Job summary
As a Community Nurse Band 5, you'll be part of our valued team at Beacon House, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 5 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

Main duties of the job
As a Community Nurse Band 5, you'll be part of our valued team at Beacon House, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including a Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions. You'll have access to My Reward Hub for discounts on everyday purchases, and earn access to wages as required. Our support includes wellbeing resources, access to eLearning, and bespoke career development opportunities. You will work with the multi-professional team providing clinical support in assessing, planning, organising, and delivering clinical care in line with service and patient needs, as agreed with supervising clinicians. The Community Nurse works independently within the sphere of nursing care and all aspects of the nursing process. You will act professionally, using knowledge and experience to make evidence-based decisions. Responsibilities include supervising less experienced or qualified staff and students during placements, contributing to quality assurance processes, and service development.

About us
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. We work 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 values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, providing facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions to be inclusive of everyone.

Job responsibilities
Package Description:
As a Community Nurse Band 5, you'll be part of our valued team at Beacon House, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 5 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
Are you a compassionate and motivated Registered Nurse looking to make a real difference in the community? We are looking for a dedicated Band 5 Community Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team.

The Integrated Neighbourhood team is a community-based service which supports and works with people, either in their own home or in Residential or Nursing Homes.

The role of the community nurse is to work with the multi professional team within community service providing clinical support in assessing, planning, organising, and delivering clinical care in line with service and patient needs, as agreed with supervising clinicians.

The community nurse works independently, working within the sphere of nursing care and within all aspects of the nursing process.

The post holder will act professionally at all times and use their knowledge and experience to make evidence-based decisions to solve challenges and problems. They recognise and work within the limits of their competencies and are responsible and accountable for their actions. The post holder will have responsibility for supervising less experienced or qualified staff and students during their placements. They will be expected to actively contribute to quality assurance processes and service development.

Location: Malmesbury Primary Care Centre, SN16 0FB

Please note that this is a fixed-term position for 1 year.

For any enquiries regarding this role, please contact Kristy.Andrews@hcrgcaregroup.com

Main Responsibilities

• Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice.
• Working as a member of a skill mixed team, responsible for interacting constructively with team members and organising, prioritising, and planning their work.
• Uses a range of assessment tools pertinent to the patients' needs, to inform the assessment and assess risk for both patients and staff.
• Demonstrates an ability to prioritise and manage their own workload and recognise where elements of care can safely be delegated to other colleagues, carers, and family members.
• Facilitates the provision of care for people, including those with complex needs.
• To keep the patient at the centre of their care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
• Provide sensitive, compassionate, safe, and effective care to support people in a range of care settings, applying the principles and processes for making reasonable adjustments.
• Implement all elements of the nursing process including the on-going assessment, planning, management, and evaluation of care.
• Manage own caseload within scope of practice. Undertake clinical tasks including observations, catheterisation, venepuncture and ECGs. This is not an exhaustive list; additional competency-based skills relevant to clinical area can be attained.

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate
Essential:

• Nursing Registration (NMC).
• Nursing degree qualification.
• Previous experience of working in a healthcare setting as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Able to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of the workload and individual patient contact.
• Proficient in using a variety of IT systems for example SystmOne, word, excel.
• Able to competently and safely administer medication according to organisation policy. Able to support, supervise, assess, and act as a role model.
• Passionate about delivering safe patient focused care.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as a team member.
• Good time management skills.
• Valid UK driving license with access to a vehicle for work purposes.
• Shows commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.
• Good time management skills.
• Have good interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.

Desirable:

• Evidence Of involvement in support / development of less experienced staff.
• Demonstrates knowledge of clinical audit and improvement methodology.
• Experience of working in the community.

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

• Essential qualifications include Nursing Registration (NMC), a Nursing degree qualification, and previous experience of working in a healthcare setting as part of the multi-disciplinary team. Candidates should be able to deal with the non-routine and unpredictable nature of the workload and individual patient contact, be proficient in using a variety of IT systems such as SystmOne, word, and excel. They must be able to competently and safely administer medication according to organisation policy and be able to support, supervise, assess, and act as a role model. A valid UK driving license with access to a vehicle for work purposes is necessary.

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, Malmesbury Primary Care Centre, SN16 0FB, 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

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.