Package Description As a Community Nurse Band 7, you will be part of our valued team in our Bath Locality Hospital at Home. Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: £47,810 - £54,710 (Band 7 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 Job Introduction We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Nurse Band 7 to join our Bath Hospital at Home service based in our Peasdown - Unit 2 Hub. The service is currently undergoing an exciting period of transformation, making this an excellent time to become part of a dynamic and innovative team. As a Community Nurse, you will be part of the Step-up Clinical Team, working in partnership with the Royal United Hospital Bath (RUH) Step down (Hospital at Home) team under the Umbrella of BaNES Virtual Ward. This is an exciting collaboration working across organisational boundaries to bring together the expertise of acute services with community services. The Step-up team has a primary focus on admission avoidance and the Step-down team supports early discharge from the acute setting. Both teams will work interchangeably and collaboratively in response to demand and capacity across the Virtual Ward. Although the referral routes are different the treatment, interventions and care will be the same. Patients within either pathway are those who would have traditionally needed acute hospital treatment but instead receive acute multidisciplinary care in the place they call home. You’ll be 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 The team will include around 18 full-time colleagues in both advanced clinical and non-registered support roles, brought in through a phased recruitment plan that grows with Virtual Ward demand over the coming year. You’ll work closely with Care Coordination, Therapies, Nursing, and the RUH Virtual Ward team, contributing to the development of patient pathways into, through, and out of the service. As a Community Nurse, you’ll support the assessment, management and treatment of patients in community settings, initially focusing on referrals from the 2-hour Urgent Community Response before helping shape wider referral routes. You’ll also collaborate with the BSW Care Coordination Centres to strengthen models that reduce unnecessary hospital conveyance and make best use of Virtual Ward capacity. Working within a multidisciplinary team across primary, secondary, acute and social care, you’ll help coordinate timely, specialist interventions for people who might otherwise require hospital admission or need support to leave emergency care. You’ll take responsibility for the Virtual Ward caseload and ensure smooth, coordinated care throughout each patient’s journey. Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities. Ideal Candidate Essential Registered with the NMC or HCPC educated to degree level Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification Significant previous experience in elderly care, frailty, community services or relevent acute care speciality Clinical and technical skills in managing a range of clincial conditions Proven skills in managing complex patient/service user caseloads Experience in carrying out clincial audt and quality improvement projects Excellent written and verbal communication skills Abilty to confidently work autonomously and as part of a wider multidisciplinary team Strong judgement and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex situations and make appropriate decisions Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment Good IT skills Desirable Masters degree Registered current Non Medical Prescriber qualification Experience of leading and managing a team Other requirements: clean driving licence, Car driver, access to a vehicle for daily use 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. Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you.If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.