The role of Unit Nurse Manager (RGN) at a Barchester care home involves using compassion and initiative to ensure residents receive quality care. The successful candidate will plan, manage, and monitor the delivery of nursing to meet residents' needs, including implementing person-centered care plans. Responsibilities also include staff management, building relationships with regulators and social services, and professional development opportunities.
Main duties of the job
As a Unit Nurse Manager (General) at a Barchester care home, you'll use your compassion and initiative to make sure our residents get the quality care they deserve. You'll plan, manage and monitor the delivery of nursing that meets all of our residents' needs, implementing person-centred care plans that make a real difference to our residents' day-to-day lives. You'll also be responsible for planning rotas, recruiting, training and mentoring staff, and building relationships with local regulators and social services. You'll have the freedom and autonomy to take your unit from strength to strength, with plenty of opportunities for professional development along the way.
About us
Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes and specialist care services in the UK. They are committed to delivering high-quality, person-centered care and supporting their staff's professional development. Barchester operates over 200 care homes across the country, providing a range of care services to meet the diverse needs of their residents.
Job responsibilities
ABOUT THE ROLE As a Unit Nurse Manager (General) at a Barchester care home, you'll use your compassion and initiative to make sure our residents get the quality care they deserve. We'll look to you to plan, manage and monitor the delivery of nursing that meets all of our residents' needs. This means you'll implement person-centred care plans that make a real difference to our residents' day-to-day lives. As part of your wide range of responsibilities, you can expect to plan rotas, recruit, train and mentor staff and build relationships with local regulators and social services. In the role of Unit Nurse Manager (General), you'll have the freedom and autonomy to take your unit from strength to strength, with plenty of opportunities for professional development along the way.
This position is a 1 year fixed term contract with potential to go permanent, it includes alternate weekend working, 48 hours per week up to £22.00ph.
ABOUT YOU To join us as a Unit Nurse Manager (General), you'll need to be a Registered Nurse (RGN) with a current NMC registration. Experience in producing well-developed care plans and detailed risk assessments is important, as is an up-to-date knowledge of recent clinical practices and regulatory frameworks, including DoLs/MCA and Royal Pharmaceutical guidelines. You'll be a natural leader who has 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 In return for your dedication, you'll receive a competitive salary plus our sector-leading benefits and rewards package including: NMC registration paid every year, free training and development for all roles, access to wellbeing and support tools, a range of retail discounts and savings, 'Nurse Mentor' and 'Refer a Friend' bonus schemes, and an offer to pay Health & Care Worker Visa immigration fees (for eligible nurses).
If you'd like to use your clinical and people skills in an organisation 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 us as a Unit Nurse Manager (General), you'll need to be a Registered Nurse (RGN) with a current NMC registration. Experience in producing well-developed care plans and detailed risk assessments is important, as is an up-to-date knowledge of recent clinical practices and regulatory frameworks, including DoLs/MCA and Royal Pharmaceutical guidelines. You'll be a natural leader who has acted as a clinical mentor, including supporting newly qualified nurses through their preceptorship.
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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