Job Introduction
Are you an experienced Community Nurse looking for the next step in your leadership career?
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Team Sister/Charge Nurse to join our Community Nursing team in Sittingbourne.
This is an exciting opportunity to combine hands-on clinical care with leadership responsibilities, supporting patients with a wide range of complex health needs in their own homes. You'll play a key role in helping people manage long-term conditions, avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and receive high-quality care within the community.
As a senior member of the team, you'll manage a defined caseload while supporting the day-to-day coordination of care delivery. You'll provide clinical leadership, support colleagues with decision-making, contribute to triage and caseload management, and help ensure the service delivers safe, effective and patient-centred care.
You'll also work closely with GPs, social care teams, specialist services and other healthcare professionals to ensure patients receive seamless care that is tailored to their individual needs.
This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week), and the service operates between 8am and 8pm, 7 days a week, including weekends and bank holidays.
A full UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes are essential.
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Band 6 Team Sister/Charge Nurse with HCRG Care Group, based at Kent Science Park in Sittingbourne, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £35,392 - £42,618 Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- 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, 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
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
Main Responsibilities
As a Band 6 Team Sister/Charge Nurse, you will:
- Manage a defined caseload of patients with complex nursing and health needs within the community
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised care plans to support positive patient outcomes
- Support patients with long-term conditions, palliative and end-of-life care, wound management and other community nursing interventions
- Participate in the triage of referrals and support effective allocation of visits according to clinical need
- Provide clinical leadership and act as a role model for high standards of patient care
- Support the Senior Sister with the day-to-day operational running of the service
- Lead, supervise and support junior colleagues and students to develop their knowledge, skills and confidence
- Participate in staff development, supervision, appraisals and competency assessment
- Work collaboratively with GPs, social care teams, specialist nurses and wider multidisciplinary colleagues
- Promote patient safety through effective risk assessment, safeguarding practice and clinical decision-making
- Contribute to quality improvement, service development, audit and clinical governance activities
- Maintain accurate and timely patient records using electronic systems
- Support the delivery of evidence-based practice and high-quality care across the team
- Participate in the service's 7-day working arrangements, including weekends and bank holidays
The Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will be an experienced and compassionate Registered Nurse who is passionate about delivering high-quality community care and supporting the development of others.
You will have:
- Current NMC registration
- A Teaching and Assessing qualification or equivalent
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- A minimum of 3 years' experience as a registered nurse
- Experience within both community and acute or hospital-based settings
- Experience supporting patients with long-term conditions and complex healthcare needs
- Experience supervising, supporting or leading colleagues
- Excellent clinical assessment and care-planning skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- The ability to prioritise and manage a changing workload effectively
- Good understanding of safeguarding, risk management and clinical governance
- Strong IT skills, including electronic patient record systems
- The ability to work autonomously and make sound clinical decisions
- A commitment to delivering high-quality, person-centred care
Ideally, you'll also have experience in staff appraisals, clinical supervision, service improvement activities or leadership responsibilities within a community healthcare setting.
As this role involves travel throughout the community, a full UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes are required.
About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, HCRG Care Group is one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. We work with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad and diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed employer and work to provide facilities, workplace adjustments and support to ensure everyone can thrive.
If you're passionate about community nursing, leadership and delivering exceptional patient care, we'd love to hear from you.
