Grace Healthcare is currently recruiting a Clinical Nurse Manager for our new facility Dunshaughlin Care Home in Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a progressive environment and further your career and training in the healthcare field. Grace Healthcare is renowned for their continuous development of staff and exceptionally high standard of care.
The role of the Clinical Nurse Manager shall be to support the Person in Charge in the clinical and professional leadership of the care team and to deliver direct resident care.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Ensure that the provision of a high standard of care to the resident and families in Dunshaughlin Care Home is consistent with the mission, vision, values, and strategic plan of Grace Healthcare.
2. Ensure recognition of the resident as an individual; ensuring residents’ rights, needs, and comfort are prioritized during the provision of care.
3. Develop relationships with residents, facilitating resident autonomy, informed choice, and evidence-based decision-making.
4. Promote and maintain resident safety and provide quality care through respecting the privacy, dignity, and rights of the resident.
5. Maximize the residents’ capacity to exercise personal autonomy and choice.
6. Collaborate, consult, and communicate with staff regarding appropriate nursing assessments, diagnosis, planning, interventions, and evaluation of resident care.
7. Safeguard residents from physical or sexual abuse, psychological abuse, financial or material abuse, neglect, or acts of omission, or discriminatory abuse, through deliberate intent, negligence, or ignorance by others within Dunshaughlin Care Home. Where a concern arises for a resident’s safety, all reasonable and proportionate interim measures are taken to protect them pending the outcome of any assessment or investigation.
8. Ensure the preparation of an individual care plan, based on the resident’s assessment, is completed no later than 48 hours after that resident’s admission.
9. Ensure the formal review of resident’s health at intervals not exceeding 4 months, including review and update of the resident’s individual care plans as deemed necessary. This review shall be completed in conjunction with the resident concerned and, where appropriate, with the resident’s family members/representative.
10. Support and work towards a restraint-free environment. Manage and respond to behavior that is challenging in a manner that is not restrictive.
11. Be responsible for meeting the aims of dementia/cognitive impairment care within the residential home.
12. Coordinate and implement the resident’s palliative and end-of-life care needs as much as possible. Following the death of a resident, ensure that appropriate arrangements are in accordance with the resident’s wishes as far as they are known and practical.
13. Act as an advocate for the resident to provide support, reassurance, and ensure their views and wishes are taken into consideration.
Qualifications Required:
Essential:
* A registered General Nurse or Psychiatric Nurse on the Register of Nurses held by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland or be entitled to be so registered.
* Evidence of continuous professional development.
Desirable:
* Post Graduate Diploma in Gerontology
* Management qualifications
* Gerontology experience
* Experience in Psycho Geriatric Nursing Care/Psychiatry/Adult Disabled.
* In-depth knowledge of the ageing process.
* IT Skills
Experience Required:
Essential:
* Minimum three years post-graduate experience.
* 1 year experience at CNM Level (Desirable but not essential)
* In-depth knowledge of the ageing process.
Desirable:
* Experience in psycho geriatric nursing care/psychiatry/adult disabled.
For more information, please apply with a copy of your CV.
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