Staff Nurse Band 5 - Cedar Ward - FTC

HCRG Care Group; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Discounts via My Reward Hub

Wellbeing & CPD support

Career development opportunities

Job summary

HCRG Care Group is seeking a Staff Nurse for Cedar Ward in Chippenham. Cedar Ward is a 17-bed rehabilitation and sub-acute unit with a multidisciplinary team including Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, nurses, and doctors.

This role offers 6-month fixed-term employment with the potential for extension, access to CPD through The Learning Enterprise, and a wide range of rewards and wellbeing support.

Qualifications

• Current/live registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Astute interpersonal skills; able to handle sensitive situations.
• Ability to prioritise and organise own workload.
• Enhanced clinical competencies: venepuncture and cannulation.
• Up-to-date safeguarding and mental capacity knowledge.
• Recent hands-on nursing experience with a group of patients.
• Consolidation of nursing knowledge post-registration/Preceptorship.
• Experience in a multi-disciplinary team environment.
• Willingness to work in other Wiltshire Health and Care areas as required.
• Teaching and assessing in practice qualification.

Responsibilities

• Plan, deliver and evaluate compassionate nursing care tailored to individual patient needs.
• Maintain highest standards of care and safety.
• Administer medicines safely within NMC guidelines and local policy.
• Promote patient involvement in care planning and keep families informed.
• Ensure effective communication of sensitive information with patients and relatives.
• Act as role model, maintaining high professional standards.
• Assess patients early for deterioration and escalate to medical team as needed.
• Maintain legible, comprehensive patient records per organisational and NMC standards.
• Assess mental capacity and refer for deprivation of liberties as appropriate.
• Demonstrate safeguarding awareness and escalate concerns.
• Respond to patient and carer concerns and escalate to Ward Manager.
• Promote equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of care.
• Support Ward Sister/Manager to ensure safer staffing and resource management.

Skills

NMC registration

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Prioritisation

Venepuncture

Cannulation

Safeguarding knowledge

Preceptorship knowledge

Teamwork in MDT

CPD awareness

Willing to work across Wiltshire

Job description

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You will feel valued as a Staff Nursewithin HCRG Care Group, 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

Job Introduction

Are you a Staff 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 note that this post is being advertised on a 6-month fixed-term basis, with the possibility of an extension subject to service needs, and we are unable to accept applications from International Nurses without a current NMC registration.

Main Responsibilities

• 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 (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
• To ensure effective communication is achieved and maintained of sensitive information, with regard to the patient assessments and clinical details .
• To act as a role model, ensuring high quality, professional standards are maintained and delivered at all times.
• 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 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
• To promote equality, diversion and inclusion in all aspects of care.
• To support Ward Sister’s / 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

The Ideal Candidate

• Current/live registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• 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.
• Teaching and assessing in practice qualification

Please see the attached Job description for the full list.

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 .

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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