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

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
  

Benefits

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.