Job Title: Registered Nurse
Job Overview:
- To positively support the Deputy Manager in providing leadership to the care staff within the service
- To maintain skills at a current level and undertake such training and development as may, from time-to-time, be required to maintain that currency of practice
- To manage the service in accordance with standards agreed with the Registered Manager, Registered Provider, legislative requirements, relevant regulations, in line with accepted best practice and within the financial plans agreed, from time-to-time, with the Registered Provider
Working Hours: 5 days over a 7-day period, as agreed with the manager.
Role-specific Duties:
The Registered Nurse’s responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- Ensure that service users are at the heart of the care delivery and their wishes and preferences enhance their wellbeing
- Undertake the care planning activities for service users to meet changing physical, psychological and social needs, taking into consideration privacy, dignity, personal choice and informed consent
- Ensure care plans are developed in collaboration with service users, their families and friends (where appropriate) and members of the multidisciplinary team
- Undertake all aspects of medicine management in line with legal, professional and regulatory requirements
- Be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of those individuals supported by the service.
Other Duties:
Other duties and responsibilities to be undertaken may include any (or all) of the items in the following list:
- Seek opportunities for personal and professional growth
- Work within the NMC Code of Conduct
- To provide leadership to the care and nursing functions of the service
- To provide nursing care in accordance with current best practice, according to policy and procedures, agreed standards, legislative requirements, relevant regulations under the direction of the Manager and within the financial plans agreed from time-to-time
