Band 5 Community Nurse

HCRG Care Group; Swindon; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading community health provider as a Band 5 Community Nurse in Swindon. You'll provide essential nursing care to patients in their homes, ensuring dignity and respect. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and lead nursing practices while enjoying a supportive work environment and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Discounts on everyday purchases

Access to wages as earned

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Continuing professional development opportunities

Free tea, coffee, and milk

Qualifications

• Experience in systematic assessment, planning, and evaluation of needs-led care.
• Ability to perform a full range of nursing duties, including wound care and palliative care.

Responsibilities

• Deliver nursing care within operational and clinical protocols.
• Contribute to leadership and management of the nursing team.
• Participate in the teaching and assessment of pre- and post-registration students.

Skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Time-management

Interpersonal skills

Education

Registered Nurse (Adult)

Tools

IT systems

Job description

As a Band 5 Community Nurse you will provide nursing care to patients in their own homes and other community residences as part of our community nursing team. To provide clinical care and treatment to those patients who require wound care management, administration and support with medications, and catheter care, as well as providing care and support to those patients with a life limiting illness and their families, that require palliative care support to remain at home during the last weeks of life. To work closely within the 24/7 community nursing teams who provide planned and unplanned care and develop strong working relationships with the GP, multidisciplinary teams and social care services in the delivery of care. To ensure that the care provided maintains the dignity and respect of the individual and promotes their comfort and wellbeing at all times.

Main Responsibility

As a Community Nurse you will will deliver nursing care within operational and clinical protocols, ensuring safe, high-quality practice while working alongside clinical teams across community services. They will contribute to the leadership, management, and organization of the nursing team, accepting delegated nursing tasks from senior staff and escalating concerns as needed. A key part of the role is promoting a person-centered approach, ensuring service user autonomy and involvement while maintaining accurate written records in compliance with service, NMC, and partner agency standards.

Additionally, the role involves maintaining a multidisciplinary approach to care, identifying opportunities to enhance health promotion interventions, and ensuring evidence-based practice is applied in all aspects of care delivery. The post holder will be expected to challenge any practice that does not meet required standards, deliver personalized care with dignity and respect, and strive for continuous improvement in clinical practice through research and professional development.

Other responsibilities include participating in the teaching and assessment of pre- and post-registration students, adhering to Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Equity and Diversity protocols, and managing concerns and complaints promptly in collaboration with relevant personnel. The post holder will also support the implementation of information technology within the service while ensuring compliance with data protection regulations and safeguarding protocols.

The role requires flexibility in working hours, including evenings, weekends, and Bank Holidays, with the expectation of maintaining suitable transport for service delivery. Due to the nature of the work, an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is required.

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

The Ideal Candidate

• Registered Nurse (Adult) – first or second level registration with the NMC.

• Experience in systematic assessment, planning, and evaluation of needs-led care.

• Ability to perform a full range of nursing duties, including wound care, catheter care, palliative care, diabetes management, and administering injections.

• Strong written and oral communication skills.

• Knowledge of legislation relevant to professional practice.

• Proficiency in IT systems.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team.

• Strong organizational and time-management skills.

• Adaptability to a diverse range of responsibilities, including home visits and using patient record systems.

• Awareness of current NHS developments and best practices.

• Ability to make informed decisions within a community setting.

• Strong interpersonal skills for engaging with diverse individuals and multidisciplinary teams.

• Capacity to thrive in a complex and dynamic environment.

• Approachable, emotionally intelligent, and adaptable.

Other Requirements

• Willingness to work across different Trust areas as required.

• Valid UK driving license with access to a vehicle for work purposes.

• Flexible availability, including weekends, evenings, and Bank Holidays, to meet service demands.

Package Description

As a Band 5 Community Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team at Swindon North Neighbourhood Team, working in our Community Team.

You will feel valued as a Community Nursewithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• AFC Band 5with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salarywith evidence provided)
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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, coffee, and milk at your base location

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.

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• Job Category HCRG - Nursing and Midwifery Registered