Nurse

Portsmouth City Council; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Portsmouth City Council is seeking a Registered Nurse for Harry Sotnick House, a busy 46-bed nursing home. The role focuses on long-term care for older people with complex health needs, dementia care, and bed-based re-ablement.

You will lead a team to deliver high-quality nursing care, while ensuring care plans meet residents' choices and regulatory standards. Applicants must be NMC-registered, with a degree, and demonstrate strong record-keeping and IT skills, flexibility, and ongoing

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level and registered with NMC.
• Experience in health or care setting.
• Strong record-keeping and IT skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage, direct and evaluate a high standard of nursing care.
• Decide on appropriateness of care plans and assess quality of care by junior staff.
• Ensure care delivery aligns with standards for audits.
• Incorporate new clinical practice developments into policies and procedures.

Skills

NMC registered

Education

NMC registered nurse

Job description

Nurse - Harry Sotnick House

Salary: Band 9, £40,443 - 44,252 p.a, plus 33% shift allowance for nights

34.5 - 42 hours per week - Nights

(full time post plus contractual overtime per week)

The Service

Harry Sotnick House is a busy 46 bed nursing home, spread over 2 units and israted as Good by the Care Quality Commission.

At Harry Sotnick, we deliver a broad range of healthcare services to older people with mental and physical health needs, offering long term dementia care and bed based re-ablement for hospital leavers.

Your new role

The role of the registered nurse working in a nursing home is a highly skilled one, requiringan in-depth knowledge of long term conditions associated with ageing, managing complexmultiple morbidities and frailty.

You willmanage, direct and evaluate a high standard of nursing care. You will be responsible for deciding on appropriateness of care plans and assessing the quality of care being delivered by junior staff to ensure that health care is fully met. You will need to decide on the appropriateness of clinical and non-clinical issues that need reporting for monitoring purposes. It will also be your responsibility to decide whether care planning and delivery of care enables residents to exercise choice and control over the lives.

You must ensure that new developments in clinical practice are incorporated into the policies/ procedures. It will be part of your role to decide on quality of care planning and quality of delivery of care to meet required standards for audits.

Who is the person summary:

Educated to degree level or equivalent you will be registered with NMC and have proven experience working in a relevant health or care setting. Flexible in your approach you will have the ability to promote respect and appreciation whilst providing care and compassion to service users. Reliable and organised you will have good record keeping and IT skills. Evidence of personal and professional development, you must keep up to date with new developments in clinical practice and implement changes to the provision of nursing care wherever necessary.

About Portsmouth City Council

Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.

We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about the values and behaviours .

Additional Information

We are not able to offer sponsorship for this position.

Our recruitment process

We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found at Equality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board safer recruitment procedures.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Please read the relevant DBS privacy notice before submitting any information.

You will need to explain any gaps in your career history within the last 5 years - this is essential for all safeguarding roles.