# Band 5 Community Registered Nurse

**Company**: Camden Integrated Community Healthcare (CICH)
**Location**: London
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £38,488 to £46,852 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has become available in the West Integrated Neighbourhood Team for a Band 5 nurse to join our Camden Integrated Community Healthcare (CICH) team.

We are looking for a Registered Nurse to work in a skill-mixed, seven-day-a-week nursing team. The team is supported by an overall Operational Lead in one of our five Integrated Locality Teams.

As a Community Nurse, you will provide nursing interventions to a range of housebound patients and help to manage their care supported by a skilled team of nurses. We are proactive in looking for enthusiastic and skilled nurses who will facilitate the delivery of excellent community nursing care, enjoy our new ways of working and who want to learn and excel in their career.

**Main Duties of the Job**

Your role will include providing high-quality care for patients in a community setting. You will work closely with other nursing and therapy staff to care for a designated caseload of patients. This will include undertaking holistic assessments, reviewing patient nursing care needs and supporting junior staff and students as needed.

We have a range of Practice Development and Professional Leads who are on hand for supervision and support. You will work alongside Complex Care Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Rehabilitation assistants, Pharmacy technicians, students, and colleagues within Social Care, Mental Health, the Voluntary Sector, and General Practice.

You will work with our specialist teams i.e. Evening and Overnight Nursing team, Rapid Response, Palliative Care, Tissue Viability, Bladder & Bowel, Community Stroke and Neurology, Respiratory, Heart Failure and Diabetes teams and in-patient wards.

You will need NMC registration and have passion for learning and delivering the best nursing care. Community experience is not essential, but you will need to demonstrate an understanding of autonomous working in the community, with evidence of transferable skills.

**Job Responsibilities**

- Keeping patients safe through sound clinical skills and effective clinical assessments

- Safeguarding patients by recognising and responding to risks

- Escalating safety concerns and acting as effective advocates for patients

- Being open and transparent about practice

- Supervising others and reflecting on practice to identify areas for improvement

- Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement

- Maintaining accurate records and complying with mandatory training requirements

**Skills**

- Autonomous practice

- Diabetes management

- Tissue viability and wound care

- Bladder and bowel skills

- IV medication administration

- Palliative care

- Drain care

**Benefits**

- Substantial relocation package if eligible

- Inner London weighting

- Training and career development opportunities

- Opportunities for research and audit

- Flexible working patterns

- Good opportunity for progression

## Skills

### Required
- NMC registration
- clinical assessments
- safeguarding
- autonomous practice
- diabetes management
- tissue viability
- bladder and bowel skills
- IV medication administration
- palliative care

### Nice to have
- community experience

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