Community Nurse

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust; Kidderminster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A local NHS Trust in Kidderminster is seeking a part-time Community Nurse to provide high-quality care in the community. The role involves home visits, managing a caseload, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should be enthusiastic, innovative, and have the ability to work autonomously. The Trust values compassionate care and offers flexible working hours, generous leave, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

27 days leave plus bank holidays

Generous NHS pension

Flexible working opportunities

Supportive staff networks

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Variety of evidence-based clinical skills.
• Confidence to teach patients and team members.
• Competence in catheterisation and IV therapy.

Responsibilities

• Conduct home visits providing nursing interventions.
• Manage a caseload in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team.
• Support pre-registration students and new staff.

Skills

Effective communication

Team teamwork

Problem-solving

Time management

Ability to work autonomously

Compassionate care

Education

Registered Nurse (RN1)

Accredited courses in palliative care

Accredited courses in tissue viability

Accredited courses in Diabetes

Job description

Go back Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Community Nurse

The closing date is 04 January 2026

River Neighbourhood Team is a friendly, supportive, and hardworking team who are looking for enthusiastic individuals to join us. The team operates from 7:30am 6:30pm, Monday to Sunday including bank holidays. Shift patterns include 07:30-15:30, 08:30-16:30 and 10:30-18:30 on a rota basis. Flexible working opportunities such as compressed hours are available.

We are looking to recruit a community nurse on a part time basis, who is innovative and keen to join the team in supporting us to deliver high quality care, and to continue our development of integrated care in the community. The role is varied and rewarding.

We are looking for a passionate nurse who is excited by change and are keen to help shape a new way of delivering nursing care in the community. We are a team of health care professionals who are focused on compassionate care. We work closely with our GPs and work hard at developing relationships with other primary care services, drawing on the skills of our MDT colleagues to manage complex patients and ensure our services are responsive and patient centred.

Main duties of the job

The role will require:

• Ability to work flexibly on a rota basis
• An enthusiastic, motivated, and innovative thinker to become part of a primary care facing community.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage your own caseload and work within a multi‑disciplinary team.
• Ability to problem‑solve and manage time effectively
• Ability to communicate effectively with others at all levels
• Experience of working in a fast paced and varied environment
• Ability to travel to deliver care services

Your typical working day will include home visits for adults over 18 years needing a range of nursing interventions. These include caring for people reaching the end of their life, managing their pain relief and other symptoms in a sensitive and compassionate manner, all types of wound care – post operative wounds, leg ulcers, pressure ulcers and complex dressing regimes – you will become expert in tissue viability. Other skills will be in IV therapy and other injectable drug administration and holistic assessment of a person's needs, taking into account their environment and social circumstances.

Back at your base, you will be involved in team meetings, goal/care planning and evaluation and handover meetings. As part of the role, you will support pre‑registration students in a supervisor and / or assessor capacity. You will also be required to support band 4s and HCAs. Your input is a valuable part of the team's work.

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.
• Take responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the Senior Community Nurse when required.
• For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

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, and clinical governance.
• Competence in male and suprapubic catheterisation.
• Venepuncture and IV therapy.
• Cannulation.
• Management of syringe drivers.

Additional Criteria

• Self‑motivated and able to motivate others.
• Team player.
• Able to cope under pressure.
• Compassion and empathy skills.
• Able to meet the travel requirements of the role.
• Willingness to undertake further training.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to challenge poor behaviour.
• Role modelling good behaviour that supports teamworking.
• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback.
• Ability to praise and be supportive to others.
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly in English in both written and verbal formats.
• Ability to understand professional and ethical issues.
• Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance.

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.

Experience

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

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.

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