Job Introduction
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality healthcare in the community? We’re excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for the role of an experienced Band 6 Community Nurse—or a developmental role for an experienced Band 5 District Nurse or Community Nurse—to join our team within Adult Community Services in Surrey.
As a Community Nurse, you'll play a pivotal role in the delivery of care within our Integrated Care Teams (ICT's) across Surrey Heath, working alongside multiple internal and external services.
Your expertise and compassion will make a significant difference in improving the health outcomes and quality of life for individuals under your care.
This role covers the Surrey Heath locality, and you will be expected to travel across the area as required, therefor having a driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
The community nursing team works 8am to 8pm, 365 days a year. Our shifts include a mixture of 8am to 4pm, 9am to 5pm and 12pm to 8pm. You would only do one late shift a week and join the rota to work one weekend in four.
Main Responsibility
Within this role you will:
- Responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care to meet the needs of clients and carers in a variety of primary care settings including patients’ homes, residential homes and GP surgeries
- Responsible for chronic disease management for the housebound making autonomous clinical decisions and undertaking health promotion activity with the patients and their carers and families.
- Manage admissions and discharges to the case load assessing and advising patients and relatives, GP’s.
- Accountable for delivering skilled nursing care in accordance with national and local priorities and the NMC Code of Professional Practice
- Responsible for monitoring of any ongoing planned interventions and initiate changes as required.
- Responsible for the monitoring of medication regimes, assessing effects and advising patients on the safe storage and disposal of drugs.
- Responsible for the correct use of aids and equipment supplied for patients and carers
- Manage patients who are terminally ill and die at home, ensuring that patients needs, and those of their families are met, this will include active management of complex pain and symptom control in liaison with the wider multi disciplinary team (MDT).
- Undertakes direct supervision of staff
- Participates in the orientation and induction of all new staff
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The Ideal Candidate
You will be a NMC/1st level registered Nurse preferably some community experience. You will have the ability to work both independently and also as part of a wider multidisciplinary team. It is expected that you should have strong communication and organisation skills and a flexible approach which will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey. You will have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages.
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Package Description
You will feel valued as a Band 6 Community Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- AFC Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- 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 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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