HCRG Care Group
Community Registered Nurse Band 5
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Job Introduction
Package Description
As a Community Registered Nurse Band 5 you will be part of our valued team in our Swindon Community Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Job Introduction
Are you a passionate Registered Nurse looking to make a real difference in your community? Do you enjoy delivering high-quality, compassionate care while helping patients remain independent in their own homes?
We are seeking dedicated Community Registered Nurse Band 5 to join our Swindon Integrated Neighbourhood Team. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a supportive and forward-thinking service that places patients at the heart of everything we do.
Join us and help deliver outstanding healthcare where it matters most, in the heart of the community.
We have full-time and part-time vacancies available.
Main Responsibilities
- Participate in assessment and care planning of patient care in conjunction with the Team Manger and support of specialist team members
- Implements and evaluates care and treatment in agreement with the patient and as defined in the care plan – escalates any deviation from the care plan or change in condition to the Team Manager /GP accordingly
- Communicates effectively with patients, carers and all members of the multidisciplinary team
- Prioritises daily work in line with clinical / patient need
- Maintains accurate and legible patient records in line with professional and organisational requirements – this includes electronic patient record system and any paper records
- Implements and works to ensure evidence-based care / best practice
- Actively participates and contributes to team meetings and daily handover
- Initiates health promotion activities with individuals, patients and carers
- Actively involved in the development and implementation of community nursing service developments and initiatives
- Participates in clinical audit and the implementation of changes to ways of working / clinical practice as a result of findings, recommendations and action plans
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A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.
Ideal Candidate
Essential:
- Registered nurse
- First degree
- Post graduate community qualification e.g. community specialist practitioner
- Recognised assessing and supervising students in practice qualification.
- To possess a current, valid driving licence and to be a competent driver
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Knowledge of legislation affecting professional practice
- Experience of applying research-based information to practice
- Non-medical prescriber (or willing to work towards this)
- Up to date community experience
- Case management experience
- Significant experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team
- Leadership experience
- Teaching experience
- Knowledge of recruitment, selection & appraisal system
- Setting and monitoring standards of care
- Experience within a wide range of patient/client care groups.
- To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
- To be able to work flexibly and sensitively.
- Wide range of interpersonal and communication skills
- Competence in a wide range of nursing skills
- I.T. literate
- Skills in preparing and presenting teaching sessions.
- Undertake specific nursing tasks requiring precision and/or intense concentration. Undertaking complex nursing skills
- Manual handling skills and experience
- Ability to sensitively inform service users on complex and distressing issues. Able to support and facilitate staff in dealing with these situations.
- To be flexible and adaptable
- Leadership and Management training
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Desirable:
- Further qualifications relevant to community nursing
- Awareness of recent Government initiatives that may affect future clinical practice
- To be knowledgeable of the clinical governance agenda and have an awareness of commissioning
About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
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