Vacancies

Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Midlands Recruitment Open Day

Main Responsibility

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Ensuring colleagues who work in the service, in and out of hours develop sound clinical skills suitable for their level of experience and job role
• Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by ensuring colleagues use up-to-date skills and adhere to evidence-based policies and procedures.
• Facilitating learning in both formal and informal settings in order to support the on-going development of staff in clinical practice 
• Act as a role model and champion for the community nursing services at all times
• Support the triage & prioritisation of referrals with an expert focus on the urgent community response work stream
• Identify and lead on opportunities to improve care and quality via research in order to demonstrate safe, effective and responsive service delivery

The Ideal Candidate

You will be a registered nurse with NMC registration and have experience in a senior community nursing role, with the knowledge of how to support complex patients with a range of long term conditions and of those who are in palliative care. 

Strong leadership skills are also essential, along with ability to make changes to planned activity, sometimes immediately. As this is a community role, you will have access to car for work purposes. 

Package Description

We are holding a Recruitment Open Day for our West Midlands Services at our Attwood Green Health Centre on Thursday 26th January this is a great opportunity for you to come and see all the great work the services at HCRG Care Group in Reading provide. You will be able to discuss opportunities with the management team to get an understanding of the type of work we do and how you could be an integral part of this. 

As a Nurse Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group's West Midland Services. 

Based at one of the following services: 

Summerfield Urgent Care Centre, Washwood Heath Urgent Treatment Centre, and Warren Farm Urgent Treatment Centre.

You will feel valued as a Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• Band 7 Salary  - 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 well-being – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as 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 the 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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