Senior Nurse (up to £2000 welcome payment)

Senior Nurse (up to £2000 welcome payment)

 

            Sturminster Newton, Dorset

 

Up to £24.12 per hour including all enhancements

 

36 or 42 hours p/w, days and / or nights, including alternate weekends

 

Sunday 14 July 2019

 

Newstone House

 

       

 

Join Colten Care as a Senior Nurse and receive a Warm Welcome Bonus of £2000!* terms apply

 

 

 

Senior Registered Nurse

 

 

 

Hours offered as 36 or 42 hours per week, days and / or nights, including alternate weekends

 

 

 

From £20.32 p/h to £24.12 p/h, including all enhancements

 

 

 

Based at Newstone House, Sturminster Newton 

 

 

 

 

 

About you

 

 

 

Firstly, you will be a qualified Registered Nurse / Staff Nurse ( RGN / RMN ) with a current NMC PIN registration, ideally working in a senior capacity.

 

 

 

You will be able to demonstrate how you have proactively updated your knowledge and clinical skills, bringing your experience and passion for elderly nursing to this role.

 

 

 

Sharing our goal of delivering excellence in person-centred nursing care, you will be confident to work to high standards in line with the expectations of Colten Care and the Care Quality Commission, providing a kind, caring and friendly service.

 

 

 

At Colten Care, we are small enough to get to know you and care about your individual needs, yet large enough to offer excellent onward career opportunities within the Colten Care group and we regularly promote from within.

 

 

 

 

 

About the role

 

 

 

As the Senior Nurse, your role will be key in leading the nursing and care teams within the home supported by the Clinical Lead. 

 

 

 

You’ll ensure that effective, individualised nursing care is delivered by the nursing and care teams, maintaining the highest standards and providing our residents with independence and choice. You’ll proactively engage in the development of Nurses and Health Care Assistants, improving the skills and confidence of the team to ensure objectives are achieved to meet both company standards and those of our regulators.

 

 

 

As a Senior Nurse with impressive clinical skills you will need to demonstrate strong clinical capability within the nursing team, taking responsibility for a variety of complex clinical conditions and decisions.  You will promote best practice in matters of wound management, nutrition, tissue viability, catheterisation, venepuncture, peg feeds, syringe drivers, end of life care and other acute clinical interventions.

 

 

 

We have created environments within our nursing homes where you can take the initiative and lead the care teams using your excellent clinical skills and knowledge to deliver the highest standards of nursing care. 

 

 

 

Other duties will include carrying out clinical audits, assessing and updating individual care plans and covering the role of Clinical Lead for the home in their absence.

 

 

 

Please enquire if you need a Tier 2 VISA Certificate of Sponsorship - (not applicable if you apply via a recruitment agency)

 

 

 

*Terms of warm welcome bonus. If successfully appointed, you will be paid as follows:

 

 

 

£500 paid after completion of four week’s service £500 after successful completion of probation, usually at 3 months £1000 on your 1st year anniversary of service  

 

All payments are subject to tax and NI.  You will not be eligible for payment if you resign during these periods.

 

 

 

 

 

About our benefits

 

 

 

competitive rates of pay plus excellent enhancements for nights and weekends reimbursement of annual professional NMC registration subscription support with studies and diploma qualifications relevant to job role excellent induction, training and ‘on the job’ support provision of fantastic homely environments friendly teams and great support networks of internal professionals real career progression opportunities staff recommendation scheme – refer a friend annual pay review paid breaks additional hours / overtime opportunities hot meals on duty, choose from the daily menu free uniforms provided contributory pension scheme background checks at no cost to you Nursing Times on line subscription paid to support on-going professional learning support with revalidation    

 

 

 

About us

 

 

 

Colten Care is an expanding family-owned business with 21 beautifully appointed care homes across Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and West Sussex. 

 

 

 

Our established services are all rated as ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and we provide residential, general nursing, dementia and short-stay care.

 

 

 

We are a prestigious, award-winning healthcare provider that champions the latest approaches to person-centred care. Each of our homes has a distinct character while retaining that all-important sense of ‘home.’ We play an active role in furthering dementia friendly communities as part of our work. 

 

 

 

Our aims are simple: to be recognised as both the care home ‘provider of choice’ and ‘employer of choice.’ 

 

 

 

 

 

More contact info

 

 

 

We'd love to hear from you; call the recruitment team for more details on 01425 460955

 

 

 

All appointments are subject to satisfactory background checks including a police and safeguarding check with the Disclosure & Barring Service and two employment references.