Verve Homecare is a well-established Complex Care Homecare service. 

Since its incorporation, Verve Homecare has been dedicated to providing solutions for complex care needs at home with passion and compassion.

From its conception, the ethos of Verve Homecare is to provide the highest levels of care in an engaging, professional, and approachable way.  It is important for our clients to feel listened to and understood. This is why the team at Verve Homecare provides bespoke and tailor-made packages to our clients.

Verve Homecare is committed to improving the quality of life of its clients and providing the best outcomes with a collaborative and empowering approach to homecare in the UK.

About the candidate

We are looking for an enthusiastic, reliable, organised, professional and confident person with excellent ethical work to join our dynamic team as a Clinical Lead Nurse. A flexible approach and strong work ethic are crucial in this role. The ideal candidate would be competitive, hard-working and good at multitasking.

About the Role

• Undertake Assessment, Risk Assessments and other assessments appropriate to client’s need and own knowledge and skills as an assessor.
• Assist with hospital discharge arrangements and the development of new packages of care.
• In conjunction with the client, family and informal carers exercise own professional judgement to refer to other than health professionals when necessary, GP, local or specialist hospitals etc.
• Respond to the clients, staff and families in nursing care situations providing advice, expertise and guidance by telephone and when appropriate in person.
• Ensure the accuracy of all clinical records and data completed within the allocated care packages.
• Conduct and record field visits and assist the Registered manager with one-to-one performance reviews (spot checks) with each member of staff in Complex Care Children Packages and ensuring care plans are always up to date.
• Identify training needs for staff and ensure training reflects developments in area of complex care delivery and clinical management.
• To comply with local safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Follow an On- Call out of hours rota.
• Attending quarterly review meetings.
• Making sure all MAR charts, charts and documents are transcribed upon clients discharge and are up to date. Ensuring all information received upon discharge matches up existing care plans.
• Children in need review meetings.  
• Future development leading to head of field supervisors.
• Fully flexible hours, you will be required to manage your own hours.
• Ensure to communicate your diary to the Registered Manager.
• To take part in investigations where clinical knowledge is needed,
• Need to be able to deal with complaints/concerns effectively and promptly following our procedures.
• Auditing and quality assurance, to take part with paperwork auditing such as observation charts, MAR charts and log sheets etc and take appropriate action for identified gaps/errors,
• This list is not extensive to the role.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Minimum of 2 years post registration experience,
• Exceptionally well organised individual with proven management experience,
• Clinical Paediatric/Complex Care Experience desirable,
• PICU Experience preferred
• Team leadership experience,
• An ability to communicate effectively at all levels,
• Good report writing skills,
• Comfortable in analysing service outcome information and problem-solving,
• Excellent interpersonal and people management skills;
• High energy level, self-starter and ability to handle conflicting and competing priorities,

All applicants must be computer literate and hold a full UK driving licence.