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Details
of Staff and Staff Training and Experience
Robert
McConnell is the General Manager and is a Registered Mental
Nurse which is an essential qualification for fit person registration
under the Nursing Home Act and also with the National Care Standards
Commissions fit person criteria to manage a care centre, he
also holds a Community Psychiatric Nurse Certificate. Nursing
over the last 42 years since October, 1965 has left him with
an inheritance of experiential knowledge ranging from the times
of "Sans Everything" to the present day objective
educational based nursing practices. Even though over most of
his career he has had experience in dealing with Elderly Mentally
Infirm, over the last 22 years he has specialised and become
proficient in EMI care. His responsibility at this employment
as it was in his last employment includes: Marketing, Staff
Management, Systems design and implementation and Care Plan
Implementation with Internal Clinical Audit. Maintaining standards
by clinical audit, is one of the most demanding and efficient
criteria in the care of elderly people, and he has made auditing
one of his specialities.
The
Home employes 8 Full Time Staff and 3 Part Time Trained Staff.
Six trained staff members have a Registered Mental Nurse Qualification,
and Three staff menbers have a Registered General Nurse Qualification.
The Home also employes 19 Full Time Care Assistants and 7 Part
Time Care Assistants and a part time activities co-ordinator.
There are also 3 Full Time Kitchen Staff and 6 Part Time Kitchen
Staff, 3 Office Support Staff, 1 Housekeeper Full Time and 1
Part Time, and 2 Part Time Laundry Staff. The Home Staff are
selected for their qualities of reliability, integrity, skill,
friendliness and professionalism. They are carefully screened
and references are always checked thoroughly. During induction
all staff are trained in-house by experienced qualified senior
staff in the following critical subjects:
- Care code of
conduct
- Confidentiality
- The rights of
Service User's
- Health and Safety
- Food Hygiene
and Safety
- Personal Care
Tasks
- Care Assistants
Responsibilities
- Manual Handling
- First Aid
- Dementia
- Challenging Behaviour
- Fire
- Infection Control
The home insists that all Care
Assistants hold a minumim of NVQ level 2 in Care. All new staff
members must train to achieve this important qualification and
any staff who have not got this level of NVQ on the 1st
April, 2006 must work towards it by the end of that year. At this
current moment in time 82% of our staff are NVQ 2 or above trained.
The Home also sends selected staff members on external training
courses for topics such as Drugs Practice, Palliative Care, Catheter
Care Continence promotion etc...
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