Exemplar Health Care Services Limited are looking to add a Nurse Unit Manager to their team of professionals. If you possess the requisite skills and meet the requirements, your application is highly welcome.
Established in 1999, we’ve developed a range of health and care services for adults living with complex needs arising from dementia, learning disabilities, neuro-disabilities including brain injuries, mental health conditions and physical disabilities.
Through our values of fun, integrity, success, responsiveness and teamwork, we’re proud of the outcomes we enable people to achieve.
At Exemplar Health Care, our care is different. Our 50+ care homes provide welcoming and supportive Nurse-led environments for those whose needs are often ‘too complex’ for mainstream care providers and who may have experienced one or more failed placements.
The people we support would often be in a hospital or higher acuity setting if not placed with us. Our care enables them to stay in the community and reduces hospital and secures facility admission.
Position: Nurse Unit Manager
Salary: £20.96 per hour
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Sutton-in-Ashfield, UK
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to use your nursing leadership skills to make a real difference every day. Join us as our new Unit Manager at Eastlands care home in Sutton-in-Ashfield. Eastlands is a care service for adults living with complex and high acuity needs. In this role, you will work at a senior level, under the leadership of the Clinical Nurse Manager to manage a team of nursing and care colleagues, drive quality and maintain high standards of care on your unit.
Main Duties
- Ensuring that the Care Team and Clinical Team on your designated unit provide the highest standards of nursing care for our service users, which is person-centred and based on the latest evidence and best practice
- Demonstrating that your practice is underpinned by clinical theory and based on a mix of therapeutic tools and intervention strategies
- Managing situations where service users display, or are at risk of displaying, behaviours of concern, and supporting colleagues in these situations
- Supporting service users to identify their needs and goals, and setting measurable outcomes and standards of care for each individual
- Implementing and monitoring clinical documentation and ensuring that the team maintains high standards of record keeping and care planning
- Developing and sustaining positive relationships with families, friends and visitors of service users
- Building and maintaining positive relationships with professionals visiting the home, including regular communication with care coordinators, commissioners and other referral agents
- Being the Practice Supervisor/Assessor (Mentor) for clinical colleagues
- Ensuring that correct accident and incident reporting procedures are followed in line with internal processes and policies
- Attending clinical governance meetings held by the Clinical Nurse manager and ensuring that detailed minutes and action plans are taken, stored and used to steer clinical development in the home
- Implementing safe and effective processes for the ordering, handling, storing, administrating, recording and disposing of medication
- Completing supervisions and Performance Development Reviews for Your team
- Providing advice and education to colleagues, learners and service users on your unit, and recognising when they need additional support or training
- Ensuring your team are over 90% compliant with all MAST and job essential training
- Providing a visible presence on your unit so that colleagues, service users and family members can ask questions, make suggestions and raise concerns – and responding appropriately and in a timely manner
- Ensuring daily huddles take place at the start of day and night shifts on your unit
- Using a supportive and devolved management approach to ensure that Registered Nurses are supported to an appropriate level
- Working with line managers to ensure that systems and processes are in place to support the professional registration, revalidation, appraisal, development, supervision and performance management of the Clinical team
- Leading on the interviewing and development of colleagues to ensure the right skills and experience mix to meet service user needs.
- Implementing a positive workplace culture which fosters positive engagement and attitudes in colleagues, through activities such as regular listening sessions and team meetings contributing to the development, monitoring and review of Clinical policies and procedures
- Participating in the on-call system which supports the Nurse in charge duty in the event of emergency
- Ensuring that the home maintains safe staffing levels, preparing rotas, reporting and managing any absences and arranging cover
- Participating in, promoting and embracing Exemplar HealthCare’s quality assurance processes.
Qualifications
- Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.
- You’ll be a natural role model with the ability to manage your unit’s team of Registered Nurses, Nurse Associates and Health Care Assistants.
- You’ll also have:
- A thorough understanding of best practice in nursing care
- An excellent range of clinical and communication skills that you’re able to demonstrate
- An enthusiastic approach to encouraging and motivating people
- The ability to work confidently on your own initiative
- A good standard of digital skills.
- To apply for this role, you must have a first-level nursing registration with a valid Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) PIN.
Benefits
- Excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
- Retail and lifestyle reward discounts
- Free DBS check
- Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
- Paid NMC membership
- Paid access to the RCNi Learning platform
- 24/7 counselling and support
- Blue Light Card eligibility.
IMPORTANT: Able to offer Visa Sponsorship to UK based applicants
Application Process
Interested and qualified candidates should kindly CLICK HERE to learn more and commence their application.
Application Deadline
May 2, 2024