Registered Nurse

Welford Healthcare; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider based in York and North Yorkshire is seeking an experienced, compassionate nurse (RGN/RMN) to deliver high-quality nursing care to residents. You will lead and support a care team, ensuring that individual needs are met, clinical assessments are conducted, and effective communication is maintained with residents and health professionals. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of CQC standards and demonstrate the ability to lead by example while fostering a caring environment.

Benefits

Free/Onsite Parking

Paid Breaks

Career development opportunities

Company pension

Free Uniform and DBS

Qualifications

• Must hold a valid RGN NMC Registration.
• At least one year of nursing experience is required.
• Understanding of CQC standards and legislation is necessary.
• Experience in a similar care setting is desirable but not essential.
• Strong leadership, organizational skills, and written communication skills are a must.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality nursing care to residents.
• Conduct clinical assessments and plan appropriate care.
• Liaise with GPs and other health professionals.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and communicate effectively.
• Incorporate current knowledge of dementia care into practice.

Skills

Team leadership

Clinical assessment

Communication

Knowledge of dementia care

Education

RGN NMC Registration

1+ years experience as a Registered Nurse

Tools

Electronic care planning systems

Job description

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 Birchlands. 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:

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Benefits

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