Are you an experienced registered nurse? Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Do you feel ready to lead in best practice and to be the clinical role model for the nursing team?

If so, there has never been a better time to take the next step within Brunelcare.

About the role

You will work closely with the home manager and nurses to promote good practice and provide guidance to new and existing colleagues to support their development. You will also:

• Be a positive role model and promote our person-centred philosophy of care to staff, relatives and visiting professionals in order to maintain a consistently high standard of care and support within the home.

• Oversee the training and administration of drugs by other nursing staff and care staff.

• Ensure that all staff provide care as per care plans that are fully reflective of the person’s current health status.

• Participate in direct care of residents, essential in order to coach and mentor staff in high standards of nursing care across the home.

• Supervise the induction of new staff, be able to give guidance on mentoring for other staff. To encourage staff members to further develop as individuals.

• Carry out clinical supervision, mentoring and coaching of senior staff members.

• Initiate new ways of working that fully embraces best practice and encourages excellence to flourish throughout the home and the organisation.

• Be the person in charge of the home when the Home Manager is absent and carry out on-call duties as agreed with the Home Manager.

• Works in partnership with NHS/Intermediate care Somerset to provide care, support, assessment and rehabilitation and will be joining the MDT to continue this exceptional service.

About You

You’ll be an experienced registered nurse and have an active NMC registration. Alongside this you will also:

• Be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills and a complete understanding of the necessity for confidentiality and duty of candour requirements.

• Have a commitment to the development of staff to enable them to be empowered to take responsibility for their actions and deliver excellent customer service.

• Have a passion for enabling older people to live their lives as well as they can regardless of the complexities of their long term condition or life limiting illness.

Job benefits

• Competitive rates of pay (plus £2 per hour enhancement for weekends, and double pay during bank holidays)

• Support provided with revalidation and we will pay for your NMC registration renewal

• Equivalent to 33 days paid annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays), increasing to the equivalent of 36 after 5 years’ service (pro-rata)

• Free enhanced DBS Check & uniform provided

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• Company Sick Pay

• Care First Employee Assistance Programme (provides a range of free confidential services)

• £200 refer a friend bonus

• Plus all the below!

Established in 1941, Brunelcare is an award-winning Bristol based charity providing high-quality housing, care, and support for older people in the South West.

Today, across Bristol, South Gloucestershire, and Somerset, Brunelcare works to support people to remain as independent as possible, for as long as possible.

The extensive range of our services means that people can stay with us however their needs may change.

We are also widely recognised for our expertise and excellence in caring for people living with dementia, and for supporting their families.

As a charity, we do not pay dividends to shareholders, and any profit we make is reinvested back into the services we provide.