Band 4 Nurse Associate

NHS; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a Band 4 Nurse Associate at Beacon House with the NHS, focusing on high-quality patient care. You will gain valuable experience in a supportive environment, working closely with health professionals while maintaining patient respect and confidentiality.

Benefits

NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions

Access to discounts on everyday purchases and cashback offers

Online and face-to-face support for mental and physical wellbeing

Access to eLearning and career development opportunities

Free tea and coffee at base location

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a care or health setting is desirable.
• Commitment to undertaking additional studies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver aspects of nursing care to highly dependent patients.
• Use sound clinical reasoning skills when delivering care.
• Organise and prioritise own workload.

Skills

Compassion

Clinical reasoning

Teamwork

Education

Qualifications to be accepted on the academic programme

Job description

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Band 4 Nurse Associate to join our dynamic team at Beacon House, part of the Wiltshire Hospital at Home service.

As a Band 4 Nurse Associate you will gain valuable hands-on experience under the direct supervision of registered practitioners, developing the practical skills, clinical knowledge, and professional attitude necessary to deliver high-quality care across a variety of healthcare settings.

You will become part of a supportive, experienced, and friendly nursing team that values collaboration and is passionate about providing outstanding patient care. At Beacon House, teamwork is central to everything we do.

Our multidisciplinary team includes other Band 4 Nurse Associates as well as Band 5, Band 6, and Band 7 nursing professionals, all of whom are available to provide guidance and mentorship.

You'll also work closely with a range of primary healthcare professionals, including GPs, Community Matrons, and specialist services such as Tissue Viability, Heart Failure Nurses, and Diabetic Specialist Nurses, ensuring a holistic and integrated approach to patient care.

Main duties of the job

As a Nurse Associate you will:

• Work in care teams with other professionals, providing practical help by delivering aspects of nursing care to vulnerable and often highly dependent patients.
• Use sound clinical reasoning skills when delivering care and therapy interventions
• Deliver a delegated workload against the needs of patients and service
• Treat all individuals with respect and maintain privacy, dignity and confidentiality
• Commit to personal and professional development
• Organise, prioritise and adjust own workload
• Accurately and effectively report on care undertaken and document changes in condition, maintain records, and ensure that there is feedback to the appropriate or responsible healthcare professional.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were 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 well need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As a Nurse Associate, you'll be part of our valued team at Beacon House, Wiltshire Hospital at home team.

You will feel valued as a Nurse Associate within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £25,200 - £27,825 Band 4 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 a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea and coffee at your base location

Our ideal candidate will have:

• The required qualifications to be accepted on the academic programme
• A commitment to undertaking any additional studies
• Have a driving license and access to a car for work purposes.
• Able to work independently, using own initiative
• Previous experience in a care or health setting

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.