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NHS Jobs; Milbourne; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Discount Hub

CPD opportunities

Job summary

NHS Jobs is recruiting a Band 5 Community Nurse to join the Integrated Neighbourhood team at Malmesbury Primary Care Centre, SN16 0FB. The role involves assessing, planning, and delivering community-based nursing care, in patients’ homes or care settings, under supervision.

The successful candidate will work independently within the nursing process, supervise junior staff, and contribute to quality assurance. Fixed-term for 12 months; driving to patient homes required.

Qualifications

• NMC registration and nursing degree are essential.
• Proficient IT skills with common software.
• Valid driving licence and access to a vehicle for work.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical care in line with NMC standards.
• Plan, prioritise and deliver nursing care within the community setting.
• Supervise less experienced staff and contribute to quality assurance.

Skills

NMC Registration

IT Skills

Driving Licence

Teamwork

Communication Skills

Education

Nursing degree

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Location: Malmesbury Primary Care Centre, SN16 0FB

Package Description: As a Community Nurse Band 5, youll be part of our valued team at Beacon House,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 lifes 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 youre 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 Are you a compassionate and motivated Registered Nurse looking to make a real difference in the community? We are looking for a dedicated Band 5 Community Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team. The Integrated Neighbourhood team is a community-based service which supports and works with people, either in their own home or in Residentlal or Nursing Homes. The role of the community nurse is to work with the multi professional team within community serviceproviding clinical support in assessing, planning, organising, and delivering clinical care in line with serviceand patient needs, as agreed with supervising clinicians. The community nurse works independently, working within the sphere of nursing care and within all aspectsof the nursing process. The post holder will act professionally at all times and use their knowledge andexperience to make evidence-based decisions to solve challenges and problems. They recognse and workwithin the limits of ther competencies and are responsible and accountable for their actions. The post holder will have responsibility for supervising less experienced or qualified staff and studentsduring their placements. They will be expected to actively contribute to quality assurance processes andservice development.

Location: Malmesbury Primary Care Centre, SN16 0FB

Please note that this is a fixed-term position for 1 year.

Main Responsibilities

• 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.
• Demonstrates an ability to prioritise and manage their own workload and recognise where elements of care can safely be delegated to other colleagues, carers, and family members.
• Facilitates the provision of care for people, including those with complex needs.
• To keep the patient at the centre of their care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decisionmaking.
• Provide sensitive, compassionate, safe, and effective care to support people in a range of care settings, applying the principles and processes for making reasonable adjustments.
• Implenment all elements of the nursing process including the on-going assessment, planning, management, and evaluation of care.
• Manage own caseload within scope of practice
• Undertake clinical tasks including observations, catheterisation, venepuncture and ECGs.
• This is notan exhaustive list; additional competency-based skills relevant to clinical area can be attained. Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate Essential:

• Nursing Registration (NMC).
• Nursing degree qualification.
• Previous experience of working in a healthcare setting as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Able to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of the workload and individual patientcontact.
• Proficient in using a variety of IT systems for example SystmOne, word, excel.
• Able to competently and safely administer medication according to organisation policy.
• Able to support, supervise, assess, and act as a role model.
• Passionate about delivering safe patient focused care.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as a team member.
• Good time management skills.
• Valid UK driving license with access to a vehicle for work purposes.
• Shows commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.
• Good time management skills.
• Have good interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.

The Ideal Candidate Desirable:

• Evidence Of involvement in support / development of less experienced staff.
• Demonstrates knowledge of clinical audit and improvement methodology.
• Experience of working in the community.

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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy. As youd 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.