Job Introduction
Tuesday 29th November
10am – 3pm
Garstang Golf Club, Preston PR3 1YE
We are hosting an open day for qualified and soon to qualify nurses where you can drop in any time between 10am and 3pm, meet the team and understand more about why joining HCRG Care Group is the right move in your career.
Interviews will be completed on the day so bring along your CV and identification documents if you would like to take part.
Click ‘apply’ for the recruitment team to contact you directly with more details or email apply@hcrgcaregroup.com with any questions you may have.
Main Responsibility
We currently have part-time opportunities in our South Ribble team where you will either work as part of the 0-19 years School Nursing Specialist Support team under the direction of the School Nurse and Specialist Safeguarding Team Leader, or work alongside our experienced Health Visitors, providing specialist support to local families in their homes.
Working within Lancashire Child and Family Wellbeing Services offers a unique environment, with clear visibility of senior management. You will feel listened to and be given the platforms to have your voice and ideas heard.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- As appropriate, host virtual groups and sessions on public health topics to support families and young people
- Deliver the healthy child programme at four levels as delegated by the Specialist Community Public Health Practitioner (SCPHN)
- Ability to recognise health needs for individual clients and situations in relation to the health of children, young people, individuals and families, sometimes in complex situations, identifying situations where referral for support from SCPHN is necessary
- Prepare for, attend and participate in relevant inter-agency meetings
- Support the SCPHN in providing specialist targeted support to meet the needs of children identified as at risk or with complex needs
The Ideal Candidate
You will be a registered nurse with NMC registration and a passion for improving the lives of children and families within the local community. Experience and an understanding of health promotion / public health activities is desirable, along with the ability to act independently, as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
As this is a community role, you will also have a valid UK driving licence, with access to a car for work purposes. Although we can make certain accommodations if you do not yet have a driving licence or are unable to hold one.
Package Description
As a Band 5 Staff Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team in South Ribble.
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 5 salary banding with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- 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 most of our 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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