Community Nurse

HCRG Care Group; Devizes; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

My Reward Hub discounts

Earned wage access

Wellbeing support

Learning and development opportunities

Innovation funding

High care quality standards

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Band 6 Community Nurse / District Nurse to deliver high-quality, person-centred nursing care within the community from Beacon House, Devizes. You will conduct comprehensive assessments, plan and coordinate care, and deliver evidence-based interventions with a multidisciplinary team.

You will work autonomously, using your clinical knowledge and experience to make informed decisions and manage complex situations.

Qualifications

• NMC/1st level registered nurse status.
• Full UK driving licence with car access.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel).

Responsibilities

• Understand and act in line with NMC professional standards.
• Work in a mixed-skill team, organise, prioritise and plan workload.
• Use assessment tools to inform patient needs and risk.
• Identify abuse/self-harm risks and safeguarding issues.
• Provide health promotion advice to patients and carers.
• Provide clinical supervision and support to less experienced staff.

Skills

NMC Registration

Teamwork

Communication

IT Skills (Outlook/Word/Excel)

Driving Licence

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Job Introduction

• Band 6 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

Job Introduction

• Band 6 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

Job Introduction

As a Band 6 Community Nurse / District Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centred nursing care within the community. Working as part of a supportive multi-professional team, you will undertake comprehensive clinical assessments, plan and coordinate care, and deliver evidence-based interventions that respond to the individual needs of patients and the wider service.

You will work autonomously, using your clinical knowledge, skills and experience to make informed, evidence-based decisions, manage complex situations and respond effectively to clinical challenges. You will be accountable for your own practice, ensuring you work professionally, safely and within the limits of your competence, taking responsibility for your clinical decisions and actions.

An important aspect of the role will be supporting and developing others. You will provide clinical supervision and guidance to less experienced colleagues and students on placement, helping to foster a positive learning environment and maintain high standards of patient care.

You will also contribute to the ongoing development of the service through active involvement in quality assurance, clinical governance and service improvement initiatives, helping us to continually enhance the care and experience we provide to our patients.

Location: Beacon House, Devizes, SN10 2EY

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

For any enquiries regarding this role, please contact Donna.Pearce

Main Responsibilities

As a Community Nurse you will require excellent communication, organisation, and clinical skills, alongside a commitment to delivering compassionate care and continuously developing professional practice:

• Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice.
• Working as a member of a skill mixed team, responsible for interacting constructively with teammembers and organising, prioritising, and planning their work.
• Uses a range of assessment tools pertinent to the patients' needs, to inform the assessment and assess risk for both patients and staff.
• Recognise and assess patients at risk of abuse, self-harm/and or suicidal ideation and the situations that may put themselves and others at risk.
• Identify opportunities to provide advice and support to patients to enable them to make informed choices in the area Of health promotion.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential:

You will be a NMC/1st level registered Nurse, you will have the ability to work both independently and also as part of a wider multidisciplinary team. It is expected that you should have strong communication and organisation skills and a flexible approach which will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.

You will have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes with Business insurance for the vehicle used.

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.

Desirable:

• Evidence of involvement in support / development of less experienced staff.
• Demonstrates knowledge of clinical audit and improvement methodology.
• Willingness to work across different organisation areas as required.
• District Nurse Qualification
• Non- medical prescriber
• Wound Care course
• Palliative Care Course
• NVQ Assessor/Teaching and Assessing
• Appraisal experience
• Recruitment experience
• Audit and Research skill

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.

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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