Community Nurse (Band 5) - Melksham

Package Description

• Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub
• 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
• Post trauma support
• Legal help
• Debt and life management help
• Career coaching
• Counselling
• Access to eLearning
• Bespoke career pathways
• Opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team
• The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture
• Changing lives through transforming health and care
• Ringfenced innovation funding each year of at least £100,000
• Pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards
• Majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction

As a Community Nurse Band 5, you will deliver high-quality, person-centred nursing care to patients in their own homes, working in line with national and local policies, professional standards, and the NMC Code. You will work closely with patients, families, GPs, and multidisciplinary colleagues to assess needs, plan and deliver care, promote independence, and support positive health outcomes. This rewarding role offers the opportunity to work autonomously while being part of a supportive community team committed to delivering safe, effective, and evidence-based care. You will contribute to service development, health promotion, continuous improvement initiatives, and the education of students and colleagues, ensuring the highest standards of care are maintained across the service.

Main Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, deliver, and evaluate nursing care in partnership with patients, carers, and the multidisciplinary team.
• Monitor patient progress, recognising and escalating changes in condition appropriately.
• Prioritise and manage a caseload in line with patient need.
• Maintain accurate and timely patient records using electronic and paper-based systems.
• Deliver evidence-based care and contribute to quality improvement initiatives and clinical audits.
• Promote health, wellbeing, and independence for patients and carers.
• Participate in team meetings, handovers, clinical supervision, appraisals, and mandatory training.
• Support the learning and development of students and colleagues.
• Contribute to maintaining a safe environment through risk assessment, incident reporting, and adherence to infection prevention and control standards.
• Ensure the safe use, maintenance, and management of clinical equipment and stock.

The Ideal Candidate

• You will be a NMC/1st level registered Nurse.
• You will have the ability to work both independently and also as part of a wider multidisciplinary team.
• You should have strong communication and organisation skills and a flexible approach.
• Full UK driving licence with access to a car for work purposes with Business insurance for the vehicle used.
• Confidence using IT systems and demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel).

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. We are a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

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.

Location: Melksham Community Hospital, Spa Road, Melksham, Wiltshire, SN12 7NZ

Hours: 37.5 hours per week