Registered Nurse (Adults Residential) – Person-Centred, Values-Led Care
Are you a compassionate, accountable Registered Nurse who wants to make a meaningful difference in adults’ lives within a residential college setting? We’re looking for a nurse to join our Adults Residential Service, supporting people to live safe, fulfilling lives with dignity, choice and independence.
You’ll work within a supportive multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality clinical care and ensuring practice is safe, evidence-based and aligned to the NMC Code, CQC Fundamental Standards and the principles of the Care Act 2014 (wellbeing, prevention, personalisation and safeguarding).
This role is required for 52 weeks per year, working 40 hours a week within our Residential setting.
About the role
As a Registered Nurse, you will provide skilled nursing care, clinical leadership and professional oversight to young people with complex health needs within a busy specialist college environment. You will play a central role in ensuring individuals receive safe, holistic, person-centred support that promotes wellbeing, dignity, independence and positive outcomes.
The role requires an experienced nurse who is confident working with young people who present with complex physical health needs, learning disabilities, neurodevelopmental conditions and associated clinical interventions. You will contribute to comprehensive clinical assessments, care planning, medicines management, delegated healthcare oversight and ongoing health monitoring, working collaboratively with families, advocates, education colleagues and external healthcare professionals.
A key aspect of the role is supporting the safe delegation of healthcare procedures within a social care and education setting. You will be responsible for assessing, supporting and signing off support worker competencies in delegated clinical tasks such as PEG feeding, enteral medication administration, stoma care, catheter care, bowel care procedures and medication management. The successful candidate must therefore possess strong clinical assessment skills, a sound understanding of delegation frameworks, and the ability to robustly evaluate competence in practice in line with professional standards, organisational policy and regulatory expectations.
The post holder will also deliver practical toolbox training, coaching and clinical education within a fast-paced college environment, ensuring staff teams maintain safe, competent and confident practice. This includes delivering bedside teaching, competency observations, reflective discussions and clinical guidance to support workforce development and safe care delivery.
Key responsibilities
- Deliver safe, effective and person-centred nursing care to young people with complex health and support needs within a specialist college setting.
- Undertake detailed clinical assessments, implement and review care plans, delegated healthcare plans and risk assessments, ensuring care remains responsive to changing needs.
- Lead on the safe management of complex clinical procedures including PEG feeding, enteral medication administration, stoma care, catheter care and other delegated healthcare interventions.
- Assess, supervise and sign off competencies for support workers undertaking delegated clinical procedures, ensuring practice aligns with legislation, organisational policy, professional accountability and best practice guidance.
- Deliver toolbox talks, clinical teaching sessions and practical training within a busy operational environment, adapting approaches to support staff learning and competence development.
- Provide clinical leadership, guidance and oversight to support teams, promoting safe practice, professional accountability and effective escalation of concerns.
- Lead on safe medicines management in accordance with legislation, organisational policy, NICE guidance and the NMC Code.
- Maintain accurate, timely and professional clinical documentation in line with NMC standards, safeguarding requirements and information governance principles.
- Promote a safe environment through robust safeguarding practice, infection prevention and control, incident reporting and health and safety compliance.
- Work collaboratively with GPs, specialist nurses, community teams, therapists, dietitians and other healthcare professionals to ensure continuity of care and coordinated clinical oversight.
- Support quality assurance and governance processes through audits, competency reviews, clinical observations, reflective learning and continuous improvement initiatives.
About you
You are an experienced Registered Nurse with demonstrable experience supporting young people with complex health needs within health, social care or specialist education environments. You are clinically confident, highly organised and able to balance compassionate care with strong professional judgement and accountability.
You will have substantial experience in delegated healthcare practices and competency-based assessment processes within social care settings, with the ability to coach and develop non-registered staff safely and effectively. You are confident delivering practical clinical training and toolbox teaching within busy operational environments and can adapt your communication style to meet the needs of diverse teams.
You will possess strong observational, assessment and escalation skills and have a thorough understanding of safeguarding, clinical governance, medicines management and professional accountability within complex care services. Above all, you will be committed to promoting high-quality, person-centred care that enables young people to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Essential requirements
- Registered Nurse (RGN/RMN/RNLD) with current NMC registration and commitment to practising in line with the NMC Code (including revalidation).
- Experience in an adult care setting (residential, community, primary care, or clinical environment).
- Strong clinical assessment, communication and organisational skills, with confident clinical decision-making and escalation.
- Practice leadership skills: able to provide visible clinical leadership on shift, support safe delegation, and model best practice.
- Ability to complete and document practice observations (e.g., observing care delivery, medicines practice, IPC, record keeping) and provide constructive feedback to improve standards.
- Ability to complete competency assessments and/or support competency development for care colleagues (e.g., medicines, clinical tasks, documentation, IPC), in line with organisational frameworks.
- Confidence in medicines management and clinical record keeping.
- A clear commitment to safeguarding, dignity, respect and person-centred outcomes.
- Flexibility to work shifts, including evenings/weekends as required by the service.
Desirable
- Experience supporting adults with learning disabilities, autism, mental health needs, complex physical health needs and/or older adults.
- Knowledge of CQC standards, clinical governance and quality frameworks.
- Experience mentoring, supervising or supporting learning and development in others.
Plus:
Recognised as a Top Employer United Kingdom 2026 by the Top Employers Institute.
Named among the Top 100 Global Inspiring Workplaces by Inspiring Workplaces.
- Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer.
Salutem Care and Education is dedicated to protecting and promoting the well-being of children, young adults, and vulnerable individuals. As part of our safer recruitment process, the successful candidate will be required to complete thorough pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS and, where applicable, overseas criminal record checks.
