Regional Adult Nurse - Taunton, Plymouth & Bristol

Permanent - Full time - 35 hours per week - Monday to Friday (9am - 5pm with some flexibility)

Based from Taunton Branch but covering Taunton, Plymouth and Bristol

We want to make life better for more people. If you are as passionate about quality as we are and you want a role where your skills will make a real difference, this is a great opportunity. You can help us to grow and develop in an exciting business that puts people front and centre of everything we do.

Prestige Nursing & Care, part of the Sodexo Group, has provided home care for over 75 years and we have 35 local offices in England and Scotland. Our aim is to lead the care industry by providing high quality, personalised and specialist services to our clients.

We are looking for a dynamic and independent Nursing professional with solid Adult Nursing experience and a flexible, enthusiastic, and can-do attitude to join our West Regional Team, supporting our current complex needs clients based in Taunton, Plymouth and Bristol areas.

ROLE PURPOSE

The role of a Regional Nurse is to provide clinical expertise and professional leadership to specific branches within a designated region, to enable the planning and delivery of safe and high-quality complex care provision to adults in their own homes and community settings.

To be accountable for and lead on the clinical components of care delivery

To risk assess individual client referrals and to continually provide clinical input, expertise and advice relating to care-planning and delivery across the pathway and evaluate outcomes

Attend meetings and/or liaise with MDT, commissioners, case managers and clients etc to build and manage clinical caseload

To act as a clinical role model and leader for all members of staff

To facilitate and deliver an ongoing programme of clinical knowledge/skills-training and competency assessments to non-registered members to enable them to competently deliver care with minimal supervision

Maintain standards, proactively manage clinical risk, complaints and play a pro-active role in quality improvement

Promote compliance and adherence to internal policies and standards

Keep abreast of national standards and requirements surrounding adult services, and relevant specialism and work with colleagues across all regions to agree practice changes and implications

Assist branches in assessing client complexity and ensure adequate registered nurse input is available to support carers in delivering safe and high-quality age-appropriate care

The role is regionally based i.e it covers a specified number of branches across a designated region and, therefore, will include regional travel. On occasions National UK travel may be required.

KEY ATTRIBUTES/KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

RN/RNLD/RMN with current NMC registration

Recognised teaching qualification/experience

Significant experience of care management, including relevant clinical experience, in the community or hospital setting with evidence of professional development

Management of risk and health and safety

Experience of safeguarding adults and children procedures and ability to implement

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

Effective communication skills – verbal and written

Ability to work on own initiative as well a part of a team – self-motivated

Effective people management skills

Ability to negotiate, influence, escalate and seek advice

Excellent IT and presentation skills

Awareness of budgetary management and control

Knowledge and application of HR procedures

Demonstrate knowledge of the theory and application of clinical governance

WHAT WE OFFER IN RETURN:

A competitive salary

28 days annual leave (includes Bank Holidays) increasing every year by 1 to the maximum of 33 days over 5 years' service

An additional day off for your Birthday

Cycle to Work scheme for our Head Office, Regional and Branch staff

Long Service Awards

Work Place Pension

Employee assistance programme (EAP) - confident

Supportive working environment with ongoing learning and development opportunities

A friendly, agile and flexible working culture

Please Note:

* Prestige Nursing & Care reserve the right to close this role early

** By submitting your details, you acknowledge that Prestige Nursing is collecting, processing, and using your personal data for managing your application. For more information, please visit our Candidate Privacy Notice on our website

*** Disclosure and Barring Service Check - This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.