Bank Registered Nurse - Post Acute Rehabilitation Band 5

Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. Being born from NHS Bromley's community provider unit we have been providing community services to the people of Bromley for many years and we have a wealth of experience.

Bromley Healthcare is a great place to work. The unique way we deliver services and offer everyone who works here a voice, means that your career with us will be rewarding. Social Enterprises are a fairly new and exciting way to deliver healthcare, offering many of the traditional advantages of the NHS (such as excellent training and development) with the freedom for innovation by being able to reinvest any surpluses we make into the community.

Priority consideration will be given to Bromley Healthcare staff formally identified as being at risk.

Bank - Registered Nurse - Post Acute Rehabilitation, Band 5

Salary GBP24,907 - GBP 30,165 + GBP3784 - GBP4592 HCAS

*Please note this is a bank role*

Are you interested in caring for patients who have recently had an acute hospital stay and need support to return to their own homes? Do you want to develop your assessment and nursing skills in a supportive but challenging environment? Perhaps you are someone who wants to move into Community nursing and wants to take the first step away from a hospital environment???.if so then please consider coming and meeting the friendly team at Bromley Healthcare Rehabilitation Services, based at the Foxbury unit at Queen Marys hospital in Sidcup. We are a 30 bedded unit that provides rehabilitation to patients following a period of acute illness/injury.

The service also provides Intermediate Care Programmes to patients in Bromley and embraces nursing, therapy, social care, mental health and medical aspects of care. The truly multi disciplinary team assists with the rehabilitation of clients in a community based setting. Care is redirected to other generic services as required on discharge. Comprehensive assessments of complex cases are a key part of the service.

As a Band 5 nurse you are responsible for ensuring the effective provision of nursing care for patients in the unit. You may be asked to act up for the senior Staff Nurse and will regularly take charge of a nursing caseload when you have achieved the relevant competencies.

You will share responsibility with the therapists for the management of rehabilitation programmes for patients while on the unit. You will carry continuing responsibility for the comprehensive assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of care programmes. You are accountable for providing high standards of nursing care that embody the 6 C's and for determining the activity of her/his support staff.

We are always looking for experienced nursing and therapy professionals to join our Bank of casual staff. We offer services in the following specialist areas community nursing, rehabilitation services and paediatrics throughout the borough of Bromley and beyond. Please see the jobs page on our website for further details.

Unfortunately this role is not suitable for RMN's.

You can get a flavour for what its like to work for Bromley Healthcare by viewing the following YouTube link:

Salary is dependant on NHS experience and current banding/pay point, applicants from outside the NHS will receive the start point of the salary scale in line with NHS terms & conditions.

Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, opportunity to apply for low interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme.

Bromley Healthcare is fully committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, in a work environment where all colleagues feel supported, nurtured and celebrated. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. At Bromley Healthcare, diversity and inclusion is one of the key strands of our People Strategy, and we are fully committed to promoting diversity in all we do to make real and lasting change.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome and encourage applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of race, sex, disability, religion /belief, sexual orientation or age. We are especially keen to increase Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) representation across Bromley Healthcare, especially at senior levels.

We look forward to welcoming you to a rewarding career with Bromley Healthcare.

All offers of new employment with Bromley Healthcare are subject to a six month probation period

Bromley Healthcare CIC is an NHS community provider and part of the NHS family.

But we are a little different; we like to think that we stand out from typical NHS organisations as Bromley Healthcare CIC is actually a co-owned social enterprise, co-owned by its employees. This means that our staff remain on NHS Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and are members of the NHS pension scheme (providing you are eligible), if not we can offer the Nest or Scottish Widows pension schemes.