Enrolled Nurse (Day Clinic)

Your care keeps residents at a private medical ward in East London safe, clean and comfortable through the day. If you learn fast and don't mind being shown things twice, you'll settle in within a few weeks.

You'll report in East London. Relocation is not covered for this one. Start is planned for the beginning of next month.

• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Make beds, change linen and keep the rooms clean and uncluttered
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Turn bed-bound patients on schedule and check pressure areas for early sores
• Spot confusion, falls risk or changes in mood and tell the nurse in charge
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises

• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely
• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate

• Code B or Code 8 driver's licence for home visits
• Experience in a frail care or hospice setting
• Dementia care or palliative care short course

• Overtime paid at time and a half
• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres
• Uniform supplied

• Name the type of patients you've cared for, such as stroke patients or dementia residents, in your first CV line.
• Recruiters phone references for care jobs, so warn your references and check their numbers still work.