Staff Nurse Scone

Staff Nurse - Attractive Salary

Client - Scotland's largest privately owned provider of care in nursing homes, residential care homes and advanced specialist care centres. Currently, our expert staff of almost eight hundred are caring for up to eight hundred residents in twenty-two of our state of the art care homes. Our staff pride themselves on ensuring that our residents enjoy the highest standard of individual and personalised care. Importantly, we recognise the right of every resident to be treated as an individual rather than focusing on just their age or their condition.

THE ROLE - Registered Nurse reporting to Home Manager - To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the resident's needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES
*To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the resident's needs
*To create and maintain with the home's staff an environment in which all members of staff can contribute to the maximum of their ability in providing a high standard of skilled nursing care to the service users and encourage recognition of the service user as an Individual. (See Charter of Rights of Service Users)
*To enable residents to live a fuller life style within the nature of their capability/disability
*To know what is meant by British Standard, what constitutes this standard and how it assists the home to maintain and promote standards of care and administration in the home
*To demonstrate awareness of how clinical procedures related to residents care are carried out and administered to maintain their well being and to prevent symptoms of ill being
*To demonstrate dissemination of information and reporting to Manager
*To recognise the legal implications of nursing documentation
*To be aware of demonstrate relevant statutory legislation and company policies and procedures e.g. CS Act, NMC guidelines, Health and Safety (see role specification)
*To adhere to all procedures (see Policies & Procedures Manuals) implemented in the Home and demonstrate understanding in practice
*To assess, implement and evaluate care for the residents

PERSON SPEC

*RMN/RNLD with a valid NMC Pin number
*Previous experience in a nursing care home
*Well-organised self-starter, who can multi-task in a demanding environment
*Excellent written and oral communication skills
*Flexibility to work shift patterns
*Ability to create, update and maintain thorough documentation
*Good leader (vision, values, standards, ethos) and coach ( delegate, exception manage, support)
*To be assertive and confident
*To be person-centred
*Good interpersonal skills
Solutions Driven Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Job Reference:   JMCG/SN/PIT

Closing Date:     27-Jun-2012

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