Night Nurse Manager - Hurlingham

£27.40 per hour, 43 hours per week

Night Nurse Manager – Permanent

£27.40 per hour, 43 hours per week

KYN Hurlingham, 28 Daisy Lane, London, SW6 3DD

KYN is a brand-new care home company focused on offering an elevated approach to care:
Individualised journeys built around the needs and interests of our residents in beautiful surroundings with life-enriching practices.

KYN HURLINGHAM is our second home which opened in 2024. It’s a 32‑bedroom home offering each resident an elegant and comfortable bedroom, communal areas for dining and reclining.

We are passionate about our people; we seek out those who have a true vocation for care or hospitality.

As a Night Nurse Manager you will be responsible for:

• To take a lead role in overseeing the clinical management of residents’ conditions, enabling quality of life through effective care, service and activity
• To be the go-to person, providing leadership, clinical advice, and support to the staff within the home, the residents, their friends, relatives, and any visitors to the home
• To be a role model for all staff, demonstrating and leading clinical best practice, behaving in a highly professional manner at all times whilst ensuring alignment to The Code and KYN values
• To maintain up-to-date clinical knowledge and skills and where needed convey any concerns to the Home Manager
• To ensure the Home Manager is kept fully informed regarding the clinical management of the home including the residents’ conditions and to provide clinical advice to the Home Manager as necessary
liTo ensure the needs of each resident are assessed effectively at pre-admission and continually throughout their time in the home, ensuring that they receive the highest standard of care and service appropriate to their individual needs
• To ensure each resident has an up-to-date and agreed care plan, involving the residents and relatives where possible, which details the interventions required to meet their individual needs, evaluating and reviewing the assessments and care plans in line with the policies and procedures
• To regularly audit care plans to ensure compliance with KYN’s policies and procedures
• To lead the team to use additional charts to monitor residents’ care needs effectively when necessary, ensuring that all documentation is completed contemporaneously and accurately. This will include but is not limited to, flood/fluid charts, turns charts, monitoring MUST and palliative care charts
• To take a lead role in managing the home’s clinical responsibilities including but not limited to infection control, medication management, tissue viability and wound care management, nutritional and dietary requirements, moving and handling management
• To complete the homes clinical audits and action plans in the required timescale, taking a proactive approach to managing clinical risk and demonstrating the ability to respond effectively to residents’ clinical needs
• To build and deliver action plans around the outcomes of the audits to ensure an environment of continuous service improvement is promoted and maintained
• To be able to conduct a ‘show round’ to prospective new residents or families
• To provide appropriate clinical supervision, mentoring, effective communication, and leadership to the care team including any visiting agency staff
• In conjunction with the Home Manager, Deputy Manager, and Clinical Lead support registered nurses with their revalidation
• To give guidance and training to the care/nursing team and provide clinical support and direction as required
• To support and guide the Household Care Leads in their duties
• To maximise staff involvement with the residents’ activities both in and out of the home and encourage leisure pursuits accordingly
• To assist in the recruitment of team members with support from the Home Manager and the HR team where necessary, in accordance with KYN’s policies and procedures
• To arrange orientation and supervise the completion of the induction programme for all new team members, including the completion of the Care Certificate
• To ensure appropriate staffing levels and skill mix on each shift meet the requirements of the residents, current…