Community Nurse – Band 5, HCRG Care Group

To deliver care in accordance with national and local priorities, Trust Policies, procedures, and guidelines by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Main Responsibility

• Participate in ongoing re-assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs of care as agreed with the patient/carer and the nurse in charge.
• Be responsible for the caseload in the absence of the District Nurse for short periods, with the support of a named District Nurse.
• Participatein clinical audits, implement changes in clinical practice, and participate in the monitoring and evaluation process.
• Implement, monitor, and maintain agreed standards of care, reporting to the District Nurse in all instances where such standards cannot be met.
• Helped facilitate and participate in clinical supervision, sustaining and developing clinical practice for self and team members by trust policy.
• Maintainknowledge of health care developments, clinical evidence, National Service Frameworks for practice, and National and Local priorities.
• Take partin the implementation of evidence-based care within a variety of settings.
• When necessary,compiling, maintaining, and reviewing caseload profiles from which health needs can be identified.
• To participate in Public Health activities – including health promotion with individuals and group
• Adhere to the District Nursing referral criteria.
• To provide data to reflect workload pressures and prioritize the appropriate caseload.
• Ensuring that accurate and legible patient records are maintained and deadlines for entering data are met.

The Ideal Candidate

• Demonstrates ongoing professional development.
• Willingness to undertake further education around the management of long-term conditions, including post-graduate education programs such as physical assessment, nurse prescribing, and case management
• Team worker and ability to work alone
• Must be able to relate to clients and colleagues in a sensitive manner
• Identify and pass on urgent client information to senior colleagues.
• You must be able to operate community equipment, i.e., hoists.
• Assess client needs and implement care.
• You will need to be able to work across a seven-day week.
• Ability to carry out delegated skills
• Be able to organize your workload – not directly supervised.
• Successful candidates must be able toinput data manually and electronically according to Trust policies.
• Works within agreed Policies and Procedures.
• Ability to travel effectively and efficiently about the Trust/Area
• Dexterity to enable clinical skills to be performed
• Educated to Diploma/Degree level
• Knowledge of recent developments within the NHS
• Post-registration experience within a community hospital/community environment
• Area of specialist interest in Long-term conditions
• Presentation skills for teaching
• Current driving license and use of own vehicle during the working day.

Package Description

You will feel valued as a Band 5 Nurse with HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £28,407– £34,581Band 5 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
• Plentiful onsite parking
• Membership of My Reward Hub gives 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 to post-trauma support, legal, debt, and life management help, as well as career coaching and counseling
• 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 that 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 organization 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

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, think, and do.

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