Community Nurse - Band 5

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Job IntroductionWe have full time or part time opportunities as a Band 5 Community Nurse,where we offer a £1000 welcome bonus. You will also be offered a flexible role were you have the ability to work your own diary in order to provide continuity of care.The hours are between 8am and 5pm on a 7 day working rota, working 1 in every 4 weekends. Your base will be The Hollies in Midsomer Norton.Your focus is to offer advice and support to housebound service users in their own homes in order to promote their well-being and independence.Main Responsibility“When I joined the community I assumed the majority of my workload would be wound care but it’s quite the opposite, my skills have widened massively and my confidence has grown. I love the variety each day brings and being able to see the positive changes I can make to our service users.”Within this role, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Responsible for contributing to the holistic assessment, planning delivery and evaluation of care to patients within their own homes.
• To develop and implement programmes of care
• Advise and recommend treatment by liaising with GP’s and other specialists within the multidisciplinary team
• To take charge in the absence of senior grade staff
• Administration of medication – s/c, im, pr, IV, transdermal, oral, controlled drugs, along with palliative car, wound care and IV therapy.

The Ideal CandidateYou will be an NMC registered Nurse or a newly qualified nurse, as we provide a supportive preceptorship programme to allow you to develop your skills in your new career. You will be looking for a role that is rewarding and varied and where you get to develop lasting relationships with service users.You will also have strong communication and organisation skills and a flexible approach, along with access to a car for work purposes.For more information on this role or for the job description, please contact Susan.Peyton@hcrgcaregroup.comPackage DescriptionYou will feel valued as a Band 5 Community Nursewith HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 5 AfC salary and 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 ringfenced innovation funding each year

About The CompanyWe 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.Attached documents