience in producing care plans, conducting detailed risk assessments, and up-to-date knowledge of the most recent clinical practices are required.
* Strong leadership, problem-solving, and mentoring skills are also essential.
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.
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