Position Overview
If you're an experienced, compassionate nurse (RGN/RMN) looking to improve the lives of people with long-term care needs, we can offer you a rewarding career at Churchill House. By providing the highest quality of nursing care, you'll be helping to improve and sustain our residents' quality of life. Leading and supporting a care team, you'll:
Responsibilities
* Provide high-quality nursing care to our residents.
* Responsible for clinical assessment of residents, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented, and evaluated, involving residents and users.
* Promote the rights, interests, needs and choices of carers and people with dementia in the planning, delivery and evaluation of care and services.
* Liaise with GPs, case managers, primary health care practitioners, statutory and voluntary agencies to support our residents.
* Effectively communicate information regarding clinical decisions, policy and care pathways to residents/carers and the multi-professional team, including situations where difficulties in comprehension occur.
* Maintain clinical records and provide verbal and written feedback appropriately and as required to carers, persons with dementia and referring agencies and professional colleagues.
* Utilise and ensure others utilise information and IT systems to secure accurate and timely resident, workforce and resource data.
* Integrate into practice current knowledge of dementia care, informed by research and other evidence.
* Provide a flexible approach to the rota to meet the needs of the home.
Qualifications
* Valid RGN NMC Registration.
* Previous experience within a similar setting is desirable but not essential.
* A minimum of 1 year’s experience as a Registered Nurse.
* Clear understanding of CQC standards and legislation.
* Strong leadership, highly clinically skilled, well organized, able to take the lead.
* Great written and verbal communication skills.
* Previous experience with PCS and electronic care planning.
* Able to inspire, motivate and lead by example.
About Welford Healthcare
Welford Healthcare was founded in 2017 with the goal of building a boutique collection of quality care homes across the UK. Our strategy is to grow our business by acquiring mature care homes with quality foundations and strong potential for improvement and by investing in our people and our properties to ensure our homes are always inviting and homely. While we are a growing business, we never lose sight of our primary and enduring purpose: to provide good quality care for vulnerable adults. As we acquire new homes, we leverage our resources and expertise to ensure that the homes we run always have our residents’ wellbeing at their hearts. Our senior leadership team has extensive experience in operating, opening and acquiring quality care homes with proven track records in regulatory compliance and running commercially successful businesses where meeting the needs and ensuring the happiness of our residents and our teams are the cornerstones of our approach.
Benefits
* Free/on-site parking
* Paid breaks
* Brilliant opportunities for career development
* Company pension
* Free uniform and DBS checks
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