Staff Nurse Band 5 - Cedar Ward

Job summary

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 every day 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 lifes 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 youre 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 experienced, 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

Main duties of the job

The Staff Nurse Band 5 position at Cedar Ward with HCRG Care Group in Chippenham offers a permanent opportunity to join a dedicated team in a nurse-led 17 bedded unit focusing on rehabilitation and sub-acute care. The role promises a Band 5 AfC salary, NHS Pension, and adherence to Agenda for Change terms along with access to My Reward Hub for everyday discounts and cashback. Additional benefits include immediate access to wages, mental and physical well-being support, professional development paths through The Learning Enterprise, and a supportive environment promoting staff ideas with innovation funding. The main responsibilities include delivering compassionate care, maintaining high care standards, ensuring medicine safety, and fostering patient communication. Required qualifications are a First Level Registered Nurse with an active Nursing Midwifery Council registration, excellent communication skills, IT literacy, strong interpersonal abilities, and experience in hands-on nursing within multidisciplinary teams coupled with clinical competencies and a commitment to professional development.

About us

HCRG Care Group, established in 2006, stands as one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. The group collaborates with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services prioritizing experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. Primarily, HCRG delivers a wide range of services, including adult and children community health services, primary care services, adult social care, and wellbeing services among others like urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and musculoskeletal services. The organization impacts communities nationwide, providing help to over half a million people annually, guided by core values: 'we care, we think, we do'. Emphasizing inclusivity, HCRG is a Disability Confident Committed company, ensuring equal opportunities through flexible facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical tools, furthering a culture of safeguarding and respecting diversity.

Details

• Date posted: 08 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: 1561045672
• Job locations: HCRG Care Group, Chippenham, SN15 2AJ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

Package Description

You will feel valued as a Staff Nursewithin 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 every day 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 lifes 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 youre 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

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 experienced, 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.

Plan, deliver and evaluate compassionate nursing care to meet the patients 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, Implementing and sustaining communication systems to keep patients and their relatives/families informed of treatment and progress

To ensure effective communication is achieved and maintained of sensitive information, with regard to the patient assessments and clinical details.

To act as a role model, ensuring high quality, professional standards are maintained and delivered at all times.

To appropriately assess patients, ensuring early detection of the 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. Acting at all times in patients best interest

Demonstrate an awareness of safeguarding concerns, escalating and reporting as necessary.

Respond appropriately to patient and carers concerns, escalating to Ward Manager as required

To promote equality, diversion and inclusion in all aspects of care.

To support Ward Sisters / Ward Manager to ensure safer staffing numbers are met on each shift

To ensure effective resource management is maintained, demonstrating an awareness of cost improvement plans

First Level Registered Nurse

Current/live registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council

Excellent written and verbal communication

I.T. Literate

Astute interpersonal skills and is able to deal with difficult/sensitive situations

Ability to prioritise and organise own workload, delegating appropriately

Enhanced clinical competencies, including venepuncture and cannulation for example

Up to date understanding of safeguarding and mental capacity legislation

Recent experience in delivering hands on nursing care for a group of patients

Able to demonstrate effective consolidation of nursing knowledge and practice after registration and Preceptorship

Working within a multi-disciplinary 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 to do so.

Desirable

Teaching and assessing in practice qualification

Please see the attached Job description for the full list.

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.Were 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As youd 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 youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well 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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).