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Job summary
Clinical Nurse Specialist Intravenous Therapy Lead (Band 7) Are you an experienced and passionate nurse with expertise in intravenous therapy, looking for an opportunity to lead and influence practice across a dynamic healthcare organisation? We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Clinical Nurse Specialist Intravenous Therapy Lead to join our team and play a pivotal role in delivering safe, high-quality, evidence-based intravenous therapy services. This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative and dedicated nurse who is committed to improving patient outcomes, influencing service development, and championing best practice.
If you thrive in a leadership role and are passionate about delivering exceptional patient care through specialist expertise, we would love to hear from you. This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week. Base: Swindon Intermediate Care Centre but may be required to travel across BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire so a full UK driving licence an
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Clinical Nurse Specialist Intravenous Therapy Lead to join our team and play a pivotal role in delivering safe, high-quality, evidence-based intravenous therapy services. This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative and dedicated nurse who is committed to improving patient outcomes, influencing service development, and championing best practice. If you thrive in a leadership role and are passionate about delivering exceptional patient care through specialist expertise, we would love to hear from you.
You will act as a specialist clinical resource, providing evidence based and person-centred care and ongoing support for adults requiring intravenous treatments in community settings. Key responsibilities include being responsible for your own clinical caseload, providing a link between acute and community services, and leading the development of community IV services for the organisation.
About us
Established in 2006, HCRG Care Group is one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. We work 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. Our organisation is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from a broad, diverse range of people. We are a Disability Confident Committed company, working to provide facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. We aim to transform health and care services, and our values centre around caring, thinking, and doing.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Package Description
Clinical Nurse Specialist Intravenous Therapy Lead (Band 7)
Are you an experienced and passionate nurse with expertise in intravenous therapy, looking for an opportunity to lead and influence practice across a dynamic healthcare organisation?
Base: Swindon Intermediate Care Centre but may be required to travel across BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire so a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is required.
Main Responsibilities
- Act as a specialist clinical resource for the organisation, providing evidence based and person-centred care and ongoing support for adults requiring Intravenous treatments, including blood transfusions, iron transfusions, IV medication, and venesection within community settings.
- Be responsible for own clinical caseload and to provide a link between acute and community services in the care and management of people undergoing intravenous treatments and / or venesection.
- Work collaboratively with primary care and secondary care (OPAT Teams) via nurse led clinics and patients own homes to support early discharge and hospital avoidance.
- Lead the development of community IV services for the organisation, including, the identification of further opportunities for providing generalist and specialist IV services, development and evaluation and review of clinical pathways, policies and procedures for managing IV therapy clients across primary and secondary care.
Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
Person Specification
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- Working towards Masters
- IV trained and competent
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle
- Previous line management experience
Desirable
- Teaching qualification
- PACR
Package Description
As a IV Therapy Senior Nurse you will be part of our valued team in our Swindon Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 7 AfC 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
- 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 the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
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. 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 youso please apply as soon as you can.
As youd 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 youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse, Non-Medical Prescriber, Working towards Masters, IV trained and competent, Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle, Previous line management experience
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
HCRG Care Group
Address
HCRG Care Group
Swindon Intermediate Care Centre
SN3 6BW
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)