Community Nurse

NHS; Staines-upon-Thames; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated community nursing team in a forward-thinking organization that values compassion and excellence. As a Band 5 Community Nurse, you will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality care to patients in their homes and care settings across a diverse range of neighborhoods. This position offers excellent training and development opportunities, ensuring you are well-supported in your professional journey. With a focus on patient-centered care, you will engage with a multidisciplinary team to implement care plans and promote health in the community. If you are passionate about nursing and ready to make a difference, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

NHS pay and pensions

Fringe High-Cost Allowance

Excellent training and development opportunities

Access to care certificate and apprenticeships

Qualifications

• 1st Level Nurse Registration required.
• Willingness to undertake further education around management of long-term conditions.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for delivering patient care and managing service provision.
• Communicates effectively with patients and multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

1st Level Nurse Registration

Communication Skills

Planning / Organisational Skills

Ability to work across a seven-day week

Ability to undertake nursing skills

Education

Adult Nursing qualification

Tools

Electronic Patient Record System

Job description

Req#: B9074-25-0015-2?language=en&page=83&sort=publicationDateDesc

Job summary

Community Nurse Band 5

CSH Surrey

The Integrated Neighbourhood Teams are looking for a Band 5 Community Nurse to join our community nursing team across the neighbourhoods of Ashford & Stanwell, Staines, Sunbury & Shepperton, and Egham & Virginia Water.

The Community Team visit patients in their own home as well as care homes. We offer excellent opportunities for training and development of both your clinical and leadership skills. The team has experienced Senior District Nurses who will ensure that you have the necessary support for your personal development. The community nursing service works over a 7-day week 8.00am to 8.00pm offering a variable shift pattern and includes weekend and bank holiday working.

This post requires an Adult Nursing qualification. Newly qualified nurses are encouraged to apply for this position.

You will be supported with a comprehensive induction and training package as needed, to help you settle in, with the time and opportunity to get to know the people on your caseload, along with development opportunities.

If you have the necessary skills, experience and qualities to help us to put patients first, please contact us for an informal discussion or to arrange a visit.

Please note we do NOT offer UKVI sponsorship, all applicants require right to work in the UK.

Main duties of the job

Please see the attached job description and personal specification for more details and requirements for the role

About us

CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surreys largest and longest established NHS community services provider, so our 1500+ employees get NHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe High-Cost Allowance of 5%.

Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including the care certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access to the Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and leadership courses and programmes.

We CARE about our staff though through our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Our active employee council called The Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues' voices are heard at Board level. CSH is a diverse organisation, if you are a passionate, person-focused individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job you are applying for and if you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact the named individual for this advert, or our recruitment team.

Date posted

24 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£31,469 to £38,308 a year inclusive of 5% High Cost Area allowance per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B9074-25-0015-2

Job locations

Staines Health Centre

Knowle Green

Staines-upon-Thames

Middlesex

TW181XD




Walton Community Hospital

Rodney Road

Walton-on-thames

Surrey

KT12 3LD




Job description

Job responsibilities

Purpose

Responsible for the delivery of care and for managing service provision in accordance with national and local priorities, organisation policies, procedures and guidelines and in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Principal duties to include:

Participate in assessment and care planning of patient care in conjunction with the District Nurse

Implements and evaluates care and treatment in agreement with the patient and as defined in the care plan escalates any deviation from the care plan or change in condition to the District Nurse / GP accordingly

Communicates effectively with patients, carers and all members of the multidisciplinary team

Prioritises daily work in line with clinical / patient need

Maintains accurate and legible patient records in line with professional and organisational requirements this includes contemporary paper records and electronic patient record system

Implements and works to ensure evidence based care / best practice

Actively participates and contributes to team meetings and daily handover

Initiates health promotion activities with individuals, patients and carers

Takes responsibility for a defined caseload in the absence of the District Nurse, under the direction of the Practice Teacher / Team Leader

Actively involved in the development and implementation of community nursing service developments and initiatives

Participates in clinical audit and the implementation of changes to ways of working / clinical practice as a result of findings, recommendations and action plans

Participates in risk assessment and promotes the safety and well-being of patients, staff and any other persons at all times and assist in ensuring a safe work environment

Ensure that all complaints, untoward incidents, accidents and areas of clinical risk are identified and reported to the District Nurse in accordance with the organisation policies

