Staff Nurse Band 5 - Cedar Ward in Chippenham

You will feel valued as a Staff Nurse within HCRG Care Group, 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 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 through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as 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

Are you a Staff Nurse looking to work with an organisation that actively promotes the health and wellbeing and development of their staff? You may be experienced, working in the private sector, or a newly Registered Nurse. Cedar Ward is a nurse-led 17 bedded unit which specialises in rehabilitation and sub-acute care. You will be working within a diverse team, including Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurse Associates, Healthcare Assistants, Rehabilitation Support Workers, Discharge Co-ordinators, Speech & Language Therapists, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Doctors. There are numerous opportunities to develop your skills and we will provide Continuing Professional Development to keep your clinical skills up to date. Chippenham Hospitals offers a canteen and free on-site parking. Please note that we are unable to accept applications from International Nurses without a current NMC registration.

Main Responsibilities

• Plan, deliver and evaluate compassionate nursing care to meet the patients' individualised needs.
• Ensure the highest standards of care and safety are maintained.
• Responsible for the safe custody and administration of medicines, using a range of routes (once competency achieved) within the NMC Standards for Administration of Medicines and adhering to local policy.
• Promote patient involvement in care planning, implementing and sustaining communication systems to keep patients and their relatives/families informed of treatment and progress.
• To ensure effective communication is achieved and maintained of sensitive information, with regard to the patient assessments and clinical details.
• To act as a role model, ensuring high quality, professional standards are maintained and delivered at all times.
• To appropriately assess patients, ensuring early detection of the deteriorating patient and escalating to medical team as appropriate.
• Provide legible and comprehensive patient records to agreed Organisational and NMC standards and guidelines.
• Participate in the assessment of mental capacity of patients, referring for deprivation of liberties as appropriate, acting at all times in the patient’s best interest.
• Demonstrate an awareness of safeguarding concerns, escalating and reporting as necessary.
• Respond appropriately to patient and carer’s concerns, escalating to Ward Manager as required.
• To promote equality, diversion and inclusion in all aspects of care.
• To support Ward Sister’s / Ward Manager to ensure safer staffing numbers are met on each shift.
• To ensure effective resource management is maintained, demonstrating an awareness of cost improvement plans.

The Ideal Candidate

• Current/live registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Astute interpersonal skills and able to deal with difficult/sensitive situations.
• Ability to prioritise and organise own workload, delegating appropriately.
• Enhanced clinical competencies, including venepuncture and cannulation for example.
• Up to date understanding of safeguarding and mental capacity legislation.
• Recent experience in delivering hands-on nursing care for a group of patients.
• Able to demonstrate effective consolidation of nursing knowledge and practice after registration and Preceptorship.
• Working within a multi-disciplinary team environment.
• Experience within a range of patient/client care groups.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Good team member, able to complement group dynamics.
• Adaptable to changing needs of the service.
• Self-motivated, compassionate.
• Willing to work in other areas of Wiltshire Health and Care as and when required to do so.
• Teaching and assessing in practice qualification.

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.