Job Introduction
Package Description
As a Registered Nurse Band 6 you will be part of our valued team in our Warminster Community Hospital, working on Longleat Ward, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- 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 the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Job Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity for a Registered Band 6 Nurse to join our team on Longleat ward in Warminster as a band 6 charge nurse/sister. The service is currently undergoing an exciting period of transformation, making this an excellent time to become part of a dynamic and innovative team. As a registered Nurse, you will be part of the Clinical Team, working within a multi-disciplinary team, to facilitate, plan and implement patient care and safe discharge. We support both step-up and step-down patients with a primary focus on rehabilitation and safe discharge. You will be working as a Nurse, on a nurse led unit, joining innovative and forward-thinking colleagues who are compassionate and committed to the people in the local community who use our services and go above and beyond to ensure they receive the best quality care.
Does this sound like something that would interest you? If you are interested, please come for an informal visit to meet our team. To arrange this or for further information please contact: Victoria Jamieson 01985 224707 or victoria.jamieson@hcrgcaregroup.com
Recruitment Advisor: Louise Ledward on 07884 659608 or louise.ledward@hcrgcaregroup.com
We are happy to answer any questions that you may have.
Main Responsibilities
As a Registered Band 6 Nurse on Longleat ward, you will independently and collaboratively assess, diagnose nursing problems, and plan care, manage acutely unwell patients with complex needs, decide when escalation to acute services is required, triage referrals and prioritise work, working closely with your medical colleagues but also being able to work without immediate on-site senior support OOH. You will demonstrate responsibility and accountability in your senior nursing role and assist with the coordination of care throughout the patient journey.
You will play a key role in supporting junior colleagues, new starters, newly qualified nurses and health care support workers, ensuring they receive a competent induction and have access to all the relevant training and information required to carry out their job. Assisting in assessing and supervising of students, supporting staff to complete care certificates, and also act as a preceptor for our newly qualified nurses. You will have good clinical skills and knowledge and be able to use this to carry out clinical supervision and training. You will be expected to support the nursing team to ensure high standards of care and documentation at all times, acting as a role model at all times.
Ideal Candidate
Essential
• Registered nurse
• Advanced clinical assessment skills
• IV therapy competency
• Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Experienced in the use of NEWS2 diagnostic tool and when to escalate
• Contribute to the development of others, supervising and teaching, mentoring, including student Nurses
• Previous experience in elderly care, frailty, community services or relevent acute care speciality
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and interpersonal skills • Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
• Good IT skills
• Work within the NMC code of conduct.
• Knowledge of community environment
• Good Communication skills including IT literacy and knowledge of computer systems.
• Undertake evidence based clinical practice.
• Experience of caring for people with long term conditions
• Experience of pressure ulcer prevention
• Awareness of self-neglect, safeguarding and abusive situations to be the patients advocate.
• Ability to be an effective team member. Awareness of team dynamics.
• Work within the boundaries of legislation, policies, procedures, and standards.
Desirable
- Evidence of leadership
- Relevant experience
- Life experiences that have enhanced professional development.
- Experience in leading practice developments
- Experience in caseload management
- Awareness of current changes in the NHS.
- Up to date professional knowledge in their current area of practice.
- Ability to make decisions and judgments within a community setting.
- Communication skills, which facilitate effective interaction with people from a wide range of social, economic, cultural and ethnic/racial backgrounds
- To be able to communicate with a wide range of colleagues in different disciplines and agencies.
- The ability to respond to the demands of working in a complex and diverse environment.
- Approachable, personable, emotional intelligence & flexible
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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