About this role
Job summary <p style="margin:0px;font-size:inherit;padding:5px 0px;">Were looking for Band 5 Community Nurses tojoin our North Kent Community Nursing Service Swale, with a base at Sheppey Community Hospital,to help us continue to change things for the better. The community nursing team works across Sheppey, Sittingbourne and outlying villages. </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:inherit;padding:5px 0px;">If you feel you are committed to delivering excellent holistic patient centred care this could be the job for you.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:inherit;padding:5px 0px;">You will also be supported when you first start in your role by managers, colleagues and our TLE department to complete all your training and to show you the ropes of the job! Your learning and development in the role will also be supported through our dedication to regular team meetings to share best practice and weekly one to ones with managers. You will also be provided with the latest equipment to allow you to provide the clinical standards of the highest quality. We also continue to thrive in our environment to excel in the CQC domains.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:inherit;padding:5px 0px;"><strong style="font-weight:700;">A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential.</strong></p>
Main duties of the job <p style="margin:0px;font-size:inherit;padding:5px 0px;">As a Community Nurse you will care for patients and their families in the way that you believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work to help us continue to change things for the better. We feel passionate that everyone should feel valued when they come into contact with our organisation, whether that\'s you, someone we care for or the wider community we operate in.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:inherit;padding:5px 0px;">You will put to use your strong communication and organisation skills, along with a flexible approach, to ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:inherit;padding:5px 0px;">Youll care for patients and their families in the way that you believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work to help us continue to change things for the better. We feel passionate that everyone should feel valued when they come into contact with our organisation, whether that\'s you, someone we care for or the wider community we operate in.</p>
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 <p style="margin:0px;font-size:inherit;padding:5px 0px;">As a Band 5 Community Nurse, youll be part of our valued team at Sheppey Community Hospital in Sheerness.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:inherit;padding:5px 0px;">You will feel valued as a Community Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:</p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;"><li style="font-size:inherit;">AFC Band 5 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)</li><li style="font-size:inherit;">Plentiful on site-parking</li><li style="font-size:inherit;">Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you</li><li style="font-size:inherit;">Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates</li><li style="font-size:inherit;">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 </li><li style="font-size:inherit;">Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise </li><li style="font-size:inherit;">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</li><li style="font-size:inherit;">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</li><li style="font-size:inherit;">Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location</li></ul> <p style="margin:0px;font-size:inherit;padding:5px 0px;">You will be a NMC/1stlevel registered Nurse, you will have the ability to work both independently and also as part of a wider multidisciplinary team. It is expected that youshould have strongcommunication and organisation skills and a flexible approach which will ensureyou deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of theirhealthcare journey.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:inherit;padding:5px 0px;"><strong style="font-weight:700;">You will have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes.</strong></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:inherit;padding:5px 0px;">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.</p>
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Employer details Employer name HCRG Care Group
Address HCRG Care Group
Sheerness
Kent
ME12 3LT
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)