£32,073.00 to £39,043.00 per year, £32073.00 – £39043.00 a year
Contract Type:
Permanent
Hours:
Full time
Disability Confident:
No
Closing Date:
28/06/2026
About this job
Package Description: You will feel valued as a Staff Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: Band 5 AFc 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, such as 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: Are you a Staff Nurse looking to work with an organisation that actively promotes the health and wellbeing and development of their staff?
You may be experiencing, working in the private sector, or a newly Registered Nurse.
Cedar Ward is a nurse-led 17 bedded unit which specialises in rehabilitation and sub-acute care.
You will be working within a diverse team, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurse Associates, Healthcare Assistants, Rehabilitation Support Workers, Discharge Co-ordinators, Speech & Language Therapists, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Doctors.
There are numerous opportunities to develop your skills and we will provide Continuing Professional Development to keep your clinical skills up to date.
Chippenham Hospitals offers a canteen and free on-site parking.
Please note that we are unable to accept applications from International Nurses without a current NMC registration.
Responsibilities
Plan, deliver and evaluate compassionate nursing care to meet the patient’s individualised needs.
Ensure the highest standards of care and safety are maintained.
Responsible for the safe custody and administration of medicines, using a range of routes (once competency achieved) within the NMC Standards for Administration of Medicines and adhering to local policy.
Promote patient involvement in care planning; implement and sustain communication systems to keep patients and their relatives/families informed of treatment and progress; ensure effective communication of sensitive information with regard to patient assessments and clinical details.
Act as a role model, ensuring high quality, professional standards are maintained and delivered at all times.
Appropriately assess patients, ensuring early detection of deteriorating patient and escalating to medical team as appropriate.
Provide legible and comprehensive patient records to agreed organisational and NMC standards and guidelines.
Participate in the assessment of mental capacity of patients, referring for deprivation of liberties as appropriate.
Act at all times in patients’ best interest; demonstrate an awareness of safeguarding concerns, escalating and reporting as necessary.
Respond appropriately to patient and carer concerns, escalating to Ward Manager as required; promote equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of care.
Support Ward Sisters / Ward Manager to ensure safer staffing numbers are met on each shift; ensure effective resource management is maintained, demonstrating an awareness of cost improvement plans.
Qualifications and Experience
Ideal Candidate: First Level Registered Nurse, current/live registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council, excellent written and verbal communication, IT literate, astute interpersonal skills, ability to prioritise and organise workload, delegating appropriately, enhanced clinical competencies including venepuncture and cannulation, up to date understanding of safeguarding and mental capacity legislation, recent experience in delivering hands‑on nursing care for a group of patients, ability to demonstrate effective consolidation of nursing knowledge and practice after registration and preceptorship, working within a multidisciplinary team environment, experience within a range of patient/client care groups, evidence of continuing professional development.
Good team member, able to complement group dynamics; adaptable to changing needs of the service; self‑motivated, compassionate; willing to work in other areas of Wiltshire Health and Care as and when required.
Desirable: Teaching and assessing in practice qualification.
Equal opportunity
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 company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be inclusive of everyone.
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