Community Nurse

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust; Redditch; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking a motivated Community Nurse to join their Neighbourhood Team in Redditch. This part-time position (22.5 hours/week) involves providing essential care to patients in their homes and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. Candidates must be flexible, skilled in patient care, and hold a Registered Nurse qualification. The role offers a supportive environment with opportunities for professional development along with a comprehensive benefits package, ensuring a positive work-life balance.

Benefits

27 days leave plus bank holidays

Generous NHS pension

Flexible working opportunities

Strong maternity, paternity, and adoption support

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in community nursing and management of caseloads.
• 2 years post-registration experience required.
• Must be able to travel independently.

Responsibilities

• Provide optimal care to patients in their own home.
• Undertake clinical assessments and provide interventions.
• Act as a role model to colleagues and promote standards.

Skills

Ability to challenge poor behaviour

Clear communication in English

Basic IT skills

Flexible, lateral thinker

Team player

Education

Registered Nurse (RN1)

Accredited courses in palliative care, tissue viability, Diabetes

Job description

Go back Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Community Nurse

The closing date is 22 December 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Nurse to join the Neighbourhood Team in Redditch. 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.

If you would like to discuss informally if this is the right role for you, get in touch with Recruiting Manager which can be found on the top right-hand side of the advert.

This is a part time post working 22.5 hours per week.

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 patients 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 valuediversity 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

If you would like to know more, please visit our website.

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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.

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-centered 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.
• Assessmental 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 individual's 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

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to challenge poor behaviour
• Role modelling good behaviour that supports team working
• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
• Basic IT skills
• Flexible, lateral thinker
• 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

Additional Criteria

• Versatile and adaptable
• Team player
• Able to cope under pressure

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

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

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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