Bank Band 6 Registered Nurse - Swindon

Job Introduction

Package Description

As a Bank Registered Nurse Band 6, you’ll be part of our valued team in our SwindonHospital at Home service.

• Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
• Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
• HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
• Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
• Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
• Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users

Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards with the majority of our rated services considered overall good or outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.

Job Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity for a Bank Registered Nurse Band 6, to join our Swindon Hospital at Home service. The service is currently undergoing an exciting period of transformation, making this an excellent time to become part of a dynamic and innovative team. Post will be based at the Orbital, North Swindon,

As a registered Nurse, you will be part of the Clinical Team, working across organisational boundaries to bring together the expertise of acute services with community services. We support both step-up patients with a primary focus on admission avoidance and step-down patients supporting early discharge from the acute setting.

You will be working as a Nurse, joining innovative and forward-thinking colleagues who are compassionate and committed to the people in the local community who use our services and go above and beyond to ensure they receive the best quality care.

Main Responsibilities

As a Nurse, you will work with a good degree of independence, carrying out tasks and responsibilities delegated by the lead clinician . You will be an important part of the team, helping to meet the needs of patients in community settings, initially focusing on those referred through the 2-hour Urgent Community Response (UCR), and later supporting the development of broader referral pathways .

Working within a multidisciplinary team and across primary, secondary, acute, and social care services in Wiltshire, you will play a key role in coordinating specialist interventions for people who might otherwise require hospital care, or who need timely support to leave emergency departments safely .

You will take responsibility for your clinical caseload and help ensure smooth coordination of care throughout each patient’s journey.

As part of this role, your responsibilities will include:

Clinical practice – Providing evidence-based advanced clinical skills to support appropriate patient care, under the guidance of a registered clinician. This includes assessing patients, interpreting tests within your scope of practice, and planning care and treatment. You will recognise early signs of deterioration, respond promptly, escalate when needed, and document your actions clearly .

Management

– Organising your time and workload effectively, advocating for patients, managing your caseload day to day, offering advice and treatment recommendations, working closely with clinicians in the Virtual Ward team, and contributing to supervision.

Leadership – Serving as a positive role model for colleagues and promoting collaborative working. You will help challenge traditional boundaries in a supportive way while upholding high standards of quality, safety, and professional practice .

Supporting the learning environment – Demonstrating commitment to your own professional development and supporting the learning of colleagues and student nurses.

Continuous improvement – Noticing areas where practice can be strengthened and contributing to improvement efforts within a Just Culture that values reflection and learning.

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.

Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Registered nurse
• Evidence of study at Level 6 or above
• Advanced clinical assessment skills

Desirable

• Knowledge of clinical systems such as Systmone.
• Independent prescribing qualification
• Postgraduate certificate in advanced practice or relevant specialty
  
  

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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