Regional Care Nurse Lead-Brighton and Hove Area

Regional Care Nurse Lead

Full-Time

37.5hrs, Monday to Friday

Home-Based – Brighton and Hove Area

Pay

£44,850 - £48,750 per annum

HomeCareDirect are currently seeking a Regional Care Nurse Lead to join their team on a full-time basis. You will be home and community based and will work autonomously, managing your own caseload of clients living with a range of complex health needs in the Brighton and Hove area.

Your role is to ensure that the people you support are given the best opportunities to remain healthy and out of hospital, whilst assisting them to ensure their lives are enriched and they are achieving their goals.

This is a support management position to help people to live an independent life in line with their care and support plan. Your role is to ensure that the people who use the HomeCareDirect service are supported to achieve their goals and aspirations to care standards whilst making a success out of directly their own support at home.

You will have a client caseload to provide ongoing visits to create care and support plans, undertake annual support reviews, risk assessments, personal assistant inductions, supervisions, team and MDT meetings and other visits as necessary to keep the person safe.

Key Tasks

Support the person (and their family where appropriate) to live independently and direct their own support whilst working closely with the HomeCareDirect Independent Living Team to solve problems with a pro-active 'can-do' attitude and approach

Support the person in their support at home, to meet their assessed needs

Be pro-active to improve the quality of life of the person living at home

Visit prospective new service users at home or in hospital to provide information and advice on how HomeCareDirect can help people to live independently at home

Create the care and support plan to meet the assessed needs in partnership with the person whilst assessing the training needs of their personal assistant(s) to the professional standards to which you are qualified

Undertake risk assessments for both the person and their personal assistant(s) and report any non-compliance to head office

Complete documentation to the timescales required to meet professional standards

Work in partnership with the HomeCareDirect head office to help ensure that Health & Safety standards are met

Undertake interviews and supervision of personal assistant(s) in partnership with the client

Undertake clinical observations of the personal assistant(s) in line with their role

Visit the client as often as indicated in the support plan with a minimum of twice yearly supervisions for personal assistants

Undertake annual support reviews to CQC standards

Requirements

Essential Qualifications/Experience/Personal Qualities

You will be a qualified nurse with a minimum Band 5 registration

Registered with the NMC with a valid PIN

Have clinical, complex care experience

Have a commitment to undertake continuing professional development (CPD)

You will need to have extensive experience of working in the community as a lone worker and in a senior role

Have good IT skills, fully conversant with Microsoft Office software, with internet access to enable use of our bespoke online care planning system

Have some care-planning experience

Able to provide personal assistant training in line with your competencies

Have a full, UK driving licence

Have a compassionate and caring outlook with the ability to relate well to people, with families and personal assistants, in a supporting role

Be a good listener to the views, opinions and needs of the individual (or family where appropriate)

Be flexible and non-judgmental in accepting individual situations and environments

Good attention to detail, with a high personal standard for service quality whilst ensuring you follow the policies and procedures of HomeCareDirect

Able to talk to people at a professional level

Be flexible and willing to make necessary changes to meet the changing needs of the company

Must live in the Brighton and Hove region or be willing to relocate

Benefits

A salary of

£44,850, increasing to £48,750 per annum after a successful 6-month probationary period

Mileage is paid at 48p per mile for the first 10,000 miles, 25p per mile thereafter

Food allowance for overnight stays are paid at £8.99 for breakfast and £20.00 for evening meals. Overnight stays where required, are paid for by HomeCareDirect via our corporate account

Contribution towards professional registration of £80.00 per annum

Holiday entitlement of 20 days plus 8 bank holidays which increases to 25 days plus 8 bank holidays after 1 year of service

Auto-enrolment into our pension scheme

Sick pay after probation

Birthday day off

Blue Light Card with access to high street discounts

Employee Assistance Programme which provides a 24/7 confidential helpline

Access to our wellbeing app which provides nutrition, fitness, podcasts and meditations along with self-help guides

Excellent staff engagement activities including competitions, team-building and employee awards

HomeCareDirect are industry-leading specialists in personalisation. We help a wide variety of people to take control over their care at home using personal budgets, personal health budgets, direct payments or their own funding.

Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective and compassionate care.