Community Nurse - Community Response Team (CRT) Stratford and Warwick

NHS; Leamington; Hybrid; CAD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is looking for a Community Nurse to join their Community Response Team in Leamington and Stratford. The ideal candidate will assess and manage patient needs, with responsibilities involving delivering holistic care in patients' homes and collaborating with various health professionals. Successful candidates must have NMC registration and a valid driving license. Working hours include weekends and bank holidays. Mileage for work-related travel will be compensated.

Qualifications

• Must be registered with the NMC and possess a valid driving license.
• Experience in adult general nursing is required.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Assess and manage patient needs to prevent hospital admissions.
• Deliver nursing care in a community setting.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for comprehensive patient care.

Skills

NMC registration

Driving license

Clinical nursing skills

Effective communication

Teamworking

Computer literacy

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Mentor and Assessing Qualification

Job description

Go back South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

Community Nurse - Community Response Team (CRT) Stratford and Warwick

The closing date is 18 December 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, forward thinking, and self-motivated individual to join our Community Response Team based over 2 sites in Leamington and Stratford.

The Community Response Team operates across the hours of 08:30-21:30, 7 days a week, including weekends and bank holidays. Shifts are allocated pro rata; we offer a mix of early, late and long days.

To be successful with this post, you must live in the UK and have a full NMC registration. You must also possess a valid driving license and have access to your own car for this role. Mileage will be paid for work-related travel.

As a Community Nurse working in CRT you will be responsible for assessing, identifying and managing patients' needs who have had a deterioration in their health. You will have a varied caseload seeing patients with long term conditions, falls, acute illness, supporting patients at the end of their life, and providing holistic, comprehensive care to patients in their own homes. The Community Response Teams' aim is to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate hospital discharges within a timely manner. You will also work closely with the Multidisciplinary Team, including Therapists, GPs, Social Services, Urgent Response and many more. You will be working collaboratively with the other community service teams to deliver seamless care across the locality, working within an unpredictable and unscheduled workload.

Main duties of the job

The community staff nurse is a member of the Integrated Health Team, undertaking professional duties in the client's homes and clinics to ensure provision of high standard nursing care and health promotion. To work across professional boundaries, providing comprehensive health care that is sensitive to the needs of the local population.

About us

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2

We appreciate you completing the survey.

Job responsibilities

Main Functions

• Act in accordance with current local Warwickshire Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children, and SWFT guidelines/policy to protect vulnerable adults and children.
• Contribute towards ensuring AHP & Nursing Strategy is implemented across the Integrated Health Team.
• To undertake the first contact assessment, including planning, implementation, evaluation and reassessments of the care plans.
• In the absence of the District Nurse, to take responsibility for the day to day management of the nursing workload, delegating the workload appropriately to other team members.
• To establish priorities of care in accordance with caseload management.
• To take responsibility for updating and developing professional knowledge and skills which relate to clinical practice.
• To act within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and comply with the Trust's policies and procedures.
• To participate in the development, training and mentorship of preregistration students and staff as required including induction and preceptorship programmes.
• To provide skilled clinical nursing practices.

Communication

• Develop and maintain effective communication networks, with service users, health care professionals and other statutory and voluntary organisations.
• To promote and maintain accurate record keeping in order to conform to NMC policy and Data protection.

Responsibility for patient care

• To action referrals appropriately according to risk and need in accordance to the service referral criteria.
• To undertake planned and opportunistic health promotion and education activities with patients and carers.
• Act as a patient advocate where appropriate.

Policy and Service Development

• Understanding national policy and guidance and the ability to interpret and implement at service level.

Responsibility for Human Resources

• Direct supervision of junior members of staff.
• Act independently on a range of delegated tasks and use own initiative in order to manage own workload within appropriate professional guidelines.
• Participate in the PDR process to identify personal and team development goals.
• Able to organise staff in the absence of the District Nurse (Band 6) reporting to a senior member of staff any anomalies.

Professional Responsibilities and Freedom to Act

• Interpret national guidance on NMC guidelines.
• Participate in clinical supervision.
• Maintain clinical and professional competencies in accordance with relevant statutory legislation and guidance regarding health professionals and their services.
• To participate in mandatory and statutory training requirements and keep a record of all training and other developmental activities.

Responsibility for Research & Development

• Ensure standards, protocols and policies are evidence based and applied to practice.
• Keep updated with current clinical issues thus always promoting best practice.
• Use research to inform practice.
• Participate in audits as appropriate.

General

The post holder will be required to have access to independent means of transport for work purposes to travel across SWFT and to other agencies.

Physical and Mental Effort

• The post holder will undertake people moving and handling on a daily basis. The handling of equipment e.g. hoists, is integral to the post and may be required to be undertaken in confined spaces within patients' homes.
• The post holder will be required to operate as a lone worker in accordance with WCH policies and procedures.
• The post holder may come into contact with bodily fluids including urine and faeces and exudate from wounds e.g. blood and pus.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• Mentor and Assessing Qualification or similar

Experience

• Experience of adult general nursing
• Experience of working in a team environment
• Experience of current developments in the NHS

Skills

• Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of equal opportunities
• Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need for confidentiality in all aspects of the role
• Computer Literate
• Evidence of ongoing professional development

Personal Qualities

• Able to work autonomously within the framework of a team
• Must be able to work on own initiative and be able to supervise other staff effectively
• Ability to be an effective communicator
• Excellent role model
• Ability to negotiate
• Ability to be self-motivated

Other

• Must be a non-smoker during working hours
• Must be willing to undertake a DBS to Enhanced / Standard level
• Must be legally entitled to work in this country
• Must be car owner/driver with full current driving licence with independent access to transport for work purposes
• Must be willing to work flexible hours including Bank Holidays and weekends and be able to participate in the cover of the evening service if required
• Must be willing to travel across SWFT

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust