Director of Nursing Job Description
This is a challenging role that requires the successful candidate to lead our team and ensure we are offering the best standard of care for our Residents.
Main Responsibilities:
1. Ensuring residents receive an excellent standard of care, in line with regulations and striving to exceed standards.
2. Assessing social and health care needs of new clients and conducting ongoing reviews of all clients.
3. Liaising with patient referrers to maintain efficient occupancy levels.
4. Maintaining client care needs, providing health supervision, and enlisting services as necessary.
5. Enhancing quality of life by maintaining attention to areas such as privacy, dignity, autonomy, choice, rights, and fulfillment.
6. Developing social and leisure activities to enhance clients' lives.
7. Maintaining professional knowledge and competence through training and example.
8. Inducting new staff members into the aims and objectives of the home.
9. Complying with staff rotas and recruiting as necessary.
10. Operating terms of staff contracts and disciplinary procedures.
11. Maintaining awareness of routines within the home and reviewing them as appropriate.
12. Ensuring rooms, common areas, and operational areas are properly cleaned and maintained.
13. Maintaining equipment in good working order.
14. Meeting dietary and nutritional needs.
15. Maintaining nursing/care/drug records as required.
16. Controlling ordering, storage, and administration of drugs.
17. Practicing maximum integrity in dealings with clients' personal affairs.
18. Recruiting and screening qualified and unqualified care and ancillary staff.