HCRG Care Group
Community Registered Nurse Band 6
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Job Introduction
Package Description
As a Community Registered Nurse Band 6 you will be part of our valued team in our Swindon Community Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 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 6 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.
Working within the community, you will provide person-centred care to patients in their own homes and residential settings, supporting them to manage their health needs while helping to prevent avoidable hospital admissions. You'll work closely with a multidisciplinary team including GPs, Therapists, Clinical Leads, Care Coordinators, and the Home First Team to deliver exceptional care and positive outcomes for patients.
We are looking for experienced and compassionate nurses with a background in NHS community or acute care, excellent clinical skills, and the ability to build strong relationships with patients and their families. In return, you'll benefit from a welcoming team environment, ongoing professional development opportunities, and the chance to have a meaningful impact on the lives of people across Swindon every day.
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Join us and help deliver outstanding healthcare where it matters most, in the heart of the community.
If you have any questions about the role, please don't hesitate to get in touch. We'd be happy to answer any queries you may have.
Recruitment Advisor: Ellie-Jane Dixon on 07884 658788 or ellie-jane.dixon@example.com
Main Responsibilities
As Community Registered Nurse Band 6 you will independently manage a caseload of patients, undertaking holistic assessments, care planning, case management, and the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based nursing care within community settings. They will provide care for patients with a wide range of needs, including long-term conditions, post-acute care, urgent care, palliative and end-of-life care, ensuring patients and carers remain at the centre of all decision-making. Responsibilities include safely prescribing medication, promoting health and wellbeing, reducing unnecessary hospital admissions, maintaining accurate clinical records, managing risk, and ensuring compliance with infection prevention, consent, safeguarding, and clinical governance standards.
The role requires close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, patients, carers, and partner organisations to deliver coordinated, integrated care and support service development. The successful candidate will act as a clinical role model, providing leadership, supervision, teaching, and mentorship to junior staff and students, while supporting recruitment, appraisal, professional development, and the creation of a positive learning environment. They will contribute to audit, research, quality improvement, and the implementation of best practice to ensure consistently high standards of patient care across the service.
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
- 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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