Staff Nurse Band 5 - Cedar Ward

NHS; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organisation in Chippenham is seeking a compassionate Registered Nurse to join their diverse team. You will be responsible for planning and delivering individualised nursing care, ensuring patient safety, and maintaining clinical standards. The ideal candidate will have a First Level Registered Nurse qualification and current registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council. Competitive benefits include NHS pension, professional development opportunities, and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Access to My Reward Hub

Continuing Professional Development opportunities

Free on-site parking

Access to mental and physical wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Recent experience in delivering hands-on nursing care for a group of patients.
• Up to date understanding of safeguarding and mental capacity legislation.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Plan, deliver and evaluate compassionate nursing care.
• Ensure the highest standards of care and safety.
• Promote patient involvement in care planning.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication

I.T. Literate

Astute interpersonal skills

Ability to prioritise and organise own workload

Enhanced clinical competencies

Experience within a range of patient/client care groups

Good team member

Self-motivated and compassionate

Education

First Level Registered Nurse

Current/live registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council

Job description

Overview

Are you a Registered Nurse looking to work with an organisation that actively promotes the health and wellbeing and development of their staff? You may be experienced, working in the private sector, or a newly Registered Nurse?

Cedar Ward is a nurse-led 17 bedded unit which specialises in rehabilitation and sub-acute care. You will be working within a diverse team, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurse Associates Healthcare Assistants, Rehabilitation Support Workers, Discharge Co-ordinators, Speech & Language Therapists, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Doctors.

There are numerous opportunities to develop your skills and we will provide Continuing Professional Development to keep your clinical skills up to date.

Chippenham Hospitals offers a canteen and free on-site parking.

Please contact the ward direct if you would like to arrange an informal walk around

If you are interested in becoming part of our dynamic team, please don\'t hesitate to contact Jayne Barrett, Ward Manager ([e-mail]) who will be happy to answer any questions.

*Please note that we are unable to accept applications from International Nurses without a current NMC registration.

Main duties of the job

Plan, deliver and evaluate compassionate nursing care to meet the patients individualised needs.

Ensure the highest standards of care and safety are maintained.

Responsible for the safe custody and administration of medicines, using a range of routes

Promote patient involvement in care planning, Implementing and sustaining communication systems to keep patients and their relatives/families informed of treatment and progress

To ensure effective communication is achieved and maintained of sensitive information, with regard to the patient assessments and clinical details.

To appropriately assess patients, ensuring early detection of the deteriorating patient and escalating to medical team as appropriate.

Provide legible and comprehensive patient records to agreed Organisational and NMC standards and guidelines.

Participate in the assessment of mental capacity of patients, referring for deprivation of liberties as appropriate. Acting at all times in patients best interest

Demonstrate an awareness of safeguarding concerns, escalating and reporting as necessary.

Respond appropriately to patient and carers concerns, escalating to Ward Manager as required

To support Ward Sisters / Ward Manager to ensure safer staffing numbers are met on each shift

To ensure effective resource management is maintained, demonstrating an awareness of cost improvement plans

Please see the attached Job description for the full list.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were 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 well need to close it earlier than the date we\'ve shown here. If you\'re keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

You will feel valued as a Staff Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• AFC Band 5 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
• Plentiful on site-parking
• 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 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 a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

The Ideal Candidate

First Level Registered Nurse

Current/live registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council

Excellent written and verbal communication

I.T. Literate

Astute interpersonal skills and is able to deal with difficult/sensitive situations

Ability to prioritise and organise own workload, delegating appropriately

Enhanced clinical competencies, including venepuncture and cannulation for example

Up to date understanding of safeguarding and mental capacity legislation

Recent experience in delivering hands on nursing care for a group of patients

Able to demonstrate effective consolidation of nursing knowledge and practice after registration and Preceptorship

Working within a multi-disciplinary team environment

Experience within a range of patient/client care groups

Evidence of continuing professional development.

Good team member, able to complement group dynamics

Adaptable to changing needs of the service

Self-motivated, compassionate

Willing to work in other areas of Wiltshire Health and Care as and when required to do so.

Desirable

Teaching and assessing in practice qualification

Person Specification

General Requirements

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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.