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Staff Nurse

Employer
Highfield House
Location
Croydon
Salary
TBC
Closing date
28 Aug 2019

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Staff Nurse at Highfield House

Overview

  • To provide high quality, evidence-based nursing care to Residents admitted to the Home.
  • To deliver high quality, evidence-based and Resident focused clinical care.
  • To work effectively as part of the immediate team and wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
  • To uphold a duty of care and clinical governance.
  • To maintain own and others’ knowledge of clinical excellence.

Delivering high quality, evidence-based and patient focused clinical care through:

  • Delivering a high standard of evidence-based care to Residents.
  • Ensuring good standards of care for the Resident are maintained at all times.
  • Adhering to NMC Code of Professional conduct at all times.
  • Involving and supporting Residents, relatives, carers and friends in the care process.
  • Promoting well-being and involving Residents and relatives in health education.
  • Ensuring clear and accurate written and verbal information is given at all times.
  • Ensuring contemporaneous record keeping at all times.
  • Seeking advice from more senior/experienced members of staff where appropriate.

Working effectively as part of the immediate team and wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT) through:

  • Liaising effectively with all members of the MDT to ensure Resident’s needs are met.
  • Exercising leadership and taking the initiative where appropriate.
  • Providing support and advice to staff (especially junior staff) on clinical and administrative issues.
  • Keeping the Sister/ Charge Nurse informed of significant changes and/or anticipated problems.

Upholding a duty of care and clinical governance through:

  • Observing a general duty of care for the health, safety and well-being of yourself, work colleagues, visitors and Residents within the Home.
  • Ensuring the rules, policies, procedures and standards of the Home together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations are adhered to at all times.
  • Maintaining Resident confidentiality, dignity and privacy at all times.
  • Adhering to the Home’s policy on valuing equality and diversity and showing due regard for each Resident’s cultural and religious beliefs, gender, ethnicity, age and sexuality.
  • Strictly adhering to the Home’s Infection Control Protocols, policies and procedures.

Maintaining own and others’ knowledge of clinical excellence through:

  • Taking responsibility for your own personal development and keeping up to date with nursing knowledge.
  • Being aware of current research and the implications for the speciality.
  • Acting as a role model at all times and for all staff.
  • Acting as practice supervisor and/or preceptor/mentor for junior and newly-qualified staff.
  • Working with appropriate members of the teaching staff to ensure effective staff development (own and others).
  • Participating in the Home’s initiatives to develop nursing practice and support change.

General

  • To maintain strict confidentiality of staff and Residents records, in line with The Home’s Information Governance Policy: any unauthorised breach of confidentiality will result in disciplinary action.
  • To ensure that acceptable standards of data protection are maintained, in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
  • To observe the rules, policies and procedures in place at the Home.
  • To carry out duties as an employee and service-provider with due regard to the Home’s Equal Opportunities Policy.
  • To participate in team meetings as required.
  • Under the Health & Safety at Work Act, the post holder has a general duty of care for the health, safety and well-being of oneself, work colleagues, visitors and Residents within the Home in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with this post.
  • To undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade, which may be required from time to time.

Working Conditions

  • This job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not intended to be definitive or restrictive. It is expected that some of the duties will change over time and this description will be subject to review in consultation with the post-holder.

https://www.fairliehealthcare.co.uk/job/staff-nurse-at-highfield-house/

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Company

Highfield House is a 45 bed specialist nursing home for the care of adults, (18+) living with long term neurological conditions. 37 of these beds provide long term care for adults with complex nursing needs, including those on ventilator support and with tracheostomies and those in altered states of consciousness.

We provide person centred nursing care and therapy services which are individually tailored to the needs of each patient at the Home, in line with our six core values of dignity, privacy, choice, independence, rights and fulfilment. Our clinical governance framework and our risk management strategies ensure that the care and therapy delivered is safe, caring, responsive and effective. Our management structure and the support we offer to our registered managers and clinical support managers ensure the Home is well led, to enable them to focus on maintaining and developing standards of care. We are striving to achieve ‘Outstanding’ across all five CQC Domains.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0208 763 2060
Location
92 Higher Drive
Purley
Croydon
CR8 2HJ
GB

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