Band 5 Bank Community Nurse

Employer:

NHS Professionals - Flexible Workers

Location:

Hertfordshire

Salary:

Hourly

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Band 5 Bank CommunityNurse

(flexible and long term opportunities available)

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

Locations covered:Various locations across Hertfordshire.

Pay rates

Basic

Day: £16.13

Night/Sat: £20.97

Sun/Bank Holiday: £25.80

‘Earlies’, ‘Lates’, ‘Days’, ‘Nights’ & ‘Weekend’ bank shift patterns available. Rates include holiday pay which is accrued for hours worked and paid separately

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust - often referred to as HCT - provides services across the county and in West Essex,making about 1.1 million contacts a year with service users. This Trust provides a wide range of care in people's homes, community settings and in its community hospitals.

They employ around 3,000 members of staff who are at theforefront of NHS care and support.

Staff reach the deepest into an individual's life working with wider colleagues in the NHS, social care, education, charities and local government to personalise care packages which supportthem to maintain their independence for as long as possible.

We are looking for Community Staff Nurses to provide high value health care to patients in a community setting under the direction of a Team Manager, as part of a large integrated community team of Band 7, Band 6, Band 5, and Band 3 nurses.

 

Requirements:

• Demonstrate an understanding of current professional and community issues.
• Commit to being flexible in order to be innovative and responsive to continual developments within community nursing services. You must be able to work autonomously and possess excellent communication skills. You must be able to drive and supply your own transport, expenses will be covered.
• In order to apply for a post youmusthave a minimum of 6 months experience in a similar role held within the last 2 years and beNMCregistered.

Skills:

• Assessing patients within their own homes (Essential)
• RN registration (Essential)
• Good communication skills (Essential)
• Holistic assessment (Essential)
• Wound care (Essential)
• Sub cut medications (Essential)
• Comfortable with using IT (Essential)
• Wound care (Essential)
• Car driver (Essential)
• Phlebotomy (Desirable)
• IV drug administration (Desirable)
• EOL care (Desirable)
• Compression Bandaging (Desirable)

 

We’re committed to giving you more flexibility and control over your working life. By joining the NHSP bank you’ll gain access to the best choice of available shifts.

In return for your hard work and your professional, caring and reliable service you will have access to the following benefits:

- Competitive, weekly pay

- Priority access to available shifts

- Access to the NHSP Stakeholder Pension

- Paid annual leave, statutory maternity pay (subject to qualifying criteria)

- Training and development opportunities

- First choice of shifts

- Uniform and other workplace benefits

Please note that you will be regularly informed via email of the recruitment process, so please check your emails regularly.

Though we endeavor to do so, we regret that we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

 

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Please note that you will be contacted via e-mail throughout the recruitment process, so please check your e-mails regularly.

We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.