Community Nurse

Integrated Care System; Bromsgrove; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Bromsgrove is seeking a Community Nurse for a fixed term of 12 months. The role involves providing care in patients' homes, working within a multidisciplinary team. Candidates must have a Registered Nurse qualification and at least two years of community nursing experience, with the ability to work autonomously. The position offers competitive pay, flexible working, and a supportive environment.

Benefits

27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 33 days with long service

Generous NHS pension

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN1) qualification is required.
• 2 years of post-registration experience in community nursing.
• Experience in managing caseloads.

Responsibilities

• Provide optimal care to patients in their homes.
• Act as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated team.
• Manage own caseload in absence of Senior Community Nurse.

Job description

Go back Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Community Nurse

The closing date is 24 August 2025

An exciting opportunity hasarisen for a Community Nurse to join the Neighbourhood Team in Bromsgrove for afixed term 12 month period. This will give you the rewarding opportunity toprovide optimal care to patients in their own home. Shift patterns are between07.30-18.30. Flexible workingopportunities are available, and we would welcome you to discuss these optionsat interview.

We are looking for a highly motivated, flexible team player with astrong, quality driven patient focus and an ability to work through change toembed new ways of delivering care. The successful candidate will have experience in working within amulti-disciplinary team. Inreturn we offer a great team environment, learning and developmentopportunities and supervision support.

The teams consist of CommunityNurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Healthcare Assistants andadmin staff with GP, paramedic and social care colleagues working closelyalongside. This enables the teams deliver planned nursing, therapy and admissionavoidance/supported hospital discharge interventions to the adult patientpopulation of Redditch and the surrounding areas.

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

For an informal discussion, get in touch with RecruitingManager.

If you wish to be considered for a secondment please gain permission fromyour Substantive Manager before applying.

Main duties of the job

A typical day ascommunity nurse may start with greeting a diabetic patient and administeringtheir insulin, followed by supporting patients at the end of their life toensure gold standard care is delivered. You may then visit patients to dress aleg ulcer or post op wound, followed by changing a catheter, to flushing apatients central line. Following a morning of visits you will return to theoffice for your team handover, this gives you the opportunity to discusscomplex situations with your colleagues and undertake clinical supervision. Youmay then be called out to an urgent care response visit where a patient needsto be seen and assessed within 2 hours. No day is the same within communitynursing and each day is as rewarding as the next, whether youve healed a legulcer or given a patient the best possible care at the end of their life. Onething 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 hospitalsand community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental healthand learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people ofall ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexibleworking 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 valuediversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures,and ethnicities.

What we offer;

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you workunsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit ourwebsite.

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Job responsibilities

The post holder will:

Behaveconsistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote theseon day to day basis.

Act as a rolemodel to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards ofprofessionalism.

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

Work as anautonomous practitioner within the integrated team providing rapid and plannedassessment and treatment interventions to patients in their own homes or othercommunity settings to enable patients to maximise their independence, healthand wellbeing and remain in their own homes for as long as possible. This willbe achieved through a combination of hands on clinical skills and knowledge totreat, educate and support patients on a designated caseload and by workingwith patients and their carers to assess, plan and implement appropriatepackages of care.

Regularly takeresponsibility for the caseload in the absence of the Senior Community Nurse.

For full details of the duties and criteriafor the role please refer to the job description and person specificationattached.

Person Specification

Additional Criteria

• Able to meet the travel requirements of the role
• An ability to work in a variety of settings
• Willingness to undertake further training

Experience

• Experience gained during Pre-Registration training
• 2 years post registration experience
• Community nursing experience
• Experience of management of caseloads

Knowledge

• Variety of evidence based clinical skills
• Confidence to teach student nurses, trainee nursing associates, patients, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team
• Understanding of evidence based nursing, multidisciplinary working, clinical governance
• Competence in male and suprapubic catheterisation
• Venepuncture and IV therapy
• Cannulation
• Management of syringe drivers

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN1)
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
• Accredited courses in palliative care, tissue viability, diabetes

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Basic IT skills
• Flexible, lateral thinker
• Proven ability to motivate others
• Able to work competently without supervision and set own priorities
• Responsible for own professional development
• Ability to understand professional and ethical issues
• Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance

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

£31,049 to £37,796 a yearpro rata for part time