Staff Nurse

One of our clients in the Healthcare & Pharma industries in Malta is looking to recruit an experienced and aspiring Staff Nurse to join their team on a full-time basis.

Responsibilities:

• Identify client care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual clients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements;
• Establish a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to clients, friends and families;
• Carry out a comprehensive and accurate nursing assessment of the client;
• Promote clients’ independence by establishing client care goals: teaching clients, and their family to understand their condition and transition to care, medications and self-care skills; answering queries;
• Assure quality of care by adhering to good clinical practice; measuring health outcomes against client set goals and standards through tailor made care plans; making the right adjustments when necessary;
• Resolve client issues and needs by utilising and communicating with the multidisciplinary team;
• Maintain a safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules and regulations; calling for assistance from care assistants when necessary;
• Protect clients and employees by adhering strictly to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled medications regulations;
• Take clients’ parameters as needed and charts accordingly, recognising trends and alerting the nurse in charge or RMO if results are abnormal;
• Provide direct client care which may be, but are not restricted to; bathing, toileting, mobilising, eating and drinking;
• Maintain accurate and legally appropriate documents of nursing services by charting and filling in documentation in client file and residential home records;
• Maintain nursing consumables inventory by checking stock to determine levels; anticipating needed supplies; liaise with the Charge Nurse regarding ordering of consumables; using consumables and equipment as needed to accomplish results in most cost effective manner;
• Provide direction and supervision to staff by overseeing the work done by care assistants, including the filling in of documentation and brings to their attention any shortcomings. 

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing;
• Certification with the Council for Nurses and Midwives Malta;
• 1+ year/s experience in the same role;
• Fluent in both written and spoken English language.

Skills:

• Meticulous with a keen eye for detail;
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills with a can-do attitude.