Job summary
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality healthcare in the community? Were excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for the role of a Band 5 Community Nurse to join our team within Adult Community Services in Surrey.
This role covers theSurrey Heath locality, and you will be expected to travel across the area as required, therefor having a driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential
The community nursing team works 8am to 8pm, 365 days a year. Our shifts include a mixture of 8am to 4pm, 9am to 5pm and 12pm to 8pm. You would only do one late shift a week and join the rota to work one weekend in four.
This position would be suitable for a student nurse about to qualify who would like to work in the community. We offer a robust and supportive preceptorship programme for your first year, where you can develop into a confident and skilled community nurse.
Main duties of the job
Within this role, you will:
- Undertaking first line assessment, care planning and evaluation of patients care needs and takes action to address underlying causes eg nutrition assessment, biomechanical asessments.
- Manage referral to the community nursing service , assessing the priority of need appropriately and adhering to criteria to treat.
- Works with the muliti-disciplinary team to support the managing of people with long term conditions, palliative care and terminal illnesses.
- Plans, delivers and evaluates health promotion strategies and advice to empower individuals
- Utilises evidence based practice and research to inform patient care.
- To be responsible for the caseload in the absence of the District Nurse for short periods with the support of a named District Nurse.
- To participate and lead clinical audits and clincal governance agenda, implement change in clinical practice and support monitoring and evaluation.
- To implement, monitor and maintain agreed standards of care, reporting to the District Nurse in all instances where such standards cannot be met.
Please see full list of responsibilities in the JD attached
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed 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
Essential
- 1stLevel Nurse registration (live registered with NMC).
- Willingness to undertake further education around management of long term conditions.
- Evidence of continous professional development in line with revalidation.
- Keeps up to date with evidence based practice and research related to nursing and health care in the community.
- Ability to listen to and communicate with patients and their carers in a compassionate and caring manner.
- Presentation skills for teaching individuals eg patients and small groups eg students.
- Ability to work across a seven day week.
- Ability to prorities and organise workload in accordance with patient need unsupervisied.
- Ability to travel effectively and efficiently within a defined geographical area.
Other requirements:
- Occasional exposure to highly unpleasant working conditions.
- Frequent contact with body fluids.
- Current driving licence and access to a vehicle during the working day
You will feel valued as aBand 5 Community Nursewithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- AFC Band 5 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee 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 lifes 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 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
- 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
Job description
Job responsibilities
Essential
- 1stLevel Nurse registration (live registered with NMC).
- Willingness to undertake further education around management of long term conditions.
- Evidence of continous professional development in line with revalidation.
- Keeps up to date with evidence based practice and research related to nursing and health care in the community.
- Ability to listen to and communicate with patients and their carers in a compassionate and caring manner.
- Presentation skills for teaching individuals eg patients and small groups eg students.
- Ability to work across a seven day week.
- Ability to prorities and organise workload in accordance with patient need unsupervisied.
- Ability to travel effectively and efficiently within a defined geographical area.
Other requirements:
- Occasional exposure to highly unpleasant working conditions.
- Frequent contact with body fluids.
- Current driving licence and access to a vehicle during the working day
You will feel valued as aBand 5 Community Nursewithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- AFC Band 5 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee 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 lifes 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 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
- 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
Person Specification
General Requirements
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Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
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Desirable
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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.
