About this role
Job summary
We are seeking a compassionate and motivated nurse to join our team at Sandybrook Nursing Home. This role offers an opportunity to work within a Nursing home environment delivering safe, person-centred care for adults.
You'll support the delivery of quality care we're known for. Working closely with the Registered Manager and taking on leadership duties in their absence, you can expect to help with everything from ensuring care standards to motivating your team.
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunitiesworking with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where youre exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
Main duties of the job
This role operates across a range of clinical areas within the acute and community services. The post holder will develop and deliver a specialist service for a group of patients with a defined set of conditions involving technical interventions and the provision of advice within a multi-disciplinary framework. This will involve developing and maintaining a high clinical profile and presence. Working collaboratively with colleagues across other department to ensure the continuity in patient care, acting as a role model for colleagues, patients and relatives, the post holder will be a highly experienced practitioner within the multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the development of a clinical service through involvement in standard setting and the development and dissemination of expertise within both the clinical and education settings.
About us
We want you to be your best, and we know that to achieve this we need to support the whole you. Thats why our offer is much more than pay and pension.A career with the Jersey Public Service comes with a range of benefits, as well as offering the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the lives of Islanders. When you join us, youre stepping into a role where your work makes a real difference - and where youll be recognised, supported, and empowered along the way.We offer various benefits and initiatives designed to help you grow, thrive, and balance your personal and professional life, which reflects our commitment to being an extraordinary place to build your career.Explore the employees benefits we offer in the Jersey Public Service:
Job description Job responsibilities
The post holder will demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the guidelines of the NMC Code and apply these to maintain trust and credibility with patients, carers and colleagues.
The post holder will make a significant contribution to a specialty service through developing effective clinical leadership skills, and will keep fully up to date in developments within own professional discipline, sharing clinical knowledge/experience in order to enhance nursing care.
The post holder will support individual patients/carers through all aspects of treatment programmes, providing a ready means of access and advice and may be required to act in the capacity as a an independent supplementary prescriber.
The post holder will promote a culture of evidence based practice by contribution to developing and maintaining protocols, documentation, systems, standards, policies and guidelines in line with the Clinical Governance Framework.
The post holder will work collaboratively as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, taking the lead role when appropriate and participate in building team commitment, coherence and spirit.
The post holder will contribute to the overall aims of the service by developing the nursing staff and encouraging self-sufficiency and flexibility of working practices to provide the most cost-effective and efficient working practices.
The post holder will contribute to the Business plan for the specialty service and will be responsible for budget management, ensuring cost effective use of resources.
The post holder will actively participate in the Education, Training and Development Programme and will assist junior staff to identify and meet their learning objectives.
The post holder will disseminate clinical knowledge and expertise in specialty throughout organisation using the principles of teaching and learning in the education of patients, carers and colleagues.
The post holder will participate constructively in the Performance Review and Appraisal process, taking responsibility for lifelong learning.
The post holder will demonstrate research experience and the application of research into practice by creating and maintaining a culture which uses clinical audit and research to improve patient outcomes and promote best practice.
The post holder will disseminate research findings locally and will demonstrate critical analysis skills applied to best practice.
The post holder will make a significant contribution to the planning and implement of ongoing audit of infection control within the clinical area/department/speciality service and ensure that all principles of infection prevention and control are embedded within the ward/departmental area, will demonstrate effective infection prevention and challenge poor practice.
The post holder takes responsibility for the safeguarding and welfare of all children, adults and/or families within their care and contact. He/she shall be aware of and comply with all safeguarding policies and procedures
The post holder will maintain a professional portfolio which demonstrates the continuing acquisition of skills, knowledge, attitudes, understanding and achievement.
NB: The above does not purport to be an exhaustive list of duties but is intended to indicate the range and type of duties required. The duties of the post may alter to reflect changing practices within the service. Statutory responsibilities Active engagement, participation and compliance with any other statutory responsibilities applicable to the role, as amended from time to time.
Person Specification
Knowledge Essential
Professional, clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree level
Qualifications Essential
Qualifications 1st Level Registered Nurse
Desirable
Teaching/Mentorship /Assessment of Learning in Practice or equivalent module / award / qualification Relevant post qualifying speciality award
Experience Essential
2 years post qualifying experience in specialty area
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Health and Community Services
Address Government Of Jersey
Union Street
St. Helier
Jersey
JE2 3DN
Employer's website https://www.gov.je (Opens in a new tab)