Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic and passionate Nurse looking to join an organisation that is dedicated to clinical excellence whilst ensuring our staff members feel valued each and every day?
We are looking for Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists to join and expand our recently transformed Rapid response team. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in creating an efficient service focusing on admission avoidance and supporting early discharge in line with the NHS 10 year plan.
The service consists of a team of approx. 33 staff in total whom work in close collaboration with the intermediate care teams and community nursing teams. The service operates 7 days a week, including bank holidays, 8am until 8pm with various shift patterns available. We have a robust induction programme that includes relevant training and protected consolidation time, which successful candidates would undertake in their first 6 weeks in role. Following induction our supervision and appraisal process will support applicants with further accredited development.
Main duties of the job
As a Nurse within
HCRG Care Group Swale rapid response team youll join a team who have recently
been through transformation to create a fully multidisciplinary 2hr response
service. Through the pandemic we have continued to provide a high level of
service and have utilised innovative tools to enable mobile working and virtual
assessments where appropriate.
Your days will be
fast paced and varied and include offering support to patients and families
whom are in crisis or acutely unwell, in order to prevent a hospital admission.
Also supporting early hospital discharges by offering clinical assessment and
treatment within their own home as opposed to a lengthy acute hospital stay.
Advanced clinical assessments skills will be greatly utilised within this rapid
response role.
About us
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.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Rapid Response Nurse, youll be part of our valued team at Sheppey Community Hospital.
You will feel valued as a Raid Response Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- 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 lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- 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 youre 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
- 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
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- 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
You will have a degree qualification and registration with relevant body (NMC) for this role. HCRG Care Group have expansive training opportunities including apprenticeships available for staff development. The team also have a robust in-service training schedule, where staff enjoy sharing their knowledge and skills with others, outside agencies also attend to upskill our workforce as part of our continuing professional development.
You will have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Rapid Response Nurse, youll be part of our valued team at Sheppey Community Hospital.
You will feel valued as a Raid Response Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- 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 lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- 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 youre 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
- 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
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- 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
You will have a degree qualification and registration with relevant body (NMC) for this role. HCRG Care Group have expansive training opportunities including apprenticeships available for staff development. The team also have a robust in-service training schedule, where staff enjoy sharing their knowledge and skills with others, outside agencies also attend to upskill our workforce as part of our continuing professional development.
You will have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes.
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.
Person Specification
General Requirements
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Person Specification
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
