Staff Nurse Band 5 - Cedar Ward

HCRG Care Group; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community health provider in Chippenham is seeking a dedicated Staff Nurse to join their team on Cedar Ward. The role involves planning and delivering compassionate care, promoting patient involvement, and ensuring the highest standards of safety. Ideal candidates are first-level Registered Nurses with current NMC registration and strong communication skills. Opportunities for development and a supportive work environment are key features of this position, backed by exclusive rewards and benefits.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Discounts via My Reward Hub

Access to wages as earned

Mental and physical wellbeing support

Bespoke career pathways and CPD opportunities

Qualifications

• Recent experience in hands-on nursing care for a group of patients.
• Ability to demonstrate effective consolidation of nursing knowledge.
• Adaptable to changing needs of the service.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver compassionate nursing care.
• Ensure highest standards of care and safety.
• Responsible for safe custody and administration of medicines.
• Promote patient involvement in care planning.
• Act as a role model ensuring professional standards.
• Provide legible patient records as per NMC standards.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication

IT-literate

Astute interpersonal skills

Enhanced clinical competencies

Ability to prioritise and organise workload

Experience in delivering hands-on nursing care

Good team member

Self-motivated and compassionate

Education

First-level Registered Nurse

Current/live registration with the Nursing & Midwifery Council

Job description

Job Introduction

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 directly 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.

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

Package Description

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

• £31,049 – £37,796 (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 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 ring‑fenced 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

• Plan, deliver and evaluate compassionate nursing care to meet the patient’s 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 (once competency achieved) within the NMC Standards for Administration of Medicines and adhering to local policy.
• Promote patient involvement in care planning, implementing and sustaining communication systems to keep patients and their relatives/families informed of treatment and progress.
• Ensure effective communication of sensitive information, with regard to the patient assessments and clinical details.
• Act as a role model, ensuring high‑quality, professional standards are maintained and delivered at all times.
• Appropriately assess patients, ensuring early detection of deteriorating patients and escalating to the 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. Act at all times in the patient’s best interest.
• Demonstrate an awareness of safeguarding concerns, escalating and reporting as necessary.
• Respond appropriately to patient and carer’s concerns, escalating to Ward Manager as required.
• Promote equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of care.
• Support Ward Sister’s / Ward Manager to ensure safer staffing numbers are met on each shift.
• Ensure effective resource management is maintained, demonstrating an awareness of cost improvement plans.

The Ideal Candidate

• First‑level Registered Nurse.
• Current/live registration with the Nursing & Midwifery Council.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• IT‑literate.
• Astute interpersonal skills, able to deal with difficult or sensitive situations.
• Ability to prioritise and organise own workload, delegating appropriately.
• Enhanced clinical competencies, including venepuncture and cannulation.
• Up‑to‑date understanding of safeguarding and mental capacity legislation.
• Recent experience in delivering hands‑on nursing care for a group of patients.
• Ability to demonstrate effective consolidation of nursing knowledge and practice after registration and preceptorship.
• Experience 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.

Desirable

• Teaching and assessing in practice qualification.

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. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

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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