Advanced Health Care Practitioner - Gateshead

Are you looking to develop your career and work in a highly commended neurological nursing home? If, so why not consider coming to join us as an Advanced Health Care Practitioner?

We are looking to introduce this exiting new role to enhance the care and support we provide. Abbeymoor is a CQC rated “Good” Neurological Care Nursing home, based in Gateshead. It supports a number of individuals with neurological and degenerative conditions such as Huntington’s and Acquired Brain Injuries.

You will be working alongside our amazing nursing team to undertake a wide range of clinical and health care tasks.

This includes but is not limited to:

• Assist with the nursing care of the resident under the direction of a trained nurse. This will include all basic care examples includes skin care; application of prescribed creams and eye drops; prompt residents to take prescribed medication; dressings.
• Observe and reports any change in the condition of the resident and communicates this verbally to the nurse in charge.
• Adheres to record keeping standards. Administer bolus feed and peg feeding. Re-positions the resident, adhering to current manual handling procedures and assists those residents unable to self-care with personal hygiene and dressing.
• Responsible for catheter care and maintenance and stoma care. Carries out urine collections, PH balance, bladder washout; change leg bag as required. This includes being compliant with all National Care Standards, Regulations, Codes of practice & legislative requirements to help provide a safe service to residents.
• To ensure the safe administration of medicine and management of this & that these are appropriately ordered, received, stored, recorded and administered in accordance with company policy and other required guidelines. I.e. NICE
• Ensure all care plans are up to date and accurate in reflecting residents care, health and wishes.

We will be providing a full training programme and you will receive clinical supervision, coaching and mentoring from the nursing team. There is also an opportunity to further enhance your career through the Nurse Associate Apprenticeship scheme leading to you being an NMC registered professional.

Qualifications
SVQ 3/NVQ Level 3 minimum