Specialist Community Nurse

Join our team as a Specialist Community Nurse (Band 6) and play a vital role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care within the community. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and compassionate registered nurse who is passionate about improving health outcomes, promoting independence, and supporting people to live well in their own homes.

As a Specialist Community Nurse (Band 6), you will provide high-quality nursing care, treatment, advice and support to individuals within their own homes or outpatient settings, promoting and facilitating patient independence, wellbeing and self-management. Working within national and local frameworks, professional guidelines, protocols and policies, you will deliver person-centred care that meets the complex needs of patients and their families.

You will manage a caseload of patients, providing expert clinical assessment, care planning and evaluation, while acting as a clinical leader within the multidisciplinary team. The role includes providing leadership, guidance and senior clinical support to peers, junior registered staff and Support Workers within your own discipline, as well as offering specialist advice to other healthcare professionals to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate care.

Please see the job descriptin attached for a full list of responsibilities.

For any enquiries regarding this role, please contact ellie-jane.dixon@hcrgcaregroup.com / 07884658788

The ideal candidate will have -

Essential:

• Registered nurse
• First degree
• Post graduate community qualification e.g. community specialist practitioner
• Recognised assessing and supervising students in practice qualification.
• To possess a current, valid driving licence and to be a competent driver
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Knowledge of legislation affecting professional practice
• Experience of applying research-based information to practice
• Non-medical prescriber
• Up to date community experience
• Case management experience
• Significant experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team
• Leadership experience
• Teaching experience
• Knowledge of recruitment, selection & appraisal system
• Setting and monitoring standards of care
• Experience within a wide range of patient/client care groups.
• To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
• To be able to work flexibly and sensitively.
• Wide range of interpersonal and communication skills
• Competence in a wide range of nursing skills
• I.T. literate
• Skills in preparing and presenting teaching sessions.
• Undertake specific nursing tasks requiring precision and/or intense concentration. Undertaking complex nursing skills
• Manual handling skills and experience
• Ability to sensitively inform service users on complex and distressing issues. Able to support and facilitate staff in dealing with these situations.
• To be flexible and adaptable
• Full UK driving license and access to a car for work

Desirable:

• Further qualifications relevant to community nursing
• Awareness of recent Government initiatives that may affect future clinical practice
• Profiling community needs and targeting identified health needs of population.

Package Description

As a Specialist Community Nurse (Band 6) you will be part of our valued team in our Community Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 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 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 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. 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.

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