Band 4 Nurse Associate

HCRG Care Group; Devizes; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated community team as a Nursing Associate, providing essential nursing care and support to patients in their own homes. This role offers the opportunity to make a real difference in community health while working collaboratively with various healthcare professionals. With a focus on personal development and patient-centered care, you will have access to comprehensive training and benefits in a values-driven organization.

Benefits

AFC Band 4 with NHS Pension

Access to discounts via My Reward Hub

Access to eLearning and career development opportunities

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Opportunities for ongoing learning and mentorship

Qualifications

• Registered as a Nurse Associate with the NMC.
• Experience in a healthcare setting.
• A valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work.

Responsibilities

• Provide essential nursing care to patients in their homes.
• Support assessments and help patients stay well.
• Manage a delegated workload and ensure effective communication with the healthcare team.

Skills

Compassionate

Team Player

Strong Communication Skills

Flexible

Education

Nursing Associate Foundation Degree

Job description

Join Our Devizes Community Team – Make a Real Difference Close to Home!

Position: Nursing Associate

Are you a passionate and motivated Nursing Associate? Do you thrive in a supportive, collaborative environment where your care makes a direct impact in people’s lives?

We’re looking for an enthusiastic, dedicated individual to join our Devizes Community Team, where we work across homes, hospitals, and community bases to provide high-quality care — as close to home as possible.

What You'll Be Doing:

You’ll be an integral part of our multidisciplinary community team, working alongside:

Community Nurses

Clinical Leads

Physiotherapists & Occupational Therapists

Healthcare and Rehab Support Workers

GPs and other key partners

In this role, you'll provide essential nursing care to patients in their own homes — delivering both planned and unplanned care, contributing to assessments, and supporting patients to stay well and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.

What We’re Looking For:

Nursing Associate Foundation Degree & NMC registration

Experience in a healthcare setting

A compassionate, flexible team player who thrives under pressure

Strong communication and IT skills

A valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work

Why Join Us?

Be part of a forward-thinking, values-driven community team

Comprehensive preceptorship and induction programme

Opportunities for ongoing learning, mentorship and development

A workplace where your skills and ideas are valued and nurtured

If you're passionate about patient-centred care and want to work where you can see the impact of your work every day, we would love to hear from you. Apply today and help us bring exceptional care into the heart of our community.

For further information or to arrange an informal visit please call

Clare Tinnion – Community Team Manager – On 01380 732 525.

Main Responsibility

This list is intended to summarise the key responsibilities and is not intended to cover every task that may be required of the role: -

• To adhere to organisational policy and procedures.
• Commitment to personal and professional development
• To treat all individuals with respect and maintain privacy, dignity and confidentiality at all times.
• Responsible for delivering a delegated workload against the needs of patients and service requirement
• Able to manage own time effectively
• Plans and organise tasks and activities to be completed within agreed timescales
• Organise, prioritise and adjust own workload in relation to patient care.
• To work in care teams with other professionals, providing practical help to registered practitioners by delivering delegated aspects of nursing care to vulnerable and often highly dependent patients with a range of illnesses.
• To use sound clinical reasoning skills when delivering care and therapy interventions in line with goals agreed with the individual and set by a registered health professional, this would only be expected following appropriate training or when competency reached.
• To be able to accurately and effectively report on care undertaken and document changes in condition, maintain accurate and contemporaneous records, in hand-written or electronic format and ensure that there is feedback to the appropriate or responsible registered healthcare professional.
• To establish good therapeutic relationships with individuals and be able to communicate effectively in order to overcome barriers to understanding when treating individuals who may have physical or mental health issues or learning difficulties that affect their ability to communicate, understand or reason.
• To assist in the maintenance, cleaning and storage of equipment.
• To attend team meetings and appropriate education and training to ensure continuing professional development.
• To actively participate in setting personal objectives through appraisal and clinical supervision.
• To participate in active rotation to support the key objectives of course delivery
• To follow Medicines management and administration standard operating procedures for the organization and follow policy for safe and effective administration and optimization of medicines. This should be in accordance with NMC standards of proficiency for Nursing Associates

The Ideal Candidate

• Registered as a Nurse Associate with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) • Car driver
• Able to work independently, using own initiative and knowing when to seek advice.

Package Description

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

• AFC Band 4 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• 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

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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