Community Nurse (Band 5) - Amesbury

Hcrg Care Group; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension and Agenda for Change

Discounts via My Reward Hub

Salary access between pay periods

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a compassionate Band 5 Community Nurse for Amesbury Health Centre. You will work autonomously within a supportive community team, delivering safe and evidence-based care while contributing to service development and health promotion.

The ideal candidate is an NMC/1st level registered Nurse with strong communication and organisational skills, a full UK driving licence, and proficiency in IT systems including Microsoft Office. UK registration is required.

Qualifications

• NMC/1st level registered Nurse required.
• Full UK driving licence with access to a car.
• Ability to work independently within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Participate in assessment and care planning with the Team Manager.
• Implement and evaluate care as defined in the care plan.
• Communicate effectively with patients, carers and the multidisciplinary team.
• Maintain accurate patient records and use the electronic record system.
• Promote health and participate in community nursing developments.

Skills

Communication

Organisation

IT skills

Education

NMC/1st level registered Nurse

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Introduction
Are you a compassionate and motivated Registered Nurse looking to make a real difference in your local community? We are seeking a dedicated Band 5 Community Nurse to join our friendly team based at Amesbury Health Centre.
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.
Location: Amesbury Health Centre, SP4 7AN
Hours: We have both part-time and full-time hours available.
For any enquiries regarding this role, please contact [e-mail]
Package Description
As a Community Nurse Band 5, you will 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 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 the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

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:

• Participate in assessment and care planning of patient care in conjunction with the Team Manager and support of specialist team members
• Implement and evaluate care and treatment in agreement with the patient and as defined in the care plan, escalating any deviation from the care plan or change in condition to the Team Manager / GP accordingly
• Communicate effectively with patients, carers and all members of the multidisciplinary team
• Prioritise daily work in line with clinical / patient need
• Maintain accurate and legible patient records in line with professional and organisational requirements, including the electronic patient record system and any paper records
• Implement and work to ensure evidence-based care / best practice
• Actively participate and contribute to team meetings and daily handover
• Initiate health promotion activities with individuals, patients and carers
• Actively involved in the development and implementation of community nursing service developments and initiatives

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate
You will be a NMC/1st level registered Nurse, with the ability to work both independently and 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 licence 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.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

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.

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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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HCRG Care Group is a Disability Confident Committed employer and welcomes applications from a broad, diverse range of people.