Band 5 Staff Nurse (12 Months Fixed Term Contract)

HCRG Care Group; Skelmersdale; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

My Reward Hub discounts

Wage access on demand

Learning & development opportunities

NHS Pension

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Band 5 Community Staff Nurse to work in Skelmersdale, delivering care in patients’ homes with a family-centred approach. You’ll join a skilled team to promote child and family wellbeing, following NHS standards and Agenda for Change terms.

The role emphasises community health, safeguarding, and collaboration with the SCPHN pathway. You will support diverse families, require NMC registration, and may need driving to visit service users across the locality.

Qualifications

• Be a registered nurse with NMC registration.
• Desirable: understanding of health promotion/public health activities.
• Ability to act independently as well as part of the multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the healthy child programme at four levels as delegated by SCPHN.
• Support leadership and delivery of a quality function (experience, supervision per guidelines).
• Be trauma aware and understand trauma-informed care and Adverse Childhood Experiences impacts.
• Recognise health needs and refer to SCPHN when necessary.

Skills

NMC registered nurse

Public health awareness (desirable)

Independent working & MDT teamwork

UK driving licence

Job description

Join HCRG Care Group as a Band 5 Community Staff Nurse and make a positive impact on the lives of patients in Skelmersdale. As a Community Staff Nurse, you will have the chance to work closely with families in their own homes, providing exceptional care and support. You will work as part of a skill mix team, helping to ensure a smooth and seamless journey. With a focus on person-centred care, you'll have the chance to make a real difference in families lives every day. So, if you're a registered nurse with a passion for community care and a commitment to providing high-quality children and family-centred care, we'd love to hear from you.

The post is based in the Skelmersdale Library postcode WN8 6NL.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the healthy child programme at four levels as delegated by the Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner (SCPHN)
• Support leadership and delivery of a quality function (such as, service user experience and undertake supervision as per HCRG Care Group guidelines)
• To be trauma aware and understand the principles of a trauma informed approach to care and the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on children, young people and adults
• Ability to recognise health needs for individual clients and situations in relation to the health of children, young people, individuals and families, in complex situations, identifying situations where referral for support from SCPHN is necessary

To succeed in this role, you’ll bring a combination of skills, experience and personal qualities that align with our values.

Ideal Candidate

• Be a registered nurse with NMC registration and a passion for improving the lives of children and families within the local community.
• Be experienced and have an understanding of health promotion / public health activities is desirable
• Ability to act independently as well as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Have a valid UK driving licence, with access to a car for work purposes.

Job Introduction

• Band 5 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

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.

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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