Registered nurse (nights)

Portsmouth City Council; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a dedicated Nurse for Harry Sotnick House, a busy nursing home. This role involves managing high-quality nursing care for residents, ensuring compliance with care standards, and implementing new clinical practices. Ideal candidates will have a degree in nursing, be registered with NMC, and possess strong communication and IT skills. Join a team committed to making a real difference in the lives of older adults while enjoying a supportive work environment and various benefits.

Qualifications

• Registered with NMC and proven experience in health or care settings.
• Ability to manage and evaluate nursing care in a nursing home.

Responsibilities

• Manage, direct, and evaluate nursing care in a 46 bedded nursing home.
• Ensure quality of care and implement new clinical practices.

Skills

Nursing Care

Record Keeping

IT Skills

Clinical Practice Knowledge

Communication Skills

Education

Degree in Nursing

Job description

Nurse - Harry Sotnick House

Salary: Band 9, £37,937 - £41,510 p.a, pro rata, 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 is rated 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.

As a service we take pride in our work by valuing others, focusing on what's important so that we make a real and positive difference.

Your New Role

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

You will manage, direct and evaluate a high standard of nursing care in a 46 bedded nursing home. 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.

What you'll need to succeed

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.

Please view the full job profile for further details of what you need to demonstrate in order to fulfil the role.

About Portsmouth City Council

What we can offer you:

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.

Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our careers portal homepage: Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council

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.

DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board safer recruitment procedures.

Application process:
Please read the full job profile for further details on the post to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role stated in the who is the person. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. This is important or you are likely not to be shortlisted.

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

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

Closing date: 21 May 2025

Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact [e-mail]. or call the recruitment team on 023 92 616800