Job Title: Registered Nurse
Location: Blackheath, Greenwich
Salary: £21.64 Per Hour
Job Type: Permanent – Part Time (31 hrs per week over 2 or 3 days per week)
About us:
Morden College has more than 250 older people living in Almshouse accommodation on two sites in Blackheath and Beckenham and in our Care Home. We are committed to providing services that support our residents to live independent and healthy lives. As well as independent living, our Blackheath site is also home to the Morden College Care Home. As part of the Morden College team, you will be committed to challenging ageism, promoting healthy ageing, and combatting loneliness while promoting equity, diversity and inclusion within communities. You will be comfortable with using technology to deliver consistent, equitable, and sustainable services at all times across the charity. You will be a role model for our values and committed to a purposeful, responsible community that is a great place to live and work.
About the role and who we are looking for:
- To provide professional nursing leadership to the care team during any span of duty, ensuring a high standard of nursing care is provided to residents, delegating care activities to other care staff as appropriate and in accordance with NMC Code.
- To promote resident wellbeing, security, and safety by assessing, monitoring and evaluating individual care needs in partnership with the resident.
- To be responsible for ensuring the principles of the Mental Capacity Act (2005).
- Participate in an ongoing programme of tailored and meaningful activities focused on maximising wellbeing, independence, and social engagement.
- Create and effectively maintain clear, accurate care records including care plans and assessment documents.
- To maintain good communication with families, GPs and other professionals.
- Be responsible for the Health and Safety of staff and residents on shift, and ensure incidents, accidents, near misses and events reports and root cause analysis are completed and submitted at the end of each shift.
Main duties and responsibilities
- Take responsibility and be accountable for the care provided to residents with nursing care needs whilst you are on shift – delegate care to care workers and senior care workers appropriately and in accordance with the NMC Code to meet the resident’s physical, psychological, spiritual and social care
- Undertake assessments of potential residents and work in partnership with the resident, their friends / family / advocates; advising on procedures relevant to admission and any changes which may occur throughout the resident’s stay, ensuring that risks are identified and managed and care is evidence based to meet the needs of residents.
- To be familiar with Cullum Welch Court Policies and Procedures, cascading and interpreting information for the team to ensure compliance and understanding and safe practice, whilst providing a compassionate, warm and caring environment.
- Promote resident wellbeing, security and safety by walking the floor, being visible and personally engaging in care, to include admissions, day to day personal care, (including answering of call bells), ensuring any changes in a resident’s condition is recorded and reported to the appropriate health or social care professional in a timely manner and that safe, caring and kind practice is followed by all staff.
- To work with the Deputy Manager to scrutinise incidents, accidents, near misses and events, take measures where possible to prevent reoccurrence and document lessons learned.
- To be the named worker of specific residents, monitoring their physical, psychological, and social care needs, wellbeing, and personal preferences, including meaningful occupation and activities, dietary preferences, weight change etc to ensure person centred care is practised and timely interventions are implemented, as necessary.
- Support the team in day-to-day activities, such as preparing light meals/snacks as required, washing up, cleaning spillages etc.
- Undertake mandatory and legislative training and keep up to date.
Skills, Qualifications and Experience
- Registered with NMC as RN1: Adult nurse, level 1 or RNA: Adult nurse, level 1
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing or health related subject or equivalent experience
- Postgraduate Certificate in Palliative Care
- Minimum 24 months post registration experience in a hospital or community setting
- Teaching and mentoring qualification or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 12 months experience as medication management/competency assessor able to supervise, train and assess the competency of others in medication management and administration.
- Able to evidence completion of continuing professional development, with a focus on evidence based practice.
- IT literacy specifically Microsoft packages and EMIS.
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