Community Nurse

Lincolnshire Community Health Services Nhs Trust; East Ferry; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Induction & Preceptorship programme

Job summary

Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust is recruiting Registered Nurses to join the Louth and Wolds District Nursing Team. The role is a full-time permanent post, requiring you to work autonomously and as part of a team, delivering care to patients in their homes, care homes and clinics.

You will assess care needs, plan, deliver and evaluate nursing care using evidence-based practice, with a robust induction and preceptorship programme supported by an experienced education team.

Qualifications

• Current NMC Registered Nurse in the UK.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development (CPD).
• Mentorship/preceptorship qualification and use in practice.

Responsibilities

• Travel to patients' homes and clinic settings as part of community nursing.
• Deliver and evaluate nursing care using evidence-based practice.
• Provide wound/continence care, palliative care and chronic disease management with MDT colleagues.
• Participate in induction and preceptorship programmes for new staff.

Skills

NMC Registration

Mentorship/Preceptorship

Research & Evidence-based care

Communication skills

Team working

Education

Post-registration nursing training (palliative care, wound care, elderly care, diabetes)

Job description

Job summary

Lincolnshire Community Health Service (LCHS) have an opportunity for Registered Nurses to join their Louth and Wolds District Nursing Team

We have a vacancy 1 full time permanent position

As a community staff nurse you will be required to work autonomously and as part of a team, delivering care to patients in their own homes, care homes and clinic settings. Successful candidates will be responsible for assessing care needs, and the planning, delivery and evaluation of nursing care using innovative evidence based practice.

Main duties of the job

Community nursing is exceptionally rewarding as it allows wonderful therapeutic relationships to be developed with patients in their own homes. Working in this capacity embodies the person centred care approach and allows patients to truly be at the centre of care delivery.

The skillset of a community nurse is vast and non-exhaustive requiring knowledge and expertise in a range of areas. Examples of interventions provided are wound management, continence care, palliative care, medication administration and long term condition management. Close working with the MDT (Social Workers, GP's and Allied Health Professionals) to ensure that patients care is effectively co-ordinated, demonstrates a positive impact on our patients.

For more information about the role of a community nurse watch the following video from The Queen's Nursing Institute

The Work of Community Nurses - The Queen's Nursing Institute (qni.org.uk)

About us

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS' workforce.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an 'earn while you learn' apprenticeship programme.

Details

Date posted: 30 October 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 5

Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year Per Annum, Pro rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number: 818-NUR329-A

Closing date: 05 November 2026

Job responsibilities

As this is a community post, you must be able to travel to patients homes and clinic settings. Due to the rurality of Lincolnshire some areas are not well covered by public transport therefore having access to transport is essential.

The service works through the hours of 8:00am to 6:30pm 7 days a week and is covered by variable shift patterns of Early shifts 8:00am -4:00pm, Mid shifts 9.00-17.00 and late shifts of 10:30am - 6:30pm.

The Community Nursing service delivers a 12 week induction programme for all new staff. We also offer a robust preceptorship and clinical skills programme with an experienced clinical education team. This provides peer support in addition to the requisite training required to fulfil the role to its true potential.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you will need, you are encouraged to look at the Job Description and Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading and refer back to these documents when completing your application.

You should use your application form to show that you meet all or most of the essential criteria outlined in the person specification for the position. If you fail to demonstrate this in your answers, or you are unable to meet the criteria, it is unlikely you will be shortlisted for an interview for that post.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Ability to demonstrate current 1st level UK NMC adult nurse registration
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Demonstration of mentorship, supervisor or assessor qualification and its use in practice
• Further relevant training e.g. palliative care, wound care, elderly care, diabetes

Desirable

• Evidence of completed leadership modules/qualification
• Evidence of V100 or V150 Community Practitioner prescribing course undertaken
• Post registration qualifications e.g. palliative care, care of the elderly, wound care, continence or other relevant post remigration qualifications

Experience

Essential

• Can demonstrate experience of assessment, care planning and care delivery
• Experience of delegation and supervision of others
• Evidence of the application of research and evidence based care
• Evidence of experience in teaching / disseminating knowledge and skills
• Experience of team working

Desirable

• Experience of health promotion/coaching strategies

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrates a range of clinical skills pertinent to area of practice
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills including record keeping
• Demonstrates IT and electronic patient record systems

Desirable

• Demonstrates ability to undertake practice audit

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust

Address: Wolds and Louth DN Team, Louth County Hospital, Louth, LN11 0EU, United Kingdom

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