Nursing Home Nurses >
Description.
Provide nursing care within nursing homes, supporting residents with chronic illnesses, complex age-related conditions, dementia, frailty, palliative needs, and ongoing clinical monitoring. Deliver safe medication management, clinical assessments, wound care, and person-centred care planning to maintain residents’ dignity, comfort, and wellbeing.
Key Requirements.
Experience.
Minimum 1–2 years’ post-registration experience in nursing homes, elderly care, community nursing, or adult medical wards.
Skilled in medication administration, wound management, catheter care, chronic disease support, and recognising early signs of deterioration.
Experience working closely with carers, senior care staff, GPs, community teams, therapists, and safeguarding leads.
Familiar with CQC standards, safeguarding frameworks, infection control procedures, and clinical governance within care-home settings.
Qualifications.
Additional training in dementia care, frailty, palliative care, or long-term condition management desirable.
CPD in elderly care, safeguarding, end-of-life care, and clinical assessment.
Compliance and Vetting.
Enhanced DBS on the Update Service.
Full identity and right-to-work verification.
Two recent clinical references.
Up-to-date NHS Statutory and Mandatory Training (accepted across NHS and private care providers).
Immunisation compliance for residential and nursing-home clinical environments.
Full NMC registration and fitness-to-practise check.
Verification of qualifications and employment history.