Job description

Job responsibilities

Purpose

Responsible for the delivery of care and for managing service provision in accordance with national and local priorities, organisation policies, procedures and guidelines and in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Principal duties to include:

Participate in assessment and care planning of patient care in conjunction with the District Nurse

Implements and evaluates care and treatment in agreement with the patient and as defined in the care plan escalates any deviation from the care plan or change in condition to the District Nurse / GP accordingly

Communicates effectively with patients, carers and all members of the multidisciplinary team

Prioritises daily work in line with clinical / patient need

Maintains accurate and legible patient records in line with professional and organisational requirements this includes contemporary paper records and electronic patient record system

Implements and works to ensure evidence based care / best practice

Actively participates and contributes to team meetings and daily handover

Initiates health promotion activities with individuals, patients and carers

Takes responsibility for a defined caseload in the absence of the District Nurse, under the direction of the Practice Teacher / Team Leader

Actively involved in the development and implementation of community nursing service developments and initiatives

Participates in clinical audit and the implementation of changes to ways of working / clinical practice as a result of findings, recommendations and action plans

Participates in risk assessment and promotes the safety and well-being of patients, staff and any other persons at all times and assist in ensuring a safe work environment

Ensure that all complaints, untoward incidents, accidents and areas of clinical risk are identified and reported to the District Nurse in accordance with the organisation policies

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 1st Level Nurse Registration (live registered with the NMC)
• Willingness to undertake further education around management of long-term conditions.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable

• Previous community nursing experience.

Communication

Essential

• Team worker and ability to work alone
• Ability to listen to and communicate with patients and carers in a compassionate and caring manner
• Presentation skills or teaching to individuals e.g., patients and to small groups for example students

Experience

Essential

• Knowledge of recent developments within health and social care.
• Keeps up to date with evidence-based practice and research related to nursing and health care in the community
• Ability to operate community equipment
• Ability to identify and pass on urgent client information to the District Nurse / Team Leader.

Skills

Essential

• Planning / Organisational Skills
• Ability to work across a seven-day week
• Ability to undertake nursing skills and to prioritise visits in accordance with patient need.
• Ability to organise own workload without direct supervision.
• Ability to input data manually and electronically according to organisational policies.
• Work within agreed Policies and procedures.
• Physical Skills
• Ability to travel effectively and efficiently within the locality and at times, across NW Surrey.
• Dexterity to enable clinical skills to be performed, i.e., removal of sutures, venepuncture & IV therapy

Other

Essential

• Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day.
• Ability to travel across bases and patients homes
• Flexible and adaptable
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 1st Level Nurse Registration (live registered with the NMC)
• Willingness to undertake further education around management of long-term conditions.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable

• Previous community nursing experience.

Communication

Essential

• Team worker and ability to work alone
• Ability to listen to and communicate with patients and carers in a compassionate and caring manner
• Presentation skills or teaching to individuals e.g., patients and to small groups for example students

Experience

Essential

• Knowledge of recent developments within health and social care.
• Keeps up to date with evidence-based practice and research related to nursing and health care in the community
• Ability to operate community equipment
• Ability to identify and pass on urgent client information to the District Nurse / Team Leader.

Skills

Essential

• Planning / Organisational Skills
• Ability to work across a seven-day week
• Ability to undertake nursing skills and to prioritise visits in accordance with patient need.
• Ability to organise own workload without direct supervision.
• Ability to input data manually and electronically according to organisational policies.
• Work within agreed Policies and procedures.
• Physical Skills
• Ability to travel effectively and efficiently within the locality and at times, across NW Surrey.
• Dexterity to enable clinical skills to be performed, i.e., removal of sutures, venepuncture & IV therapy

Other

Essential

• Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day.
• Ability to travel across bases and patients homes
• Flexible and adaptable

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 (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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 (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

CSH Surrey

Address

Staines Health Centre

Knowle Green

Staines-upon-Thames

Middlesex

TW181XD




Employer's website

https://www.cshsurrey.co.uk/about-us/about-csh-surrey (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

CSH Surrey

Address

Staines Health Centre

Knowle Green

Staines-upon-Thames

Middlesex

TW181XD




Employer's website

https://www.cshsurrey.co.uk/about-us/about-csh-surrey (Opens in a new tab)

National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.