Clinical Lead

Location: Fairview Court Nursing Home, 42A Hill Street, Bristol BS15 4ES

Hours: Full Time– Mixture of both Clinical and Supernumerary Shifts

To be responsible for the provision of nursing care for all residents and for maintaining a homely, supportive and stimulating environment to improve or sustain, as far as possible, the residents’ quality of life. To lead, support and coach a staff team, upholding and actively promoting the values and philosophies so each day is the best it can be for residents and staff. As Clinical Lead your role in leading the shift will champion the five guiding principles of first class care: SAFE, EFFECTIVE, CARING, RESPONSIVE, WELL-LED.

Main Duties:

• Clinical care and shift management
• Ensuring all residents have full nursing assessments and an holistic, individual person-centred care plan which takes into account the individual's preferences and preserves their dignity at all times.
• Being named nurse to allocated residents.
• Upholding and monitoring standards of resident personal care through staff guidance, supervision and review of communications, ensuring care plans are regularly evaluated.
• Communicating with residents’ relatives, GP and other agencies and multi-disciplinary teams, keeping them informed of any changes in the residents’ condition.
• Role modelling; acting at all times in a professional manner, leading by example, passing on knowledge to the team as appropriate.
• Responsible for the safe custody of drugs and their administration in accordance with the NMC Statement on the Administration of Medicines and Company policy.
• Ensuring your practice is compliant with infection control and prevention measures.
• Ensuring all resident areas are hygienic, safe and comfortable at all times.
• Organising the admission, discharge or transfer of residents and ensuring attention is paid to the safe custody of residents’ property.
• Maintain accurate and timely records and reviews in accordance with best clinical practice, Company policies and NMC's standards on Record Keeping.
• Flag up any apparent omissions or errors in record keeping through careful observation and professional transparency.
• Participating in the development of policies relevant to the home and highlighting the need for any nursing policies to be updated.

Supervising and Mentorship:

• Supervising and motivating the care staff and participating in their general training, development and their training for professional qualification.
• Promoting a positive culture where individuals are supported to achieve their best.
• Positive role modelling.
• Ensuring trained staff work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice.
• Liaising with and supporting day and night colleagues.
• Participating in meetings with the Nurse Manager and consulting with them and updating them as appropriate.
• Be responsible to the Home Manager in ensuring nursing and care staff deliver up to date best clinical practice and maintain comprehensive clinical records.
• Supervise and assist the staff with the safe custody of medicines and their administration in accordance with the NMC's statement on the administration of medicines.
• Assisting in the development and maintenance of harmonious working relationships within the care team.
• Participating in the implementation of individual performance review; assisting nursing staff in the achievement of development goals and advising Nurse Manager on training needs.

Training and Development:

• Keeping your own training up to date; undertaking training and assessment including all update training as required to enable you to safely and legally carry out your duties.
• Fulfilling revalidation requirements and the NMC’s Professional Conduct requirements.
• Keeping professionally updated and aware of developments in nursing practice, theory and research.

Compliance:

• Taking personal responsibility in becoming fully aware of Health & Safety at Work Policies in particular Fire Procedures, Control of Infection, COSHH and Moving and Handling Policies.
• Aware of all regulations regarding the health and safety of residents and staff and reporting and recording all accidents, incidents and complaints.
• Assisting in ensuring the security of all residents and the premises through the observance of security procedures and the challenging of any strangers in the Home.
• Other reasonable duties as may be required in the proper course of your job.

Ongoing training and development, the opportunity to build a career. Free on-site parking.

About Us:

Welford Healthcare was founded in 2017 with the goal of building a boutique collection of quality care homes across the UK. Our strategy is to grow our business by acquiring mature care homes with quality foundations and strong potential for improvement and by investing in our people and our properties to ensure our homes are always inviting and homely. Whilst we are a growing business, we never lose sight of our primary and enduring purpose which is to provide good quality care for vulnerable adults. As we acquire new homes, we leverage our resources and expertise to ensure that the homes we run always have our residents’ wellbeing at their hearts. Our senior leadership team has extensive experience of operating, opening and acquiring quality care homes with proven track records in regulatory compliance and running commercially successful businesses where meeting the needs and ensuring the happiness of our residents and our teams are the cornerstones of our approach.