Registered General nurse (Nights, Birchwood) - 05853

Are you a passionate and dedicated Registered Nurse looking to make a real difference to the lives of older people? Birchwood Care Home in Newbury is looking for a Registered General Nurse to join our nursing team, working nights to deliver high-quality, compassionate and person-centred care to residents with a range of complex health and social care needs.

Birchwood is a 60-bed residential and nursing home where residents are at the heart of everything we do. As a Registered Nurse, you will play a vital role in ensuring residents receive safe and effective clinical care throughout the night.

You will work alongside our Residential Care Officers, providing clinical guidance and support, undertaking assessments, managing medication, responding to changing health needs and ensuring residents feel safe, comfortable and well cared for.

This is an opportunity to use your clinical expertise, make a meaningful contribution and become part of a team committed to continuously improving the quality of care we provide.

The role

As a Registered Nurse at Birchwood, your key responsibilities will include:

• Delivering safe, effective and compassionate nursing care, promoting residents' dignity, independence, choices and quality of life.
• Undertaking clinical assessments, developing and reviewing care plans, and monitoring residents' changing health needs.
• Recognising and responding to clinical deterioration, undertaking appropriate observations and escalating concerns to healthcare professionals or emergency services when necessary.
• Administering and managing medication safely, including controlled drugs, PRN and time-critical medicines, in accordance with professional and organisational requirements.
• Undertaking clinical interventions within your competence, including wound care, diabetes management, insulin administration, catheter care and pressure damage prevention.
• Acting as Named Nurse for allocated residents, maintaining oversight of their clinical needs and ensuring accurate and up-to-date records are maintained using Nourish.
• Providing clinical guidance and support to Residential Care Officers, promoting safe practice and ensuring essential care is delivered effectively throughout the night.
• When management is unavailable, taking responsibility as the person in charge, coordinating the immediate response to emergencies, safeguarding concerns and operational issues, ensuring resident safety and escalating matters through the appropriate on-call arrangements.

The ideal candidate would have the following qualifications, skills and attributes:

• Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a Registered Nurse (Adult or Mental Health), appropriate to the needs of the service.
• Experience delivering nursing care and undertaking clinical assessments, ideally within a nursing home or adult social care environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of older people's care, including dementia, frailty and complex long-term health conditions.
• Sound knowledge of medication management, clinical risk assessment, safeguarding adults and relevant CQC requirements.
• The ability to recognise changes in residents' health, exercise sound clinical judgement and take appropriate action.
• Confidence in providing clinical guidance and direction to care staff and coordinating care during periods when management is unavailable.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise competing demands and remain calm under pressure.
• A compassionate, professional and positive approach, with a genuine commitment to promoting residents' dignity, independence and wellbeing.

West Berkshire Council offer excellent employment benefits such as:

• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities
• Generous Local Government pension scheme
• Family friendly policies
• A range of local discounts
• Wellbeing Programme including Employee Assistance Programme and employee benefits
• You will also be entitled to a generous annual leave entitlement starting at 29 days per annum (plus public holidays) Rising by an additional 5 days after 5 years’ service. (Pro rata for part-time hours)

Please note that the closing date is given as a guide. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

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For an informal discussion about the role, please contact: Liam Lewis 01635 33967

Equal Opportunities

The Council supports Equal Opportunity of employment and positively encourages applications from people who fall within any of the nine protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.

How to apply

Please now complete a short online application form. You will then be able to upload your CV.

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