Band 5 Community Staff Nurse

NHS; Bath; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS community nursing team as a Band 5 Nurse and make a difference in patient care. This rewarding role offers flexibility in your schedule, opportunities for professional development, and a supportive environment. You will provide vital services mainly in patients' homes, working with a dedicated team to enhance patients' quality of life.

Benefits

NHS pension

Free tea and coffee

On-site car parking

Discounts on everyday purchases

Access to wages as you earn

Online mental health support

Continuing professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• NMC registered or newly qualified nurse.
• Full UK driving license with access to a car.
• Ability to work independently and in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide care to patients in their homes or care homes.
• Undertake wound management and venepuncture.
• Administer medications including IV and controlled drugs.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Flexibility

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and passionate Band 5 Nurse to join our Community Nursing team based in BaNES.

This is an extremely rewarding role providing care to patients predominantly in their own homes or care homes.

You will join a caring and supportive team of Community Nurses and Healthcare Assistants where individual development and progression is key and teamwork is at the centre.

Core service hours are 8.00am - 5pm Monday to Friday with some weekend and bank holiday working required on a rota basis. Your focus will be to offer advice and support to housebound service users in their own homes to promote their well-being and independence. You will also be offered a flexible role where you can work your own diary to provide continuity of care.

We offer an individually tailored induction programme to suit your needs and interests and to help you develop your skills to be the best they can be, as well as preceptorships for newly qualified nurses along with other Continuous Professional Development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

As a Community Nurse, your main responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Undertake wound management.
• Undertake venepuncture.
• Male/female/supra-pubic catheterisations.
• Administration of medication s/c, im, pr, IV, transdermal, oral, controlled drugs.
• Pressure ulcer prevention.
• Continence assessments including use of equipment.
• To promote independence and quality of life at end of life recognising individual needs, rights, and dignity.

A full list of role responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.

About us

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 may need to close it earlier than the date 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.

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

Job responsibilities

You will feel valued as a Band 5 Community Nurse with HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £29,970 - £36,483 and AfC terms and conditions including an NHS pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• On-site car parking!
• 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 as 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 organization 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

You will:

• Be an NMC Registered Nurse or a newly qualified nurse
• Have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes
• Be able to work both independently and as part of a wider multidisciplinary team
• Have strong communication and organisation skills and a flexible approach
• Be looking for a role that is rewarding and varied and where you get to develop lasting relationships with service users

We provide a supportive preceptorship programme to allow you to develop your skills in your new career.

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.