Registered Nurse (Nights)

St Monica Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Part time

Job summary

St Monica Trust in Bristol is seeking an experienced adult nurse to join our care team on a part-time basis. You will deliver high‑quality clinical nursing care, assess residents, monitor needs, administer medications, and contribute to safe care planning.

The role requires strong communication, leadership in admissions and complex care, and collaboration with GPs, pharmacists and families. You will help drive quality, audit care plans, and ensure compliance with regulations.

Qualifications

• Qualified and NMC Registered Nurse (adult level 1).
• Knowledge of CQC Regulations, Essential Standards, Infection Control, GDPR, and Mental Capacity Act.
• Experience with older people, dementia, and in nursing home/hospital settings.
• Experience conducting clinical audits and risk assessments.
• Experience writing and reviewing care plans.
• Knowledge of health and safety, moving and handling, and infection control.
• Experience keeping accurate records.
• In-depth understanding of ageing process.

Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical nursing care, assess and monitor residents’ needs and administer medication.
• Lead on admissions/discharges, and handle complex clinical care and emergencies.
• Maintain records, care plans, audits, incidents and health and safety documentation.
• Collaborate with GPs, pharmacists, residents and their relatives/friends.
• Provide leadership and cover more senior posts when required.
• Build positive relationships with stakeholders and provide thoughtful leadership.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Empathy

Staff training

Team collaboration

Education

NMC Registered Nurse (Adult)

Job description

Hours: 21 hours - 2 nights per week

Hourly rate: £23.47 per hour, plus weekend and night enhancements

Key Results

Summary responsibilities

• Deliver clinical nursing care through assessing and monitoring residents’ needs and undertaking clinical procedures and administering medication.
• Role model and advocate a holistic approach to care, working with the wider care home team (catering, housekeeping, volunteers, pastoral).
• Lead on admissions/discharges, complex clinical care needs, medical emergencies, and end of life care.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with all stakeholders, including, GPs, pharmacists, residents and their relatives/friends and colleagues.
• Maintain accurate records relating to clinical care e.g., care plans, audits, incidents, changes to health and well-being, finances, health and safety and manual handling.
• Leadership role requiring covering more senior posts when required.

Skills and experience

Communication

• Interprets and explains information to others.
• Provides and receives some complex, sensitive or contentious information.
• Persuasive, motivational, empathetic, reassuring skills.
• Confident negotiator.
• Shares knowledge and trains others on the job.
• Communicates openly and often with immediate and related teams. Objective review of complex matters.

Thinking Style

• Analyses complex facts or situations.
• Plans and organises a range of complex and interlinked activities and tasks (project planning).
• Uses sophisticated technical and problem-solving skills to enhance service area/discipline.
• Regular report writing, data analysis and recommending actions.
• Contribute to the development of policies and procedures in own discipline.
• Aware of longer term impact of decisions.

Leadership

• Strong focus on buy-in and engagement.
• Contributes to wider organisational goals/strategy.
• Delivers coaching and guidance.
• Data management, processing information and analysis skills.
• People management skills.
• Budget and financial planning awareness

Working with others

• Seeks, responds to and acts upon client feedback regularly.
• Builds relationships internally and externally.
• Strong personal network inside and outside the organisation.
• Establishes a collaborative culture for team and those who use their services.

Other Skills and Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified and NMC Registered Nurse (adult level 1)
• Working knowledge and understanding of the CQC Regulations and the Essential Standards of Quality and Safety, Infection Control, Medication, GDPR, NMCs standards and guidance and the Mental Capacity Act.
• Experience of working with older people, those with a disability, and/or dementia
• Experience of working in a nursing home/hospital/sheltered housing/social care setting
• Experience of conducting clinical audits and risk assessments
• Experience of writing and reviewing care plans
• Knowledge of good practice in relation to health and safety, first aid, moving and handling and infection control
• Experience of keeping accurate records
• In depth understanding of the ageing process

Desirable

• Completion of (or willing to complete) Supporting Students in Practice (formerly the Facilitated Learning and Assessment in Practice course)
• Working (or willing to work) towards further professional qualifications
• People management skills
• Experience of quality assurance systems
• Experience of reviewing and developing internal practices and policies

Additional information

• Duties must be carried out in compliance with St Monica Trust’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.
• This role profile contains the principal accountabilities relating to this post and does not describe in detail all the duties required to carry them out.
• This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and this means that any criminal conviction, including spent convictions, must be made known at the time of the application.

Salary Ranges:

£0.00 - £0.00

Time Type:

Part time