Job summary
Keep doing the nursing work you love, with greater flexibility over when you do it. If you're an experienced Registered Nurse looking for work that can fit more easily around your life, joining our Band 5 Nurse Bank at Chippenham Community Hospital could be the right next step. You'll use your nursing skills to make an immediate difference to patients, delivering compassionate, person-centred care and working alongside healthcare colleagues to provide a positive experience throughout the patient journey. Bank working gives you the opportunity to maintain your clinical experience and continue developing professionally, while having greater choice and flexibility around your availability. Bring your experience, compassion and clinical expertise to a role where every shift has an impact. As a Bank Nurse, you'll be working as part of the HCRG Care Group Team. As well as the attractive hourly rates of pay, at HCRG Care Group you will benefit from:

Main duties of the job
As a Bank Nurse at Chippenham Community Hospital under the HCRG Care Group, you'll enjoy flexible work that suits your lifestyle while maintaining clinical experience and gaining new skills. You'll provide compassionate, person-centred care using your nursing skills and clinical expertise to positively impact patient outcomes. This temporary role offers a pay rate of £19.38 per hour with the ability to self-book shifts and balance work-life commitments. Benefits include access to real-time payment tracking through Wagestream, varied work experiences, continuous professional development, and a supportive environment focused on the highest clinical standards.

About us
HCRG Care Group, established in 2006, is one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. The organisation collaborates with health and care commissioners and communities to transform health and care services with an emphasis on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. HCRG Care Group provides a range of services from community health services for adults and children to urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and more. They are committed to equal opportunities, diversity, and inclusivity, employing a range of people who transform over half a million lives annually guided by the values of care, thoughtfulness, and action.

Job responsibilities
Package Description: Keep doing the nursing work you love, with greater flexibility over when you do it.

If you're an experienced Registered Nurse looking for work that can fit more easily around your life, joining our Band 5 Nurse Bank at Chippenham Community Hospital could be the right next step.

You'll use your nursing skills to make an immediate difference to patients, delivering compassionate, person-centred care and working alongside healthcare colleagues to provide a positive experience throughout the patient journey.

Bank working gives you the opportunity to maintain your clinical experience and continue developing professionally, while having greater choice and flexibility around your availability.

Bring your experience, compassion and clinical expertise to a role where every shift has an impact.

Package Description
As a Bank Nurse, you'll be working as part of the HCRG Care Group Team. As well as the attractive hourly rates of pay, at HCRG Care Group you will benefit from:

• £19.38 an hour
• Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
• Request a Duty Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
• HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream- which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
• Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
• Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
• Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
• Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
• Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
• Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
• Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual Ask our Executives event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
• 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

Bring your nursing skills where they can make a real difference
This is a role where you'll have the opportunity to use the breadth of your nursing skills. You'll combine hands-on patient care with clinical decision-making, autonomous working and collaboration with a wider healthcare team.

• Take an active role in assessing patients and shaping care around their individual needs.
• Deliver and review high-quality nursing care, working in partnership with patients and those important to them.
• Use your clinical judgement to recognise changing needs and escalate concerns quickly and appropriately.
• Take ownership of your day, prioritising your workload according to patient and clinical need.
• Build trusted relationships with patients and carers through compassionate, respectful communication.
• Work closely with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team to provide well-coordinated care.
• Maintain high standards of patient safety, clinical documentation and evidence-based practice.
• Bring your ideas and experience to the team, helping us learn, improve and continually strengthen the care we provide.

What We're Looking For
To be considered for this Band 5 Registered Nurse opportunity, you'll need to meet the following requirements.

Essential

• NMC Registered Nurse (1st Level).
• Nursing qualification at Diploma level or above.
• Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
• Mentorship/teaching qualification or willingness to obtain this within two years.
• Ability to independently assess patients and plan, implement and evaluate nursing care.
• Ability to recognise and appropriately escalate urgent clinical information or deterioration.
• Strong communication and multidisciplinary team-working skills.
• Ability to organise and prioritise your own workload without direct supervision.
• Knowledge of current health and social care developments and evidence-based nursing practice.
• Appropriate clinical skills and confidence using relevant community equipment.
• Ability to maintain accurate written and electronic patient records.
• Flexibility to work across a seven-day service.
• Ability to travel across the required locality, with a current driving licence and access to a car during the working day.

Desirable

• Degree-level nursing qualification.
• Existing mentorship/teaching qualification.
• Relevant community nursing experience.

Please refer to the Job Description for full details.

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.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• NMC Registered Nurse (1st Level). Nursing qualification at Diploma level or above. Evidence of relevant continuing professional development. Mentorship/teaching qualification or willingness to obtain this within two years.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name
HCRG Care Group
Address
HCRG Care Group, Chippenham, SN15 2AJ, United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Recruitment Team, HCRG Care Group, ask.hr@hcrgcaregroup.com

Details
Date posted
02 October 2026
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£19.38 an hour
Contract
Bank
Working pattern
Flexible working
Reference number
1557380863
Job locations
HCRG Care Group, Chippenham, SN15 2AJ, United Kingdom

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