Community Nurse

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

Flexible working

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust is seeking a Community Nurse to join the Neighbourhood Team in Bromsgrove. You will deliver nursing care at patients' homes, supporting recovery and preventing admissions, with shift patterns from 07:30 to 18:30 and flexible working options.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, with opportunities for learning and supervision, travel is required, and you will contribute to high-quality, patient-centred care across Redditch and

Qualifications

• Registered nursing qualification with current NMC registration.
• Experience in community or district nursing preferred.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team and in patients' homes.

Responsibilities

• Autonomous practitioner delivering rapid and planned assessment and treatment in patients' homes.
• Maintain high standards of patient care, privacy and dignity in line with NMC Code.
• Manage caseload, support complex needs, and provide supervision and handover within the team.

Skills

Registered Nurse

Community nursing

Patient care

Teamwork

Education

Nursing degree (RN)

Job description

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Community Nurse

The closing date is 11 November 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Nurse to join the Neighbourhood Team in Bromsgrove. This will give you the rewarding opportunity to provide optimal care to patients in their own home. Shift patterns are between 07.30-18.30. Flexible working opportunities are available and we would welcome you to discuss these options at interview.

The teams consist of Community Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Healthcare Assistants and admin staff with GP, paramedic and social care colleagues working closely alongside. This enables the teams deliver planned nursing, therapy and admission avoidance/supported hospital discharge interventions to the adult patient population of Redditch and the surrounding areas.

We are looking for a highly motivated, flexible team player with a strong, quality driven patient focus and an ability to work through change to embed new ways of delivering care. The successful candidate will have experience in working within a multi-disciplinary team. In return we offer a great team environment, learning and development opportunities and supervision support.

Due to the nature of the posts the applicant must be able to travel independently.

Applicants must read the attached guidance notes before submitting your application for full understanding of Trust requirements.

Main duties of the job

A typical day as community nurse may start with greeting a diabetic patient and administering their insulin, followed by supporting patients at the end of their life to ensure gold standard care is delivered. You may then visit a few patients to dress a leg ulcer or post op wound, followed by changing a catheter to flushing a patient's central line. Following a morning of visits you will return to the office for your team handover, this gives you the opportunity to discuss complex situations with your colleagues and undertake clinical supervision. You may then be called out to an urgent care response visit where a patient needs to be seen and assessed within 2 hours. No day is the same within the community and each day is as rewarding as the next, whether you've healed a leg ulcer or given a patient the best possible care at the end of their life. One thing we promise you is that community nursing is never boring!

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer;

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

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Job responsibilities

The post holder will:

Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on day to day basis.

Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.

Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.

• Work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated team providing rapid and planned assessment and treatment interventions to patients in their own homes or other community settings to enable patients to maximise their independence, health and wellbeing and remain in their own homes for as long as possible. This will be achieved through a combination of hands on clinical skills and knowledge to treat, educate and support patients on a designated caseload and by working with patients and their carers to assess, plan and implement appropriate packages of care.

Regularly take responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the Senior Community Nurse.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The post holder will have competencies in all of the following areas and will:

Clinical

Work within the NMC Code.

Be responsible for the initial assessment and review of patients, across a broad spectrum of clinical conditions, considering the holistic needs of patients, under the direction of the senior nurse.

Provide clinical care, treatment, advice and interventions, including the transcribing and prescribing of medication if appropriate, through holistic assessment of patient need; and then planning, implementing and evaluating a person centred care plan as appropriate.

Be responsible for admitting and discharging patients from the caseload.

Undertake continuing health care checklist and fast track applications of on-going nursing need and where eligible commission packages of care from external agencies.

Ensure clinical practice is patient-focussed and evidence-based, in accordance with NMC code and scope for professional practice.

Assess mental capacity and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.

Actively contribute to the task of monitoring and evaluating standards of patient care, seeking to continuously improve the quality of care.

Ensure care provided maintains the individuals privacy and dignity, values diversity and respects cultural and individual rights and choices.

Delegate appropriately to more junior staff

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN1)
• Accredited Courses in Palliative care, tissue viability, diabetes

Experience

• Experience gained during Pre-Registration Training
• 2 years post registration experience
• Community Nursing Experience

Knowledge

• Variety of evidence based clinical skills

Skills & Abilities

• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats

Additional Criteria

• Able to meet the travel requirements of the role

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.

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust