Band 5 Community Staff Nurse unplanned North

Transformationunitgm; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Birmingham is seeking a Band 5 Community Staff Nurse to join their dynamic team. The role focuses on providing care in patients' homes and requires a registered nurse with excellent communication and problem-solving skills. This position involves quick responses to urgent patient needs, ensuring independence and well-being through coordinated care within a multidisciplinary team.

Benefits

Extensive holidays

Agenda for Change pay with enhancements

Attractive relocation payment

Discounts for local and national retailers

Dedicated well-being services for all employees

Flexible working where possible

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with appropriate qualifications.
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Responsibilities

• Responding to patients with various health needs.
• Liaising with teams to provide nursing care.
• Working within a dynamic unplanned nursing team.

Skills

Communication

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Time management

IT literacy

Education

Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)

Mentor and assessor qualification or equivalent

Job description

Main area Adult Community Services Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Compressed hours

37.5 hours per week (weekends and bank holidays) Job ref 820-7238056-COM

Employer Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site North Unplanned Team Town Birmingham Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 25/06/2025 23:59

Band 5 Community Staff Nurse unplanned North

Band 5

Job overview

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***

Community-based working. Will need driving licence & access to a car.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our excellent East unplanned nursing team.

The team is based in Stechford but covers calls in all the East Birmingham wards and just over the borders into Solihull with Birmingham GPs

It has a dynamic and innovative approach to Nursing care.

It involves quick responses to patients in their own homes to manage and respond to urgent issues.

We are looking for a highly motivated applicant who is interested in meeting the challenge of working on the community with patients in the home setting. You will be working with a variety of disciplines within the multidisciplinary team to achieve the best outcomes for patients to ensure their independence and well being.

Main duties of the job

Responding quickly to patientswith a variety of health needs.

This involves problem solving, liaising with the unplanned team and the multi-disciplinary teams and providing nursing care to achieve best outcomes for patients.

Working for our organisation

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• Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The service will operate between the hours of 8am to 8pm over 7 days per week and the working pattern for the successful candidate will include weekend working and bank holiday periods. This post requires the successful candidates to be highly mobile so requires a full driving license and car available for work.

Person specification

• Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)
• Mentor and assessor qualification or equivalent
• Evidence of continued professional development relevant to role

Experience

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team setting

Skills/knowledge

• Ability to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of up to date evidence based clinical practice.
• Excellent communication Analytical skills and a problem solving approach
• IT literate
• Awareness of the complex needs of a multicultural, socially diverse population
• Effective time management

Personal Qualities

• Ability to work under pressure
• Effective Team Member Leadership and interpersonal qualities

Other Job Requirements

• Needs to be independently mobile through out the organisation. This post is assessed as require a Car driver
• Willing to work flexible hours including weekends and Bank Holidays as part of a rota.
• Ability to work across various sites in Birmingham

In accordance with UK Home Office requirements, Band 2 clinical and non-clinical roles and Band 3 Non-Clinical roles are not eligible for sponsorship.

Please note that the majority of non-clinical roles (Agenda for Change Band 3 - 5) with the exception of those which appear on this list - link , will not meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK.

All non-clinical roles (Agenda for Change Bands 6 - 9) that meet the prescribed salary threshold will be eligible for sponsorship.

The Trust will accept applications from candidates who can evidence their right to work in the UK or via alternative visa routes.

Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme

BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC are an advocate of diversity and strive to mirror the community we serve as much possible.

We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.

Promoting Workforce Equality

In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.

The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.

Flexible Working

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.

In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust acknowledges Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini etc; are powerful tools that can help you in various stages of your job application and how they can be used in certain circumstances during your application process with BCHC. You can read more about acceptable use on our internet pages here

Benefits of working for us:

• Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
• Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
• Discounts for local and national retailers
• Dedicated well-being services for all employees
• Flexible working where possible

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***