Band 5 Ward Nurse- Sapphire Ward

NHS; Gravesend; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization in Gravesend seeks passionate Band 5 Nurses for their Sapphire Ward. This full-time role involves delivering high-quality personalized patient care, focusing on the rehabilitation of those affected by strokes and neurological conditions. Registered Nurses will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, maintaining safety and cleanliness while ensuring effective communication with patients and families. Competitive salary with benefits including NHS Pension, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Area High Cost Allowance (5%)

Access to discounts via My Reward Hub

Flexible pay access

Health and wellbeing support

Career development opportunities

Free tea, coffee, and milk

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with a license to practice to deliver patient care.
• Passionate about rehabilitation for patients after stroke/neurological conditions.
• Willingness to cover all shift patterns, including nights and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high standards of patient focused care.
• Provide assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care.
• Communicate effectively with patients and their families.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Organizational skills

Confidence using IT systems

Ability to support rehabilitation

Education

Registered Nurse with a license to practice

Tools

Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)

Job description

We’re looking for enthusiastic and passionate Band 5 Nurses to join our friendly and welcoming Ward team based on our Sapphire Ward at Gravesham Community Hospital, North Kent to help us to continue to change things for the better.

As a Ward Nurse, you will work collaboratively alongside our multi-disciplinary teams. We have 21 beds for patients where you will be responsible for contributing to the holistic assessment, planning delivery and evaluation of patient care. You should be passionate about the rehabilitation of patients who have suffered from a stroke/neurological condition in your care and be encouraging them, to aid their ability for independent living.

You will 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.

You’ll 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.

We currently have full-time position (37.5 hours per week).

Main duties of the job

• Maintain a high standard of patient focused care.
• Maintain a safe and clean working environment.
• Provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care for patients, ensuring accurate written records are kept.
• Communicate with patients and carers to ensure they have access to appropriate information.
• Promote and maintain positive relationships between all staff involved in the care of the patient.
• Act in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

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 will 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

Ideal Candidate

You will be a registered Nurse with license to practice and should be passionate about the rehabilitation of patients in your care and be encouraging them to aid their ability for independent living. Our services 24/7, so a willingness to cover all shift patterns including nights and weekends is essential.

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.

Package Description

You will feel valued as a Band 5 Ward Nurse with HCRG Care Group based on Sapphire Ward for our Neuro Stroke Team, at Gravesham Community Hospital, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• AFC Band 5 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• 5% Area High Cost Allowance
• 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 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 as 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 organization committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with most of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location

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.