Registered Nurse Freelance

Morden College

Job Title: Registered Nurse

Location: London

Salary: £20.61 p/h

Job Type: Permanent – Full Time

About Morden College:

Our most valuable resource are the people within Morden College; they provide the supportive, caring and inclusive environment both for colleagues and for our Residents. Our culture encourages and supports creativity, celebrates our differences and the similarities that draw us together as a community and promote the highest standards of individual behaviour and accountability in everything we do.

Morden College is a charity that is dedicated to enabling a life-lived independence for the older people they provide homes for, through life, as they grow older. Morden College has enriched the lives of its residents as well as their families, over the last 300 years. The Charity’s core purpose is to provide older people who are in need with a home for life within it’s beautiful grounds, with amazing facilities and surrounded by its caring people, who work tirelessly to provide the highest quality of care.

Our Charity’s Community Services are provided in the Almshouse accommodation at Blackheath and at Ralph Perring Court in Beckenham, through the vibrant communal space in the John Morden Centre and the case management approach that proactively identifies, assesses, and supports the most vulnerable in our community. Our residential care home, Cullum Welch Court (“CWC”), provides personal nursing and dementia care 24/7. With 32 beds, it is small enough to maintain a personalised service to its residents, yet large enough to provide the facilities required to meet their range of needs.

Morden College is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

About the Role:

• To comply with standards of professional practice and conduct and maintain valid registration as a Registered Nurse with the NMC to practice.
• To provide residents with a “good life” by promoting dignity, independence, choice, and fulfilment within a policy of managed risk taking.
• To provide residents with comfort, security, and a sense of belonging, making a difference to their daily lives.
• To provide professional nursing leadership to the care team during any span of duty, ensuring a high standard of nursing care is provided to residents, delegating care activities to other care staff as appropriate and in accordance with NMC Code.
• To be responsible for the induction and supervision of newly recruited Registered Nurses and students on placement across all households.
• To promote resident wellbeing, security, and safety by assessing, monitoring and evaluating individual care needs in partnership with the resident.
• To be responsible for ensuring the principles of the Mental Capacity Act (2005) are used to protect people who lack capacity and maximise their ability to make decisions.
• Participate in an ongoing programme of tailored and meaningful activities focused on maximising wellbeing, independence, and social engagement.
• Create and effectively maintain clear, accurate care records including care plans and assessment documents.
• Be responsible for the safe and appropriate management, administration and recording of medication.
• To keep up to date with relevant research and developments in evidence-based practice.
• Be responsible for the Health and Safety of staff and residents on shift, and ensure incidents, accidents, near misses and events reports and root cause analysis are completed and submitted at the end of each shift.

The Candidate:

• Registered with NMC as RN1: Adult nurse, level 1 or RNA: Adult nurse, level 1
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or health related subject or equivalent experience
• Postgraduate Certificate in Palliative Care
• Minimum 24 months post registration experience in a hospital or community setting
• Teaching and mentoring qualification or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 12 months experience as medication management/competency assessor able to supervise, train and assess the competency of others in medication management and administration.
• Able to evidence completion of continuing professional development, with a focus on evidence-based practice.
• IT literacy specifically Microsoft packages and EMIS.

Benefits:

• We will provide you with 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time roles), additional holidays for long service, an enhanced pension, free onsite parking, a 24/7 employee assistance programme, life assurance and flexible working.

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Mental Health Nurse, Qualified Nurse, Registered Nurse, Advanced practice registered nurses, RMN, RN, LPN, APRN, Elderly Care, Senior Nurse, Senior Staff Nurse will be considered for this role.