Job Introduction
We are looking for a Band 5 Community Nurse to join us in an exciting, blended role working at our Care Coordination Centre (CCC) performing remote triage.
This role will have a 50/50 split across Care Coordination and Community Nursing encompassing the delivery of care in people's homes and playing a key role in triage duties. You’ll be joining colleagues who are compassionate and committed to the people in the local community, who go above and beyond to ensure they receive the best quality care whilst also minimising hospital admissions through remote triaging.
For the triaging aspects of the role you will be based at the CCC in Peasedown St John. For the community nursing duties of this role, you will cover a specific locality within the Bath and North East Somerset area.
You will join innovative and forward-thinking multi-disciplinary teams, receiving full training and support to establish you as a Band 5 community and triage nurse able to work in line with national and local policies.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a Band 5 registered nurse looking to develop further skills or a newly qualified nurse looking to make a difference in their work!
Main Responsibility
As a Community Nurse/ Triage Clinician you will:
- Make detailed assessments over the phone
- Undertake venepuncture
- Undertake Male/female/supra-public catheterisations.
- Use multiple healthcare systems to clinically triage a range of patients and access patient care records.
- Identify care pathways and onward referrals
- Undertake administration of medication – s/c, im, pr, IV, transdermal, oral, controlled drugs
- Pressure ulcer prevention
- Continence assessments including use of equipment
- Undertake Doppler assessment, multi-layer compression bandaging.
- Understand the needs of patients and translating this into triage templates
For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached Job descriptions.
The Ideal Candidate
Our Ideal candidate will:
- Be a registered nurse with NMC registration
- Have knowledge of a community environment
- Ability to work with multiple healthcare systems
- Able to type whilst talking to a patient on the phone
- Have an awareness of self-neglect, safeguarding and abusive situations
- Have a valid driving license and access to a vehicle.
Package Description
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £27,055 - £32,934 (Band 5 AfC salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Competitive terms & conditions for support roles
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
- 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
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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