As a Band 5 nurse within HCRG Care Group Business Unit 10 you’ll join a team who are focused on improving the health and wellbeing of local children, predominantly between the age of 0-5 years and recently received a “good” CQC rating. 

Our UNICEF Baby Friendly Accredited Health Visiting Team is expanding!

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our Band 6 SCPHN Health Visitors and Community Nursery Nurses.

As the Health Visiting Staff Nurse provide preventative and supportive healthcare to children and families in Wiltshire. This includes the identification, monitoring and provision of targeted support to vulnerable children and those whose welfare and safety may be at risk. You will play a vital role in ensuring that every child gets the best start in life!

Support and development are at the forefront of our team. A full induction programme will support you in transitioning to this role as well as support and encouragement to apply for the Specialist Public Health Nursing Course.

If you have a passion for improving outcomes for children and families, we would love to hear from you!

You will feel valued as a Staff Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• £28,407-£34,581 FTE with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• 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 a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

As a Staff Nurse for the Health Visiting Team in Wiltshire you will:

• Participate in the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme by using an outcome approach to deliver brief interventions for vulnerable families
• Support with behaviour and emotional wellbeing as well as deliver family drop-in sessions
• Work in partnership with children and families to identify any health needs at the earliest opportunity
• Work in partnership with Early Years Services in the community.
• To support Infant feeding and parent infant relationships by adhering to the Baby Friendly Initiative Standards
• You will also supervise the nursery nurses by offering them support and guidance

You will also be able to attend regular sessions for supervision, clinical, safeguarding and management created to ensure you feel supported and able to share experiences to learn from peers and develop your own skills and knowledge.

If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact Lucy Binney lucy.binney@hcrgcaregroup.com or on 07976857832. Very happy to help

You will be a registered nurse, midwife or mental health nurse with a minimum of 6 months post-graduate experience and have a caring and approachable demeanour in order to gain the trust and respect of local families and children.

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.

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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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