Charge Nurse- Care Home
Hours: 48hrs per week / Nights
Salary - £23.45 per hour
Location: Lasswade, Lothian, EH18 1HT
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Charge Nurse at a Care Centre, youll use your compassion and experience to make sure our client's teams are delivering the quality care they are known for. Well look to you to provide clinical leadership to everyone from junior nurses to clinical practitioners. Youll set an example by building meaningful relationships with our client's patients living with conditions such as dementia and brain injuries which cause a range of complex behaviours.
Youll assess each patients physical, psychological and social needs and collaborate with their families to create care plans, as well as evaluate them against their changing needs. Day-to-day, well also rely on you to allocate key workers to patients, orientate new staff and mentor them to the highest standards of care. You can also expect to support our client's senior clinical staff and assist with investigations or complaints just one of the ways youll make sure were always treating our client's patients with dignity and respect. As a Charge Nurse, youll make a real difference to the lives of your patients, their families and your team.
ABOUT YOU
To join as a Charge Nurse youll need to be a Registered Nurse with a current NMC registration and supervision qualification. Experience in producing well-developed care plans and 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. Well also look for extensive nursing experience in a mental health setting, in particular caring for patients with dementia. Youll be a natural leader who has acted as a clinical mentor, including supporting newly qualified nurses through their preceptorship. Dedicated, ambitious and resilient, youll have a strong track record of delivering improvements to achieve quality care.
REWARDS PACKAGE
As well as a competitive salary, our client offers one of the best rewards packages in the care sector. Your generous benefits would include:
- Free learning and development
- A range of holiday, retail and leisure discounts
- Nurse Mentor and Refer a Friend bonus schemes
If youd like to use your clinical and leadership skills in an organisation that provides the quality care youd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding and empowering place to be.
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Job Reference CTNPO5309
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