Registered Nurse

As a Registered Nurse, you will play a key role within the clinical team, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to assess, plan and deliver patient care, while supporting safe and effective discharge. We care for both step-up and step-down patients, with a strong focus on rehabilitation and enabling individuals to return home safely. This is a nurse-led unit where you will work alongside forward-thinking, compassionate colleagues who are dedicated to delivering high-quality care and making a real difference to people in the local community. Does this sound like something that would interest you? If you are interested, please come for an informal visit to meet our team. To arrange this or for further information please contact Ward Manager James Outhwaite email: james.outhwaite@hcrgcaregroup.com We are happy to answer any questions that you may have. Main Responsibilities As a Band 6 Nurse on Savernake Ward, you will assess, plan and deliver high-quality care for patients with complex needs, using your clinical judgement to manage acutely unwell patients and escalate when required. You will prioritise workload, triage referrals, and work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will provide leadership and support to junior staff, students and new starters, contributing to induction, supervision and training. Acting as a role model, you will help maintain high standards of care, documentation and professional practice across the ward. The role involves working a mixture of shifts, including days, nights and weekends.

Essential

• Registered nurse
• Clinical assessment skills
• IV therapy competency
• Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Experienced in the use of NEWS2 diagnostic tool and when to escalate
• Contribute to the development of others, supervising and teaching, mentoring, including student Nurses
• Previous experience in elderly care, frailty, community services or relevant acute care speciality
• Excellent written and verbal communication, and interpersonal skills Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
• Good IT skills
• Work within the NMC code of conduct.
• Knowledge of community environment
• Good Communication skills including IT literacy and knowledge of computer systems.
• Undertake evidence based clinical practice.
• Experience of caring for people with long term conditions
• Experience of pressure ulcer prevention
• Awareness of self-neglect, safeguarding and abusive situations to be the patients advocate.
• Ability to be an effective team member. Awareness of team dynamics.
• Work within the boundaries of legislation, policies, procedures, and standards.
  
  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. 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.

As a Registered Nurse Band 6, you'll be part of our valued team at Savernake Community Hospital, working on Savernake Ward. You will feel valued as a Registered Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
• AFC Band 6 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
• Plentiful on site-parking
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location