Registered Nurse

Verulam Health Care Ltd; St Albans; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free/Onsite Parking

Paid Breaks

Career development opportunities

Company pension

Free Uniform and DBS

Job summary

Verulam Health Care Ltd in St Albans is seeking an experienced registered nurse (RGN/RMN) to lead and support our care team at Verulam House. You will deliver high-quality nursing care to residents and participate in assessing needs and care planning.

We offer flexible hours, ongoing training, opportunities for career development, and a supportive team. You will work under CQC standards, with a focus on compassionate, person-centred care for residents with long-term needs.

Qualifications

• Valid NMC Registration as an RGN/RMN.
• Minimum 1 year's experience as a Registered Nurse.
• Good knowledge of CQC standards and legislation.
• Strong leadership, highly clinically skilled and well organised.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Experience with PCS and electronic care planning.
• Inspire, motivate and lead by example.
• Flexible rota availability to meet home needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality nursing care to residents.
• Lead and support the care team and coordinate care plans.
• Assess residents, plan, implement and evaluate care with input from residents and carers.
• Liaise with GPs, case managers and health professionals.
• Maintain clinical records and communicate decisions to the team.

Skills

RGN NMC Registration

Leadership

Communication

Care planning

Dementia care awareness

Clinical assessment

Flexibility in rota

Tools

PCS

Electronic care planning

Job description

Registered Nurse

Hours: multiple options, it can be discussed at interview as we are flexible around this.

Location: St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3 4DH

If you’re an experienced, compassionate nurse (RGN/RMN) looking to improve the lives of people with long-term care needs, we can offer you a rewarding career at Verulam House.

We’re seeking a qualified registered nurse to lead and support our care team at the care home.

You’ll receive comprehensive training to help you adjust to nursing in a care home setting and ongoing development to help you progress your career.

Who We’re Looking For

• Valid RGN NMC Registration.
• Previous experience within a similar setting is desirable but not essential.
• A minimum of 1 year's experience as a Registered Nurse.
• A clear understanding of CQC standards/ legislation.
• Strong leader, highly clinically skilled, well organised, able to take the lead.
• Great written and verbal skills for communication and understanding.
• Previous experience of PCS and electronic care planning.
• Able to inspire, motivate and lead by example.
• Flexible approach to the rota to meet the needs of the home

Benefits

• Free/Onsite Parking
• Paid Breaks
• Brilliant opportunities for career development.
• Company pension.
• Free Uniform and DBS.

How You’ll Make a Difference

By providing the highest quality of nursing care, you’ll be helping to improve and sustain our residents’ quality of life. Leading and supporting a care team, you’ll:

• Provide high quality nursing care to our residents.
• Responsible for clinical assessment of residents, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented, and evaluated, involving residents and users.
• To promote the rights, interests, needs and choices of carers and people with dementia in the planning, delivery and evaluation of care and services.
• To liaise with GPs, case managers, primary health care practitioners, statutory and voluntary agencies, supporting our residents.
• Effectively communicate information regarding clinical decisions, policy and care pathways to residents/carers and the multi-professional team including situations where difficulties in comprehension occur.
• To maintain clinical records and provide verbal and written feedback appropriately and as required, to carers, and persons with dementia as appropriate, and referring agencies and professional colleagues.
• Utilise and ensure others utilise information and IT systems to secure accurate and timely resident, workforce and resource data.
• To integrate into practice current knowledge of dementia and caring, informed by research and other forms of evidence.

About Us

Welford Healthcare was founded in 2017 with the goal of building a boutique collection of quality care homes across the UK. Our strategy is to grow our business by acquiring mature care homes with quality foundations and strong potential for improvement and by investing in our people and our properties to ensure our homes are always inviting and homely. Whilst we are a growing business, we never lose sight of our primary and enduring purpose which is to provide good quality care for vulnerable adults. As we acquire new homes, we leverage our resources and expertise to ensure that the homes we run always have our residents’ wellbeing at their hearts.

Our senior leadership team has extensive experience of operating, opening and acquiring quality care homes with proven track records in regulatory compliance and running commercially successful businesses where meeting the needs and ensuring the happiness of our residents and our teams are the cornerstones of our approach.

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