Regional Care Nurse Lead
Full-Time:, Monday to Friday
Home-Based – Brighton and Hove Area
Pay: £44,850 - £48,750 per annum
HomeCareDirect are currently seeking a Regional Care NurseLead to join their team on a full-time basis. You will be home and community based and will work autonomously, managing your own caseload of clients living with a range of complex health needs in the Brighton and Hove area.
Your role is to ensure that the people you support are given the best opportunities to remain healthy and out of hospital, whilst assisting them to ensure their lives are enriched and they are achieving their goals.
This is a support management position to help people to live an independent life in line with their care and support plan. Your role is to ensure that the people who use the HomeCareDirect service are supported to achieve their goals and aspirations to care standards whilst making a success out of directly their own support at home.
You will have a client caseload to provide ongoing visits to create care and support plans, undertake annual support reviews, risk assessments, personal assistant inductions, supervisions, team and MDT meetings and other visits as necessary to keep the person safe.
Key Tasks:
1. Support the person (and their family where appropriate) to live independently and direct their own support whilst working closely with the HomeCareDirect Independent Living Team to solve problems with a pro-active 'can-do' attitude and approach
2. Support the person in their support at home, to meet their assessed needs
3. Be pro-active to improve the quality of life of the person living at home
4. Visit prospective new service users at home or in hospital to provide information and advice on how HomeCareDirect can help people to live independently at home
5. Create the care and support plan to meet the assessed needs in partnership with the person whilst assessing the training needs of their personal assistant(s) to the professional standards to which you are qualified
6. Undertake risk assessments for both the person and their personal assistant(s) and report any non-compliance to head office
7. Complete documentation to the timescales required to meet professional standards
8. Work in partnership with the HomeCareDirect head office to help ensure that Health & Safety standards are met
9. Undertake interviews and supervision of personal assistant(s) in partnership with the client
10. Undertake clinical observations of the personal assistant(s) in line with their role
11. Visit the client as often as indicated in the support plan with a minimum of twice yearly supervisions for personal assistants
12. Undertake annual support reviews to CQC standards