Registered Nurse

Job Purpose: To provide a quality nursing service that meets the needs of the residents and fulfils regulatory and organisational requirements. Job Summary: The job sits within Care, which provides older people with high quality nursing and residential care throughout the country. Homes offer a wide range of high quality care options including respite, palliative and specialist dementia care. The job holder will ensure that they fully understand and fulfil their responsibilities in respect of both health and safety and equality and diversity at all times. This profile is not an exhaustive list of duties and other activities may need to be carried out requiring similar skill levels. Key Responsibilities: Provide a quality nursing service that meets the needs of the residents and fulfils regulatory and organisational requirements. Assist in the recruitment, performance management and development of quality staff to ensure that the required skilled staff are available to meet the needs of the service. Attend routine reviews with the wider multi disciplinary team, participate in the completion of health and progress assessments and communicate outcomes to residents, significant others and staff. Build and maintain relationships with internal and external customers, identifying and dealing with any shortfalls in service delivery and ensuring that complaints are dealt with appropriately and escalated when necessary. Prepare and monitor residents'' care plans and supervise the ..... full job details .....