Band 5 Community Nurse

Job Introduction

We’re excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for the role of a Band 5 Community Nurse to join our team within Adult Community Services in Wiltshire.

Base: Melksham Community Hospital

37.5 Hours per week

Are you passionate about delivering high quality healthcare in the community?

Melksham and Bradford on Avon Neighbourhood Team is looking for a Community Nurse to join our supportive and caring team at Melksham Hospital.

You will be expected to travel across the area as required, therefore having a driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.

The community nursing team works form 8am to 10pm, 365 days a year.

Our shift pattern includes: 7AM - 3 PM, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM, and 2 PM - 10 PM

You would only do a maximum of one late shift a week and join the rota to work one weekend in four.

What We Offer:

A fast-paced, rewarding role with a strong sense of purpose

The chance to work alongside a multidisciplinary team—Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Care Co-ordinators, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and more

What We’re Looking For:

Front line NHS community care experience

Up-to-date clinical professional development

Excellent clinical and communication skills

The ability to work under pressure while maintaining high-quality care

A motivated, flexible, and hardworking individual ready for a new challenge

The role is demanding, but the impact you’ll make is immeasurable! If you’re eager to be part of a busy, compassionate team caring for patients registered with South Wiltshire GPs, we’d love to hear from you.

Katharine tucker– Team Manager

Main Responsibility

As a Community Nurse you will care for patients and their families in the way that you believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work to help us continue to change things for the better. We feel passionate that everyone should feel valued when they come into contact with our organisation, whether that's you, someone we care for or the wider community we operate in.

You will put to use your strong communication and organisation skills, along with a flexible approach, to ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.

You’ll care for patients and their families in the way that you believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work to help us continue to change things for the better. We feel passionate that everyone should feel valued when they come into contact with our organisation, whether that's you, someone we care for or the wider community we operate in.

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. It is expected that you should have strong communication and organisation skills and a flexible approach which will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey. 

You will have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes with Business insurance for the vehicle used.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

Package Description

As a Band 5 Community Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team at Melksham and Bradford on Avon Community Team.

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

• AFC Band 5 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
• Plentiful on site-parking
• 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 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 a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
  
  

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.

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