Full-Time
Make a Real Difference Every Day
Empowering U Healthcare is a specialist provider of complex, person-centred care, supporting individuals to live fulfilling and independent lives in their own homes. We are a nurse-led organisation committed to compassion, dignity, and high-quality care.
Available Role: Paediatric Nurse
Hours: Full Time - 9am till 5pm
Pay: £40,000
About The Role
Job Purpose
As a Branch Nurse, you will play a key role in assessing, planning, implementing, and reviewing high-quality care packages for adults living in the community. You will ensure that care is safe, effective, person-centred, and tailored to each individual's needs. Working closely with clients, families, care staff, and multidisciplinary professionals, you will provide clinical leadership, delegation, training, and support to maintain the highest standards of care delivery.
This role involves supporting adults with a wide range of needs, including complex health conditions, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health needs, neurological conditions, palliative care requirements, and age-related health conditions.
Key Responsibilities
1. Care Assessment and Planning
- Conduct comprehensive clinical assessments to identify the health, social, emotional, and environmental needs of clients.
- Develop, implement, review, and update person-centred care plans tailored to individual needs, preferences, goals, and outcomes.
- Complete risk assessments and develop strategies to minimise identified risks while promoting independence and quality of life.
- Ensure all care plans reflect current best practice, safeguarding principles, and regulatory requirements.
- Assess adults with complex care needs, including those requiring specialist interventions, long-term condition management, and end-of-life care.
2. Care Implementation and Monitoring
- Oversee the delivery of care packages, ensuring care is provided in accordance with agreed care plans and clinical standards.
- Regularly monitor, evaluate, and review care outcomes, making recommendations and adjustments where required.
- Work collaboratively with service users, families, healthcare professionals, local authorities, and other stakeholders to ensure coordinated and holistic care.
- Support hospital discharges and transitions of care where appropriate.
- Ensure care delivery promotes dignity, choice, independence, and positive outcomes for adults receiving support.
3. Clinical Delegation and Oversight
- Provide clinical leadership and oversight to care staff delivering delegated healthcare tasks.
- Assess competency and safely delegate nursing interventions in line with NMC guidance and organisational policies.
- Provide ongoing supervision, guidance, and support to care teams undertaking clinical responsibilities.
- Ensure safe administration and management of medications and other clinical interventions.
- Promote best practice in infection prevention and control, safeguarding, moving and handling, and clinical governance.
4. Care Staff Training and Development
- Deliver, facilitate, and evaluate training on clinical skills, nursing procedures, and care-related topics.
- Support competency assessments and sign-off processes for delegated healthcare tasks.
- Provide coaching, mentoring, and professional development opportunities to care staff.
- Identify learning needs and support continuous improvement through individual and team development plans.
- Promote a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous learning within the branch.
5. Documentation, Quality Assurance and Compliance
- Maintain accurate, comprehensive, and timely records of assessments, care planning activities, reviews, and clinical interventions.
- Ensure all documentation complies with CQC standards, NMC requirements, GDPR, and company policies.
- Participate in audits, quality assurance processes, investigations, and service improvement initiatives.
- Monitor incidents, accidents, and concerns, ensuring appropriate actions and learning outcomes are implemented.
- Support the branch in maintaining compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements.
Key Skills and Competencies
- Excellent clinical assessment, care planning, and risk management skills.
- Strong knowledge of adult health conditions and complex care requirements.
- Ability to develop and maintain detailed, person-centred care plans and clinical documentation.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and staff development skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build positive relationships with clients, families, professionals, and colleagues.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in a community setting.
- Knowledge of safeguarding adults, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), infection prevention and control, and clinical governance.
- Strong understanding of CQC regulations, NMC standards, and best practice guidance.
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
- Registered Nurse (RSCN) with a valid NMC PIN.
- Demonstrable experience in clinical assessment, care planning, and risk assessment.
- Experience supervising, supporting, and developing care staff.
- Experience working with adults in community, homecare, hospital, residential, or nursing care settings.
- Excellent understanding of safeguarding, clinical governance, and regulatory compliance.
Desirable
- Previous experience in a leadership, supervisory, mentoring, or clinical governance role.
- Experience supporting adults with:
- Learning disabilities
- Autism spectrum conditions
- Mental health needs
- Physical disabilities
- Neurological conditions
- Complex care requirements
- Palliative and end-of-life care needs
- Dementia and age-related conditions
- Experience in community nursing, complex care, ICU, ED, case management, or specialist clinical services.
- Experience completing competency assessments and delivering staff training.
This role offers an opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of adults receiving care and support while helping to develop and maintain a highly skilled and compassionate workforce.
Required Criteria
- Minimum 6 months UK care experience
- Compassionate, patient, and reliable
- Strong spoken and written English
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Basic IT skills for documentation
- Enhanced DBS required
- Do you have a valid NMC Pin
Desired Criteria
- Experience with children or complex needs preferred but not essential
- Full UK driving licence & access to a vehicle preferred
Skills Needed
About The Company
Empowering U is dedicated to promoting dignity, choice, and independence through exceptional staffing and personalised support.
Our committed local teams work with compassion and expertise to empower individuals to re-enable, rebuild confidence, and lead fulfilling lives. Our person-centred approach focuses on creating a supportive environment where individuals feel valued, understood, and encouraged, helping to build confidence, improve communication, and enhance overall wellbeing. Through our innovative methods and commitment to excellence, we ensure our services enrich lives and help people enjoy a more independent and meaningful future.
If you are passionate about making a difference to individuals and families in a friendly, encouraging environment and want to develop your career, Empowering U provides clear opportunities for progression, supported by in-house and specialist external training to give you the skills and confidence you need. Start your journey with us and apply today to build a rewarding and impactful career at Empowering U.
Start your journey with us and apply today to build a rewarding and impactful career at Empowering U.
Company Culture
At Empowering U, we believe our people are at the heart of everything we do. Our teams work together to provide personalised, meaningful care that supports individuals and families to live with confidence, dignity, and independence. Every person we support has their own story, needs, and goals. While each journey is unique, our commitment to exceptional, compassionate care never changes.
We champion a culture of support, collaboration, and genuine connection. Whether it’s team days for our case management team, weekly designated hours for open conversations, or fun event days at the office, we make sure our people feel valued, heard, and part of something bigger.
We’re with you at every step. That means ongoing guidance, open communication, and always being just a phone call away. No one in our team or in our care ever has to feel alone.
At Empowering U, we celebrate growth, encourage curiosity, and create a workplace where every person can thrive. We’re proud to build teams who lift each other up, share ideas, and bring their passion for care into everything they do.
Company Benefits
At Empowering U, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re committed to helping you grow, thrive and feel genuinely valued, which is why we offer a wide range of meaningful benefits and development opportunities. When you join our Complex Care team, you’ll receive free flu jabs, funded NVQs to support your professional development, a free DBS check, financial advice services and flexible working hours, all designed to support your wellbeing and help you build a truly rewarding career. Alongside this we also offer a range of other benefits:
Vacation, Paid time off, Performance bonuses, Employee development programs, Employee Assistance Scheme, Wellbeing Scheme, Blue Light Card, Social Opportunities, Culture of recognition, On the job learning, Progression opportunities, Access to Health & Wellbeing app, Staff celebration events
Salary
£40,000.00 per year
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Pay: £42,000.00 per year
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Derby DE24 8GX
Expected start date: 07/09/2026
