Bank Parkinson's Nurse

Job Introduction
Package Description
As a Bank Band 6/7 Parkinson's Nurse Specialist, you'll be working as part of the HCRG Care Group Team in our Farnham Hospital Parkinson's service. As well as the attractive hourly rates of pay
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at HCRG Care Group you will benefit from:

• £23.06-£27.08 an hour
• Self-booking and access to all bank shifts Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
• Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
• HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
• Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
• Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
• Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
• Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
• Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
• Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
• Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual "Ask our Executives" event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
• 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

Job Introduction
Are you a Registered Nurse, Therapist, or Practitioner with a specialist interest in supporting patients with Parkinson's Disease ? If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you

We are looking for a dedicated professional—whether full-time or part-time—who is passionate about making a real impact in our Parkinson's Community Services . If you're currently a Band 6 and looking to advance your career, we can provide additional training to help you gain your V300 prescriber qualification and progress to a Band 7 role .

This is a community-based position, serving the surrounding local areas, with Farnham Hospital as your base . The service operates Monday to Friday, offering flexible hours.

Main Responsibilities
Some of your responsibilities will include:

• To 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 Candidate
The ideal candidate will be a registered nurse/therapist or practitioner with at least 3 years experience of working at a Band 6 Level or currently working at a Band 7 Level.

Some experience of working with people with Parkinson's Disease (PD) or long-term progressive neurological conditions and a strong interest in gaining further clinical knowledge and expertise of Parkinson's disease and related disorders.

You will have excellent communication and written skills that will enable you to provide information to support, promote and encourage independence and support decision-making relating to care and support needs.

A UK driving licence is also essential with access to a vehicle to provide our services to the community.
We are looking for passionate and enthusiastic specialist nurses who are looking to impact to their local community .

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 .

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 .

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you . If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy .

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