Community Charge Nurse

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Nurse to provide clinical and operational leadership within the community nursing team. The post holder will support the Integrated Senior Clinical Lead to deliver safe, patient-centred care and coordinate management for patients with complex needs.

The role focuses on delivering proactive, holistic care, promoting independence and self-management, and ensuring timely, coordinated access to services through

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and operational leadership within the community nursing team.
• Manage and coordinate a caseload of patients with complex health needs.
• Undertake holistic assessments, care planning, implementation, and evaluation of care.
• Support patients to remain independent and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
• Work closely with GPs, Social Care, therapists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure coordinated care.
• Provide clinical advice, supervision, and support to junior staff and students.
• Monitor patient safety, risk management, safeguarding, and clinical quality standards.
• Deputise for the Band 7 Integrated Senior Clinical Lead when required.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Community nursing

Caseload management

Holistic assessment

Care planning

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Job description

The Community Charge Nurse provides clinical and operational leadership within the community nursing team, supporting the Integrated Senior Clinical Lead (Band 7) to deliver safe, effective, and patient-centred care. The post holder is responsible for day-to-day team leadership, promoting a positive and well-led culture, and supporting service development and quality improvement. Working collaboratively with GPs, Practice Nurses, Social Care professionals, and the wider multidisciplinary team, the Community Sister will coordinate and facilitate the management of patients with complex health needs, particularly those at risk of hospital admission. The role focuses on delivering proactive, holistic care, promoting independence, self-management, and patient choice. The post holder will utilise advanced clinical assessment and decision-making skills across the community caseload and Single Point of Access, ensuring patients receive timely intervention, coordinated care, and access to the most appropriate services. The Community Sister will also provide clinical expertise, guidance, and support to colleagues across the wider team.,

• Providing clinical and operational leadership within the community nursing team.
• Managing and coordinating a caseload of patients with complex health needs.
• Undertaking holistic assessments, care planning, implementation, and evaluation of care.
• Supporting patients to remain independent and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
• Working closely with GPs, Social Care, therapists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure coordinated care.
• Providing clinical advice, supervision, and support to junior staff and students.
• Monitoring patient safety, risk management, safeguarding, and clinical quality standards.
• Participating in the Single Point of Access (SPA) and referral triage processes where applicable.
• Promoting health education, self-management, and patient choice.
• Supporting service development, quality improvement initiatives, and achievement of organisational objectives.
• Maintaining accurate clinical records and ensuring compliance with professional and organisational policies.
• Deputising for the Band 7 Integrated Senior Clinical Lead when required.
  Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care. We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support. Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence