Registered General Nurse - RGN
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I am a highly experienced nurse with 41 years of caring for individuals with a wide range of needs. I am now seeking a role in domiciliary care where I can focus on providing hands-on, compassionate support to people in their own homes. I have extensive experience supporting individuals with all activities of daily living, including washing, dressing, personal care, mobility, and medication administration.
I am passionate about helping people maintain their dignity, independence, and comfort within their own environment. I am kind, patient, and respectful, and I build trusting relationships with clients and their families. I understand the importance of delivering person-centred care and adapting support to meet everyone's needs.
With my strong nursing background, I bring a high level of awareness around health conditions, safeguarding, and safe medication management. I am committed to providing reliable, compassionate care that enhances quality of life.
Band 5 Staff Nurse - Northern Care Alliance (NCA) - Bury
Current role working part time 24 hrs (12.5 hrs over 2 days) in intermediate care unit in Bury. Working with Bury council and NCA using health and social care workings in 36 bedded unit. Working with GPs OOHs ANPs using clinical assessment and hospital avoidance ethos being able to plan individualised support care plans working with clients to reorientate to own home for discharge.
Working with pharmacy team in administering safe medications with patients and assessing for self-medication. Working with collaborative team working with social workers reablement teams and therapy and care staff ensuring high standard of care and focus for rehab/or discharge to long term care setting. Completing RCAs and presenting to leadership team for improvement in care.
Active in Dementia task group looking at implementing care standards and methods of assessment introducing 4T and implementing person centred care.
(2022-01 - 2024-01)
Retired from NHS and worked fulltime as carer for both parents who have advancing Alzheimer's
Community Nurse Band 6 - Northern Care Alliance (NCA) - Bury (Killelea house)
(2020-04 - 2022-09)
Utilised skills in an effective and highly motivated team within an established service supporting patients for appropriate services and to an excellent patient experience. Used skills in leading a proactive passionate multidisciplinary team to enhance first class effective patient care and provide leadership to and work as part of the Intermediate Care Team. The team worked specifically with older people, implementing and delegating to team members agreed nursing care and/or rehabilitation programme.
Promoted and sustained independence/wellbeing for the individual or carer in relevant community, residential or health care environment. Functioned as a specialist nurse within community health services contributing to nursing service development, implementation of policy and policy changes, and standards of practice. Contributed towards the development of Intermediate Care, through devising and implementing service change and to audit and evaluate both nursing and multidisciplinary practice.
Patient Flow Co-Ordinator Band 6 - East Lancashire NHS Trust
(2019-01 - 2020-01)
Supported team leader, deputising in his/her absence. Worked as manager with flow team being responsible for managing the safe, personal and effective flow through the elective and emergency pathways within the hospital setting. Worked with the Site Management Team to create a caseload approach to patient flow facilitation.
The role included clinical leadership and supervision of the Patient Team, liaison with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and operational managers, assessment of inter/intra hospital transfers, collection input and interpretation of organisational capacity data. Used skills experience and expertise by supporting the older frail patient in ensuring appropriately assessed.
Reason for leaving: to return to clinical care of patients and to more patient focused in speciality of intermediate care and rehabilitation.
Band 6 - Discharge to Assess - Senior Community Nurse
(2018-01 - 2019-01)
Led and managed with support from band 7 intermittently a community multidisciplinary rehabilitation team taking overall responsibility for the assessment, management and delivery of community rehabilitation to patients in a variety of community settings. Promoted effective teamwork within the wider Primary Health care team delegating activities appropriately to the benefit of the patient and service delivery. Monitored the quality-of-care provision and identified and promoted areas for service development.
Acted as an autonomous practitioner taking ongoing responsibility for the assembly care planning and goal setting, evaluation and achievement of patient led rehabilitation goals delegating activities. Undertook professional and joint multidisciplinary interagency assessments using advanced clinical reasoning in a variety of settings to inform referrer of assessment findings goals and outcomes in a timely response. Provided operational leadership in leading others to model and support improved practice integrity and partnerships.
Responsible as professional lead for the education and supervision of junior staff and provided clinical supervision and competency attainment. As a tea
Band 6 then promoted to Band 7 - Team Lead - Central Manchester Foundation Trust - Gorton Parks Intermediate care
(2016-01 - 2018-01)
Led and managed a community multidisciplinary rehabilitation team taking overall responsibility for the assessment, management and delivery of community rehabilitation to patients in a variety of community settings. Promoted effective teamwork within the wider Primary Health care team delegating activities appropriately to the benefit of the patient and service delivery. Monitored the quality-of-care provision and identified and promoted areas for service development.
Acted as a clinical practitioner working with consultants MDT and team. Undertook assessments using advanced clinical reasoning in a variety of settings to inform referrer of assessment findings goals and outcomes in a timely response. Role included operational leadership education and human resources management.
Band 6 Intermediate Care Nurse Assessor - Pennine Acute NHS Trust (PAHT) - North Manchester General Hospital Crumpsall
(2012-01 - 2016-01)
Worked as a nurse assessor for community services identifying patients for inpatient intermediate care both residential and nursing beds home pathway on virtual wards. Functioned as an autonomous practitioner who risk assessed patients in identifying patient centred and enabled goals to enhance patients to suitable placements within the intermediate service for residential and nurse led beds. Worked as part of a team based at a residential base with 15 patients suitable for rehab in assessing patient care for risk assessment for falls nutrition and pressure care management with referrals to community services.
Also based within a domiciliary team as a nurse assessor in providing a concise assessment for active case management duties in long term conditions management. Gained knowledge and skills to demonstrate specialist expertise and professional knowledge acquired through post registration academic study, clinical, leadership.
O levels - Parklands High School (1983-01 - 1983-01)
A/O levels - Blackburn College (1985-01 - 1985-01)
RGN Training - Central Manchester Hospital (1988-01 - 1988-01)
