Band 5 Staff Nurse Dartford

As a Band 5 Staff Nurse, you will join our valued inpatient team at Livingstone Community Hospital, delivering high-quality care in a supportive and patient-focused environment. This is a rewarding opportunity to work closely with patients throughout their recovery and rehabilitation journey, helping them regain independence and achieve the best possible outcomes. You will be part of a friendly multidisciplinary team where every member plays an important role in providing compassionate, person-centred care. Whether you are newly qualified or looking to develop your nursing career within a community hospital setting, you will be supported to build your skills, expand your clinical knowledge and make a meaningful difference to patients and their families every day.

You will be joining a welcoming and supportive ward team who are passionate about delivering excellent patient care. The team works collaboratively to create a positive environment for both patients and colleagues, encouraging learning, development and the sharing of best practice.

As part of HCRG Care Group, you will receive:

• NHS Agenda for Change Band 5 salary with an NHS pension
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you discounts on everyday purchases, plus cashback and voucher offers for treats and essentials
• Access to your wages as you earn them, helping cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high-interest borrowing
• Online and in-person wellbeing support, including mental health services, activity challenges, financial wellbeing tools, coaching and counselling
• Access to e-learning, bespoke career pathways and professional development opportunities through our Outstanding Learning Enterprise team
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to contribute ideas, backed by ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation where the majority of our rated services hold Good or Outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

As a Staff Nurse, you will provide safe, effective and compassionate care to patients, ensuring their physical, emotional and wellbeing needs are met throughout their stay. You will work closely with patients, families and carers to deliver personalised care that supports recovery, rehabilitation and independence. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. You will maintain high professional standards, promote evidence-based practice and ensure patients receive the highest quality care possible.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering high-quality patient-centred nursing care
• Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care programmes
• Supporting patients throughout their rehabilitation and recovery journey
• Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues, patients and carers
• Maintaining accurate and contemporaneous clinical records
• Administering medication and treatments in accordance with professional standards
• Promoting patient safety, dignity and wellbeing at all times
• Contributing to service improvements and quality initiatives
• Supporting students, newly qualified staff and colleagues where appropriate

Essential:

• Registered Nurse with a valid NMC registration
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• A compassionate and patient-focused approach
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
• Commitment to delivering high-quality, evidence-based care
• Good IT skills and confidence using clinical systems

Desirable:

• Previous experience within a ward, community hospital, rehabilitation or intermediate care setting
• Experience supporting patients with complex health needs
• Mentorship or practice assessor qualification
• Commitment to ongoing professional development

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. 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.

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.