Senior Registered Nurse

Senior Registered NurseDepartment: Health & Social Care
£18.73-20.39 per hour plus 30% weekend enhancement.
Grade/Job family: F
Effective date: February 2023PurposeManages a team of Registered nurses and Healthcare assistants ensuring the effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of high standards of holistic care for service users.
Responsible for ensuring effective performance management of all clinical staff in line with Brainkind policies and procedures for recruitment, induction, development, supervision, appraisal and discipline.
Key Relationships

• The post holder holds the line management responsibility for Registered Nurses
• Responsible for working alongside and/or supporting volunteers within their team
• Ensuring that all service users (or when they are not able family/carers) are given the opportunity to participate fully in the care planning and review process
• Maintaining good communication and liaison with all other departments, internal and external to Brainkind

Qualifications required

• NMC Registered Nurse with post-registration experience in the clinical field
• Completion of NMC recognised accredited mentor training or willing to undertake
• Evidence of continued professional development

Experience, Skills and Ability

• Proven ability to build, lead and influence an effective team in a clinical setting
• Knowledge of current legislation within the independent care sector
• Knowledge of best clinical practice for client group
• Demonstrable experience of practising in a self-directed and highly motivated way
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including an ability to communicate difficult messages to service users and their families
• Negotiation and conflict management skills
• Able to effectively manage change
• An ability to provide teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting

Complexity and Accountability

• Delegating clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessing competence
• Responsible for ensuring adequate and appropriate daily staff cover by planning an effective duty rota and participating in the provision of out-of-hours clinical support
• Managing and assessing risk within the area of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and service users
• This post holds no budgetary responsibility but will be expected to contribute in helping to manage costs where appropriate and monitor the control and ordering of supplies within available resources.
• Participating in the annual audit programme, setting quality standards and monitoring the quality of care through clinical audit
• Contributing to the continuing development of nursing care and services offered to the service users and smooth running of the Service through the acceptance of agreed additional responsibilities
• Promotes, demonstrates and maintains high standards of care delivery according to NICE guidelines and the Brainkind Quality Governance Policy. Recognises and works within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing support, leadership, recognition and supervision to other team members as appropriate
• Demonstrating own activities to new or less experienced employees and carrying out day-to-day supervision
• Provides an educational role to service users, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning. Shares knowledge and expertise with other staff through formal and informal teaching. Acts as a mentor to students, assessing competence against set standards as requested and if appropriately qualified
• Produces accurate, timely and complete records of service user consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures, whether in a handwritten or electronic format
• Understands and applies legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable adults, being aware of statutory vulnerable adult health procedure and local guidance. Assesses the impact of policy implementation on care delivery
• Maintains own professional development, seeking opportunities for research and/or development of nursing practice. Actively promotes the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice. Ensures the identification of training needs, and supports staff in their development
• To maintain an understanding of and to act in accordance with all Brainkind policies and procedures
• In order to facilitate the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally taking on reasonable additional tasks