Vacancies

Band 6 Staff Nurse/Therapist- Recruitment Open Day

Main Responsibility

As a Band 6 Staff Nurse or Therapist you will:

• Undertake patient care needs assessment to identify on-going support required for a safe acute hospital discharge
• Visit patients in their homes to undertake face to face assessments of patient needs.
• Source appropriate care provision in the correct setting to meet these needs.
• Ensure sourced care provision is Implemented from the point of hospital discharge.
• Communicate effectively with patients, carers and all partner organisations
• Maintain accurate patient records in line with professional and organisational requirements
• Implement and work to ensure evidence-based care/best practice.
• Initiate health promotion activities with individuals, patients, and carers.
• Provide in-reach assistance to the acute hospitals by providing expertise in community services to improve discharge and flow for pathways 1, 2 and 3.
• Undertake mentorship training, facilitate the teaching and learning experiences for all students and colleagues.
• Be responsible for liaising with external agencies to expedite Transfer of Care Packages and Nursing Home/ residential Home placements.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will have / be:

• Registered Nurse (RN) or registered Therapists (OT / Physio) with current live PIN on NMC register or HCPC register

On the day we will have recruitment advisors hiring managers, and colleagues from each banding range. You will be able to discuss with colleagues how they have progressed through the bands and how we have been able to support with professional development. As we will have recruitment advisors available on the day we can talk you through interviewing techniques and support you with the writing of your CV and how to best display your skillset. If you have your CV please bring this long, we can even offer interviews on the day with our hiring managers!

Package Description

We are holding a Recruitment Open Day in Kent on Wednesday 11^th September 2024; this is a great opportunity for you to come and see all the great work the services at HCRG Care Group in Kent provide. You will be able to discuss opportunities with the management team get an understanding for the type of work we do and how you could be an integral part of this.

As a Band 6 Staff Nurse/Therapist you will receive Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and an NHS pension as well as having access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• 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 100% 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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