Job Introduction
Are you a compassionate and motivated Registered Nurse looking for flexible opportunities within community nursing? We are seeking enthusiastic Band 5 Community Nurses to join our bank team and provide high-quality, person-centred care to patients in their own homes and community settings.
The Integrated Neighbourhood team is a community-based service which supports and works with people, either in their own home or in Residential or Nursing Homes.
The role of the community nurse is to work with the multi professional team within community service providing clinical support in assessing, planning, organising, and delivering clinical care in line with service and patient needs, as agreed with supervising clinicians.
The community nurse works independently, working within the sphere of nursing care and within all aspects of the nursing process. The post holder will act professionally at all times and use their knowledge and experience to make evidence-based decisions to solve challenges and problems. They recognise and work within the limits of their competencies and are responsible and accountable for their actions.
The post holder will have responsibility for supervising less experienced or qualified staff and students during their placements. They will be expected to actively contribute to quality assurance processes and service development.
Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
Base: St Martin's Hospital, BA2 5RP
For any enquiries, please contact Dagmara.Doraczynska@hcrgcaregroup.com
The Ideal candidate will have -
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 patient contact.
- 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.
- Self-motivated.
- Good time management skills.
- Have good interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.
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
Package Description
As a Bank Community Nurse, you’ll be working as part of the HCRG Care Group Team in our Bath, St. Martins Hospital District nursing service. As well as the attractive hourly rates of pay, at HCRG Care Group you will benefit from:
- £19.38 an hour
- Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
- Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
- HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
- Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
- Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
- Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
- Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
- Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
- Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
- Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
- 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
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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