Band 5 Ward Nurse- Sapphire Ward

NHS; Gravesend; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Gravesend is seeking enthusiastic Band 5 Nurses to join their friendly Ward team. The role involves collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to assess and deliver holistic patient care, particularly for those recovering from strokes or neurological conditions. The ideal candidate will be a registered nurse with strong communication skills, able to work flexible shifts. Benefits include an AFC Band 5 salary, NHS Pension, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

NHS Pension

5% Area High Cost Allowance

Discounts through My Reward Hub

Access to wages as earned

Mental and physical wellbeing support

eLearning and career pathways

Open culture for innovation

Good quality standards and CQC ratings

Free tea, coffee, and milk

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with a license to practice, passionate about rehabilitation.
• Willingness to cover all shift patterns, including nights and weekends.
• Confident using IT systems, with knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high standards of patient-focused care.
• Provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Organisational skills

IT competency (Microsoft Office)

Passion for patient rehabilitation

Education

Registered Nurse with a license to practice

Job description

We are looking for enthusiastic and passionate Band 5 Nurses to join our friendly and welcoming Ward team based on our Sapphire Ward at Gravesham Community Hospital, North Kent to help us to continue to change things for the better.

As a Ward Nurse, you will work collaboratively alongside our multi‑disciplinary teams. We have 21 beds for patients where you will be responsible for contributing to the holistic assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of patient care. You should be passionate about the rehabilitation of patients who have suffered from a stroke/neurological condition in your care and be encouraging them to aid their ability for independent living.

You will use your strong communication and organisation skills, along with a flexible approach, to ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.

You will care for patients and their families in the way that you believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work to help us continue to change things for the better. We feel passionate that everyone should feel valued when they come into contact with our organisation, whether that’s you, someone we care for or the wider community we operate in.

We currently have a full‑time position (37.5 hours per week).

Main duties of the job

• Maintain a high standard of patient‑focused care.
• Maintain a safe and clean working environment.
• Provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care for patients, ensuring accurate written records are kept.
• Communicate with patients and carers to ensure they have access to appropriate information.
• Promote and maintain positive relationships between all staff involved in the care of the patient.
• Act in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

About the Company

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 are a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

Job responsibilities

The Ideal Candidate

You will be a registered Nurse with a license to practice and should be passionate about the rehabilitation of patients in your care and be encouraging them to aid their ability for independent living. Our services operate 24/7, so a willingness to cover all shift patterns including nights and weekends is essential.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

Benefits

• AFC Band 5 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• 5% Area High Cost Allowance
• 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 organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with most of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location

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.