Registered General Nurse

Woodhayes: Our lovely home in Exeter, Woodhayes is looking for a Registered General Nurse.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist residents who need help with dressing, undressing, bathing, and toileting
• To assess and identify training needs of care staff and report to The Care Home Manager, and assist with training programs, and assist with induction of staff
• To report any personnel problems to The Care Home Manager
• To keep good nursing records and documentation for procedures and administration as required
• To encourage and supervise the provision of daily activities for residents’ according to their assessment and plan of care
• To supervise and assist care staff and ancillary staff to ensure good hygiene practice and presentation of the home, including for example in: making and changing of beds; tidy rooms, keeping everything clean; inspection of and laundering and mending residents' clothing; setting tables and trays; serving meals; feeding residents who need help; prepare meals and wash up; tidy and clean the communal rooms
• To maintain good liaison with all who work at the home and who come into contact with the home and to generally promote the home’s interests with all
• Attend staff meetings as arranged by the Care Home Manager
• Ensure minimum waste and maintain good stock control and instruct staff in use of machinery and equipment relevant to their area of work
• To continually monitor and ensure good presentation of the home at all times, reporting any problems to the Care Home Manager immediately they are identified
• To be familiar with procedures for selling rooms, dealing with enquiries and recording this information and actively assist The Care Home Manager to achieve high occupancy
• Help residents with mobility problems and other physical disabilities, including incontinence; help in the use aids, care of aids and personal equipment
• Care for residents temporarily sick and needing, for example; dressings, bed nursing
• Help care for residents who are dying
• Help in the promotion of mental and physical activity of residents through talking to them, arranging trips out, sharing with them in activities: such as reading, writing, hobbies and recreation
• Answer emergency bells, the door, and the telephone; greet visitors
• Read and write reports; take part in care team and residents' meetings and in training activities as directed
• Such other duties as may reasonably be required
• Help create Team Spirit
• The RGN (Social Care) may be instructed by the care manager to be the responsible person-in-charge on any work shift.