Community Nurse (Band 5)

HCRG Care Group; Amesbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

My Reward Hub

Wages on demand

Wellbeing resources

Career development

Innovation funding

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is recruiting a Community Nurse for Amesbury Health Centre to join a supportive team focused on safe, effective and evidence-based care. You will deliver care in patients' homes, participate in planning, and contribute to service development within the community nursing team.

The role requires excellent communication, organisational and clinical skills, a full UK driving licence, and competence with IT systems and Microsoft Office.

Qualifications

• Full UK driving licence with access to a car for work purposes.
• Confidence using IT systems and Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel).

Responsibilities

• Participate in assessment and care planning of patient care in conjunction with the Team Manager and specialist team members.
• Implement and evaluate care and treatment in agreement with the patient and care plan.
• Communicate effectively with patients, carers and the multidisciplinary team.
• Prioritise daily work in line with clinical/patient need.
• Maintain accurate patient records in line with requirements, including electronic records.
• Implement and work to ensure evidence-based care/best practice.
• Participate in team meetings and daily handover.
• Initiate health promotion activities with individuals, patients and carers.
• Contribute to community nursing service developments and initiatives.

Skills

Full UK driving licence

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

This rewarding role offers the opportunity to work autonomously while being part of a supportive community team committed to delivering safe, effective, and evidence-based care. You will contribute to service development, health promotion, continuous improvement initiatives, and the education of students and colleagues, ensuring the highest standards of care are maintained across the service. 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:

• Participate in assessment and care planning of patient care in conjunction with the Team Manger and support of specialist team members
• Implements and evaluates care and treatment in agreement with the patient and as defined in the care plan - escalates any deviation from the care plan or change in condition to the Team Manager /GP accordingly
• Communicates effectively with patients, carers and all members of the multidisciplinary team
• Prioritises daily work in line with clinical / patient need
• Maintains accurate and legible patient records in line with professional and organisational requirements - this includes electronic patient record system and any paper records
• Implements and works to ensure evidence-based care / best practice
• Actively participates and contributes to team meetings and daily handover
• Initiates health promotion activities with individuals, patients and carers
• Actively involved in the development and implementation of community nursing service developments and initiatives

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.

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 a Community Nurse Band 5, you'll be part of our valued team at Amesbury Health Centre, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• 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