Peripatetic Nurse
If you are a nurse that thrives off the excitement of working across a region of care homes, this job may be for you!
Location: Across Wiltshire and Gloucestershire
Rate of Pay: £25.52 per hour
Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week from 07:45-20:15, 3 days per week across any of the 7 days.
Join us as regional nurse working across our care homes in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. This role will give you opportunity and experience to step up your skills as at times, you will be responsible for leading and managing the care team to ensure that high standards of nursing and personal care are met. You will be providing clinical leadership and guidance where necessary. Likewise you will deliver, monitor, and re-evaluate care needs in partnership with each resident, their key carers, family members and the wider team at the home, as well as liaising effectively with GPs, hospitals and external agencies.
The role is incredibly rewarding, and you will regularly be presented with a wide range of clinical experiences to develop your skills and opportunities for career development, all delivered in a nurturing, engaging, and rewarding environment.
About you:
We are looking for a General Nurse or Mental Health Nurse, registered with NMC. You will have post-registration experience, able to evidence continuing professional development activities and comfortable working autonomously. You will have a clear understanding of regulatory frameworks and also have experience of or be willing to train in:
1. Medication administration
2. Catheterisation
3. End of life care
4. Verification of death
5. Syringe drivers
6. Gastrostomy care
7. Venepuncture
8. Diabetic awareness
9. Tissue viability
10. Epilepsy awareness
11. Management of deterioration – sepsis awareness
We would love a positive role model, with excellent communication skills and a natural ability to build positive working relationships. As a supportive leader, you will motivate your team to always deliver the best possible care to our residents. You will be flexible to work across multiple sites; covering shifts where there is absence due to a vacancy, leave or sickness. You will support and mentor both new nurses with their induction and general support for existing nurses. Due to working across multiple sites being a driver with your own car is essential. Also due to the nature of the role, flexibility to work any five days out of seven days of the week would be needed.
What you will get in return:
The rewards for our Nurses are great. Our roles offer greater flexibility in working patterns, more autonomy with decision making, the opportunity to build close relationships with the residents in your care in a consultative, case-management role.
The Trust is a great place to work; we’ve been providing care for almost 1, years and we’re currently the second largest not-for-profit provider in the UK. Not-for-profit means that we reinvest every penny we make into our residents, colleagues and the care homes we live and work in. Therefore, we offer a great range of benefits, including a competitive salary, training and development.
Here are some of the other benefits you will enjoy as a valued member of our team:
12. 30 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
13. Higher rates of pay at weekends
14. Fully funded renewal of your NMC PIN
15. A Company pension
16. Free uniform
17. Free DBS
18. Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
19. Blue Light Card and ‘My Rewards’ programme offering you discounts on shopping, days out, restaurants and much more