Community Nurse

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Andover; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Band 5 Community Staff Nurse to join their friendly team. The successful candidate will manage a community caseload, ensuring high-quality care in various settings, including patients' homes. Ideal for nurses starting their community nursing career or those looking to progress, the role emphasizes patient safety and collaboration. The Trust prides itself on delivering comprehensive mental and physical healthcare, upholding its CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with RGN qualification.
• Must hold a current UK or EU driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality care within various community settings.
• Manage a defined community caseload for GP Practices.
• Prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support timely discharges.

Skills

Planning person-centred needs

Organising resources

Multi-professional working

Managing and prioritising workload

Demonstrating initiative

Enthusiastic and motivated

Ability to work on own initiative

Knowledge of working with Students

Education

Registered Qualification (RGN)

Current (UK/EU) Driving Licence

Job description

Community Nurse

Closing date: 25 January 2026

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Band 5 Community Staff Nurse into our friendly and supportive team. You will contribute to the provision of high quality care, within a variety of community settings, which include the patient's home and clinic settings.

Working within Professional guidelines and accountability, the post-holder will have responsibility for the management of a defined community caseload for a group of GP Practices as part of the Integrated Care Team.

The post holder will have responsibility for managing, co‑ordinating and delegating work ensuring referrals are dealt with according to clinical need, holistic assessments and care plans are recorded in line with Trust and Professional record keeping standards and clinical care at all times meets acceptable standards of patient safety and quality outcomes.

The post holder will be required to work with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability. A primary aim of the role is to prevent unnecessary admission of patients to an acute hospital and support timely discharge into the community.

Suitable if you are either a nurse looking for your first job in community nursing or are looking to continue or progress your community nursing career.

Main duties of the job

Act at all times with compassion, to be committed to delivering high quality care, use effective communication, be competent and have courage when needed.

Participate in the holistic assessment, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for patients in the home, without direct supervision.

Recognise and respond to the need of appropriate referral to offer members of the community care team or external organisations including appropriate escalation of potential Safeguarding risks.

Inform the Integrated Clinical Lead, or Integrated Senior Clinical Lead, of any concerns with patients, relatives, visitors or staff that may compromise patient care.

Develop and maintain constructive working relationships and liaise effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team so that patients needs are met.

Act as a role model in the promotion of person‑centred practice.

Practice and promote safe and effective record keeping in line with trust policies and professional standards.

Demonstrate competence and confidence in clinical practice: this includes all clinical procedures that are relevant/specialist to the area.

Recognise own limitations in the provision of clinical care and urgency of patient needs, referring to other healthcare professionals accordingly and is accountable for his/her own action.

Manage conflicts and the reactions of patients, families and carers seeking the support of seniors.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone – if, as a potential candidate, you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team – detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working – all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications

• Registered Qualification (RGN)
• Current (UK/EU) Driving Licence

Experience

• Experience of planning person‑centred needs
• Experience of organising resources relating to patient needs (e.g. equipment, dressings, etc.)
• Experience of multi‑professional working
• Ability to manage and prioritise workload.
• Demonstrate initiative in resolving issues and problems.
• Enthusiastic and well‑motivated
• Car driver and own transport
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Knowledge of working with Students

Additional Criteria

• See Person Spec
• See Person Spec

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.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust