Community Nurse - Band 5

Job Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity for a band 5 Community Nurse to join our Bath North District Nursing service which is based at our Riverside Health Centre location. We are also offering £1000 welcome bonus to successful applicants.

You will join a friendly team who are very outgoing and sociable, which makes being just a few minutes’ walk form the centre of Bath a great combination. The team are also flexible and family friendly where everyones individualised cases are considered to help manage work-life balance where possible. You will also receive a parking permit to enable you to visit patients in Bath.

We have both full time and part time vacancies. Service hours typically being 8.30am - 5pm Monday to Friday, weekends are also required to be covered, staff are currently working one in every 5 weekends.

We offer an individually tailored induction programme to suit your needs and interests and to help you develop your skills to be the best you can be. As well as preceptorships for newly qualified nurses, we have an internal learning and development team to allow you to progress quickly in your career and learn more about your specific areas of interest.

There is regular supervision and the opportunity for more junior members of staff to learn and develop by coming out into the field with our more experienced community nurses.

Whether you are a newly qualified, due to qualify, or an experienced Band 5 Nurse already, we would love to hear from you.

Main Responsibilities

As a Band 5 Community Nurse for the Bath North team, you will visit patients living in the North of Bath and outlying villages.

To complete the duties of the role a Driver’s license and access to a car is necessary.

As a Community Nurse you will:

• Be responsible for contributing to the holistic assessment, planning delivery and evaluation of care to patients within their own homes.
• Implement, monitor and maintain high standards of care delivery at all times.
• Care for patients and their families in the way that you believe is best
• Deliver our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work.

The Ideal Candidate

You will:

• Be an NMC/1st level registered Nurse
• Have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes.
• Can work both independently and as part of a wider multidisciplinary team.
• Have strong communication and organisation skills and a flexible
• Deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.

For more information or to discuss the role in more detail please contact Renata Galkowski at Renata.Galkowski@hcrgcaregroup.com

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.

Package Description

Whether you are newly qualified, due to qualify or an experienced Band 5, we would love to hear from you.

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

• £27,055 - £32,934 and Agenda for Change terms and conditions –including an NHS pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day 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 ring fenced 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