Band 7 Community Nursing Senior Sister

We are looking for a passionate and dedicated Band 7 Senior Sister to join our friendly and dynamic Community Nursing team based at Gravesham Community Hospital. 

Working closely with our Specialist Nurses, Community Nursing teams and MDT Co-ordinators in the DGS locality, you’ll work as a highly skilled case manager delivering high quality care to patients. Essential to the role will be supporting patients in improving their quality of life, promoting excellence of health and independence within the community, preventing inappropriate hospital admissions and facilitating early discharge, as well as providing education, support with self-management and health promotion.

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.

Gravesham Community Hospital is located a short distance from St Georges Shopping Centre and is surrounded by well-known food establishments and local coffee shops.
Package DescriptionAs a Band 7 Community Nursing Senior Sister, you’ll be part of our valued team based in Gravesend.

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

£43,742 - £50,056 Band 7 Salary 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
Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location 

Main ResponsibilitiesTo provide advanced clinical nursing support for patients with complex long-term conditions and/ or elderly/frail.  Working as an autonomous practitioner, the post holder will effectively manage a caseload of patients with long term conditions, stratified as high risk.  

Working in collaboration with appropriate health and social care professionals, the post holder will ensure continuity of care; aiming to reduce preventable hospital admissions and to improve quality of care for patients with long-term conditions in their usual place of residence (own home; residential or nursing home).  

To engage with innovation, including tele technologies, to continually strive to effectively support the management of patients.  To promote self-management strategies for patients and their carers, through education and advice, to reduce avoidable reliance on urgent services and promote positive patient outcomes.
The Ideal CandidateYou will be a Registered Nurse with a current NMC registration and  a minimum of 2 years’ experience of working closely with patients with Long-term conditions with complex needs  at Band 6 or Band 7. You will have strong communication and organisational skills and a flexible approach that will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey

You will be a part of quality improvements, research and development activity. Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.

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.
About The CompanyWe 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 well 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