Location: Kelso
Salary: £52,000
Schedule: Monday-Friday with flexibility for on call cover
My client is looking for a Registered Manager with a clinical background to be responsible for overall leadership and management of 3 care units (59 -bed) based in Kelso. The Registered Manager will be working closely with the Assistant Care Managers and nursing team to create and maintain a professional, warm and caring environment for the Residents and their families. This is a not-for-profit charity supporting the elderly.
We are looking for someone who will present themselves as a role model and a skilled communicator. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will play a key role in their esteemed, award-winning organisation. A crucial aspect of your role will involve engaging directly with residents families, their broader circles, the Care Inspectorate, Management team, and other multidisciplinary professionals.
Responsibilities:
* To be responsible for the overall leadership, management and supervision of all staff over the 3 units.
To be the Care Inspectorate Registered Manager for 2 care home registrations.
* Ensure robust professional leadership to meet and exceed the expected standards to the regulators, residents and relatives
* Ensuring all personnel provide high quality person-centred care
* Consistency, clinical Governance and Regulatory Compliance and Reporting
* Providing on call and actual care home cover
* Effective communication, confidentiality, discretion, data protection and safeguarding.
* To support the facilitation of student placements, work opportunities and volunteering as appropriate and act as the lead assessor and placement validator for nursing students.
* To ensure the direction for the chief Executive on the organisational strategic vision and direction of care.
* To take direction from the Chief Executive on the organisational strategic vision and the direction of the care.
* To supervise the audit of the accurate records of resident care and home maintenance.
* T work closely with the nursing team to support the clinical needs of the residents.
* To undertake responsibility for the safe custody for the residents belongings and oversee the bookkeeping and financial expenditure of the home alongside the business and finance managers by managing the budget for each department.
* To maintain exceptional material standards within the houses.
* To act as a role model for all care staff, by training, coaching and educating.
* To support the Assistant Care Managers in rota management to meet care needs.
* Manage and resolve concerns, complaints and family conflict.
* Liaise with the HR manager for the purpose of undertaking investigations, disciplinary hearings and performance management.
Required Qualifications
* Registered Nurse (RGN/RMN) or holds a degree of post graduate professional qualification in health and social care.
* Relevant work experience including overseeing other employees for a period of 5 years in a supported living, home care or care home environment.
* SVQ level 4 in leadership and management or equivalent (desirable)