Help for Heroes

Help for Heroes – Veterans Community Nurse

Salary: Up to £42,936.00

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Location: Hybrid – Remote and Community working in Truro and Plymouth

There are many ways we help veterans, their relatives, serving personnel, and people who worked alongside the UK military. We help people with their physical and mental health needs, and a range of welfare issues. Our support gives people the skills, confidence and knowledge to make a success of life after service.

And who are we you’re wondering? We are experts and beginners. Generalists and specialists. Ordinary people with an extraordinary passion towards making a positive change to the lives of our veterans (and having fun while doing it).

As One Team we share a philosophy – I.C.A.R.E. It’s the way we walk and talk, the way we interact with others and how we approach everything we do. We are:

Innovative – Collaborative – Authentic – Resourceful – Energetic.

We have an incredible opportunity for a Veterans Community Nurse to join our team.

Please see below for more information on what just might be your future role.

About You

Are you a committed, Registered Band 6 Nurse looking to expand your skills and have the opportunity to work with the Armed Forces Community? If you have an understanding of and empathy with the requirements of veterans and their families, you could contribute your skills and experience to improve the quality of life for our armed forces community

About the Role

As a Veteran’s Community Nurse you will:

  • Act as an initial point of contact between veterans with the resultant long-term health issues, and the NHS, integrating Help for Heroes input to the medical pathway with the Recovery MDT process. .
  • Provide Clinical advice and support to the veterans, their families/support network and Help for Heroes staff.
  • Support the “challenging to reach” veterans within the community.

Please see job description below for more details about the role.

About the Team

You will be joining the clinical team at Help For Heroes to provide community based input to armed forces veterans. We are resourceful in finding ways to deliver what is right and fair in the healthcare domain. Our aim is to champion the Armed Forces Community and to do this as one team of OTs and Registered Nurses. If you feel that you could join a team that is excited, confident and ready for tomorrow’s challenges this may be role for you.

What we offer

To enable our employees to thrive in all aspects of their lives we proudly support flexible working practices. You can tailor your working day around your work and private commitments providing you maintain high class service to the team and our veterans at all times. And there are also a wide range of other benefits we offer like 29 days paid holiday, enhanced family friendly packages, health cashback plan.

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If you have any questions about the role or need further information please do not hesitate to contact us via email to jobs@helpforheroes.org.uk.

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