Registered Nurse - nights

Huddersfield, HD8 0BG

Position: Registered Nurse – nights

Care home: Lepton Heights
Location: 36 Wakefield Road, Fenay Bridge, Huddersfield, HD8 0BG
Contract type: Full time – Nights – 42 hours per week
Rate: £22.75 per hour

This is an exciting opportunity to work for a forward-thinking and growing provider, who’ll support you to be the best Nurse you can be! Join us as a Registered Nurse at Lepton Heights care home in Huddersfield.

As a Registered Nurse with us, you’ll be empowered to really make a difference. 

Our high staffing levels give you the time to provide truly person-centred nursing care, with a supportive team around you. 

And our excellent training and career development pathways support you to be the best Nurse you can be. 

About Exemplar Health Care 

Lepton Heights is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers. 

Lepton Heights supports adults living with complex needs, such as acquired brain injuries, complex mental health needs, dementia and physical disabilities. 

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

About the role

This is a highly skilled nursing role where you’ll be accountable and responsible for supporting people’s holistic needs. It requires a range of clinical and nursing skills. 

You’ll provide the highest standards of nursing care for adults living with complex care and health needs. Our care focuses on maximising independence and building everyday living skills.

No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

  • assessing, planning and providing person-centred nursing care for the people we support
  • the safe administration of medication
  • promoting health and wellbeing
  • being the Nurse in Charge of a small unit whilst on shift
  • managing situations when people display behaviours of concern
  • promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect.  

Download our job description to read more: 

https://brochures.exemplarhc.com/view/1030013882/

About you

Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You’ll also be:

  • a great role model – able to coach, teach and support your colleagues
  • someone with a calm nature who can deal with, and defuse, challenging situations
  • an advocate of best practice in nursing
  • able to demonstrate a range of clinical skills
  • knowledgeable about assessment, admission and discharge processes
  • knowledgeable of the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and committed to working within its Codes of Practice. 

A career with us will give you the opportunity to learn new skills and see the rewarding progress the people we support make. 

To apply for this role, you must have a first-level nursing registration with a valid Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) PIN. We’re looking for Registered Nurses, from all backgrounds (Adult, Mental Health and Learning Disability Nurses).

What we offer

We offer great rewards and perks including: 

  • excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
  • retail and lifestyle reward discounts
  • free DBS check
  • electric car salary sacrifice scheme
  • paid NMC membership
  • paid access to the RCNi Learning platform
  • 24/7 counselling and support
  • Blue Light Card eligibility.

How to apply

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’. 

For an informal chat about joining us, you can call our Nurse Talent Specialist Nicole on 07949 530 193 or email nbramhall@exemplarhc.com

Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

We will never ask for payment for job opportunities. Any website or individual requesting money for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) while claiming to represent us is not associated with our organisation. If you’re asked for money in connection with a role, please contact recruitment@exemplarhc.com

About Exemplar
Health Care

We're one of the UK's leading providers of nursing care for adults living with complex needs, with more than 60 care homes across England. 

Everything we do is guided by our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success, and teamwork.

This creates a supportive environment where colleagues can grow and make every day better for the people we support.

Getting to Lepton Heights

Lepton Heights, 36 Wakefield Road, Fenay Bridge, Huddersfield, HD8 0BG

Lepton Heights is just off the A642/Wakefield Road next to The Ashfield Lepton Liberal Working Men’s Club.

There are limited parking spaces in the home’s car park. Street parking is available along Wakefield Road.

The home is a short walk from several bus stops.

  • Quarry Lane bus stop on both sides (stop IDs: 45020665 and 45024122), which is accessed by buses 231, 232, and D2 Denby Darts.
  • Penistone Road stop C bus stop, which is accessed by buses D1 Denby Darts, D3 Denby Darts, and X41.
  • Waterloo Rise bus stop, which is accessed by bus 372 HD Connect.

There’s also a train station in the area.

  • Huddersfield – 2.7 miles away (10 minute drive).