The Senior Nurse role at Barchester Healthcare's care home in Poynton offers an excellent opportunity for a Registered Nurse (RGN) with leadership and mentoring experience to make a real difference in the lives of elderly residents. You'll be responsible for delivering high-quality, person-centered care, supporting and developing your nursing team, and ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Nurse (General) at a Barchester care home, you'll use your leadership skills to ensure our residents receive the quality care we're known for. You'll be a hands-on clinical leader, creating a safe and supportive environment for residents with a range of mental and physical needs. You'll make critical clinical decisions, assess new residents, implement safeguarding policies, and administer medicines in line with NMC regulations. You'll also support and mentor your team to ensure they have the clinical training to deliver the highest standards of nursing.
About us
Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care and support services in the UK. With a network of over 200 care homes and healthcare services, Barchester is committed to delivering excellent, person-centered care and supporting its staff to develop their skills and careers.
Job responsibilities
ABOUT THE ROLE As a Senior Nurse (General) at a Barchester care home, you'll use your leadership skills to ensure our residents receive the quality care we're known for. We'll look to you to be a hands-on clinical leader that creates a safe and supportive environment for our residents with a range of mental and physical needs. You'll use your professional judgment 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. As part of your wide range of responsibilities, you'll support and mentor your team to ensure they have the clinical training they need to deliver the highest 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 what you do.
ABOUT YOU To join us 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 and detailed risk assessments is important, as is up-to-date knowledge on the most recent clinical practices. We'll also look for an understanding of regulatory frameworks, including DoLs/MCA and Royal Pharmaceutical guidelines. You'll be a natural leader and problem solver who has worked with older people and acted as a clinical mentor, including 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. You'll also need experience in producing care plans, conducting risk assessments, and an up-to-date knowledge of clinical practices and regulatory frameworks.
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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