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Registered Nurse Band 6 - Savernake

Job Introduction

Package Description

As a Registered Nurse Band 6, you’ll be part of our valued team at Savernake Community Hospital, working on Savernake Ward.

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

• AFC Band 6 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
• Plentiful on site-parking
• 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 a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

Job Introduction

Are you a compassionate and dedicated Registered Nurse band 6 looking to make a genuine difference in a supportive and friendly setting?

The Unit Provides Sub Acute Care, Rehabilitation and End of Life care for the residents of Wiltshire. This is an innovative unit with an integrated multi-disciplinary team.

Clinical leadership is provided by a team of Consultant Nurses across the organisation, supporting the Clinical team of Doctors, ACPs, Therapists, Nurses, Support workers and Health Care Assistants, ensuring individual holistic care for the people we care for as well as support for their carers and families.

Ward Leadership is provided by the Ward Manager who has a strong belief in Compassionate Leadership. Supporting and Nurturing Staff to reach their full potential.

We provide the training, support and professional development you need to become a confident, competent Registered Nurse, delivering high standards of care within a Unit that you can be proud of.

Savernake Ward provides 24 hour care, 7 days a week to our patients so the ideal candidate will be able to work a variety of shifts.

We are open to conversations around flexible working patterns if this is required.

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 Ward Manager James Outhwaite email: james.outhwaite@hcrgcaregroup.com

We are happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Main Responsibilities

Registered Nurse, Assessing, planning, Implementing and Evaluating Nursing Care. Supervising and supporting, Nursing Associates, Junior staff, and students.

You will put to use your strong communication and organisation skills, along with a flexible approach, to ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.

You’ll care for patients and their families in the way that you believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work to help us continue to change things for the better. We feel passionate that everyone should feel valued when they come into contact with our organisation, whether that's you, someone we care for or the wider community we operate in.

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description. 

The Ideal Candidate

Essential 

• RN (Adult) registered with NMC
• Specialist Practitioner Qualification (DN)
• Have any of the following modules and be able to work towards SPQ
• Current issues in community nursing
• Leadership and innovation
• Research in health and social care
• V100/V300
• Any of the relevant optional modules (PACR, EOL, Long term conditions, older persons and dementia
• Community specialist practice
• Systematic approach to assessment, planning and evaluation of needs led care.
• Able to carry out activities of a fully functional community nurse including end of life care, competent in the use of Mckinley syringe drivers, the administration of medications to support people in the last stages of life, catheter management skills including male and supra pubic catheter management ,wound care management and administration of iv antibiotics .
• Able to work autonomously.
• Previous community nurse experience and lone working advantageous.
• Use of an electronic patient record system (SystmOne)
• Experience in supporting junior staff and students through supervision and opportunity to achieve learning outcomes
• Systematic approach to assessment, planning and evaluation of needs led care.
• Able to carry out activities of a fully functional community nurse including end of life care, competent in the use of Mckinley syringe drivers, the administration of medications to support people in the last stages of life, catheter management skills including male and supra pubic catheter management ,wound care management and administration of iv antibiotics .
• Able to work autonomously.
• Previous community nurse experience and lone working advantageous.
• Use of an electronic patient record system (SystmOne)
• Experience in supporting junior staff and students through supervision and opportunity to achieve learning outcomes

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.

Other requirements: 

• Willing to work in other areas of the Trust or Trust-wide as and when required to do so.
• Be able to drive and have access to a vehicle or other equivalent mobility.
• To fulfil the needs of service delivery to patients/service users and in line with current working, to be available seven days a week, to work within a flexible rota for day sand evenings nights which includes weekends and Bank Holidays
• Car Driver essential

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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