Community Nurse (Band 5) – Join an Outstanding Team That Makes a Difference!
Location: Somer Valley Community Nurses, Midsomer Norton & surrounding areas.
Hours: Full time Fixed Term for 12 months.
Are you a dedicated and compassionate nurse looking to make a meaningful impact in your community? Would you like to join a service which has been rated as outstanding by CQC?
The Somer Valley Community Nursing Team are excited to welcome a new Community Nurse to our close-knit and supportive team.
Why Join Us?
A Passionate & Friendly Team: We are a friendly, compassionate and experienced team who value collaboration and innovation.
Make a Real Impact: Provide high-quality nursing care in patients' homes, ensuring dignity, independence, and well-being.
Career Growth & Learning: Gain new skills, embrace positive change, and share best practices to continuously improve patient care.
Holistic & Person-Centred Approach: Work within a large multidisciplinary team (MDT) to ensure patients receive the best possible care throughout their healthcare journey.
What We're Looking For:
A motivated, adaptable, and hardworking nurse who thrives in a dynamic environment.
Excellent communication skills to support patients, families, and colleagues.
A proactive approach to holistic case management and rehabilitation.
A full UK driving licence and access to a car with business insurance for community visits.
If you're ready for a rewarding career in community nursing, where every day brings new
opportunities to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you!
Main Responsibility
As a Band 5 Community Nurse, you will play a key role in supporting the community nursing team and wider multidisciplinary team in Midsomer Norton and the surrounding areas. Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
• Providing holistic patient assessments and palliative care, including symptom management and psychological support.
• Complex equipment assessment, ordering, and provision to meet patient needs.
• Administering intravenous medications and managing Central Venous Access Devices for treatments such as antibiotics and cytotoxic therapies.
• Subcutaneous fluid administration and controlled drug medication administration.
• Developing specialist skills through link nurse roles or champion roles, gaining experience within specialist areas such as tissue viability.
• Mentoring and supporting healthcare assistants, registered nurses, and students in achieving clinical competencies.
Main Responsibility
In this role you will be responsible for:
• Undertaking first line assessment, care planning and evaluation of patient care needs and taking action to address underlying causes e.g. nutritional assessment, pressure ulcer assessment.
• Working within the multidisciplinary team to support the managing of people with long term conditions, palliative care and terminal illnesses.
• Planning, delivering and evaluating health promotion strategies and providing advice to empower individuals.
• Utilising evidence-based practice and research to inform patient care.
• To be responsible for the caseload in the absence of the team leader for short periods.
• To implement, monitor and maintain agreed standards of care, reporting to the team leader in all instances where such standards cannot be met.
• Maintaining knowledge, skills and training (quality and safety) necessary to deliver a quality service that is responsive to the changing needs of patients.
• Responsible for maintaining skills and continuing professional development in line with registration and revalidation requirement.
• Participating in appraisals, peer review, supervisor meetings and personal development plans to identify and agree training and development.
The Ideal Candidate
You will be dedicated registered nurse who is able to work both independently and as part of a wider multidisciplinary team. It is expected that youshould have strongcommunication and organisation skills and a flexible approach which will ensureyou deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of theirhealthcare journey.
You will have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes.
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
As a Band 5 Community Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued Somer Valley Community Team.
You will also feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
• AFC Band 5 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
• Clinical support from dedicated team leaders and clinical leads.
• 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’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 most 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.
Sometimes, when a role is very popular, we will close the application 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.
* Salary £29,970 - £36,483 + AFC terms and NHS Pension
* Frequency Annual
* Job Reference HCRGCG/TP/111228/15712
* Contract Type Fixed Term - Full Time
* Closing Date 22 June, 2025
* Job Category HCRG - Nursing and Midwifery Registered
* Business Unit HCRG - Bath and North East Somerset
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