Community Nurse | Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust; Welwyn; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare organization is looking for band 5 nurses to join their award-winning team in Welwyn, England. The role involves delivering high-quality nursing care to patients at home, preventing hospital admissions, and facilitating discharges. Applicants should be creative problem solvers with community nursing experience preferred. Excellent benefits include generous holiday allowance, pension schemes, and professional training opportunities. This is a rewarding position for those who value patient care and teamwork.

Benefits

5% high cost allowance supplement

27 days holiday rising to 33

One of the UK's best pension schemes

Special Leave for family and personal reasons

NHS Car Lease Scheme

Eye Care Vouchers

Employee Assistance Programme

NHS Discounts

Qualifications

• Must possess a full valid driving licence and access to a car for business use.
• Willingness to adapt and develop nursing skills.
• Understanding of current professional and community issues.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality nursing care to prevent hospital admissions.
• Facilitate patient discharge and manage long-term conditions.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Problem-solving

Community nursing experience

Ability to work on initiative

Job description

Could you be part of an innovative, caring and agile Community Nursing team? Do you want to work as part of an award‑winning team? Welwyn and Hatfield Integrated Care Team are winners of the Hertfordshire Community Trust Leading Lights awards for Demonstrating Fantastic Patient Care and are looking to recruit band 5 nurses to our award‑winning team. Hertfordshire Community Trust has a Good CQC rating acquired in May 2020 and we are working towards achieving an Outstanding rating.

We deliver high quality nursing care across the Welwyn and Hatfield locality to prevent admission to hospital, facilitate discharge, deliver planned nursing intervention and manage long‑term conditions.

The successful candidate would be supported to develop skills and join a team who are committed to demonstrating the trust values who care about each other as well as their patients.

We work collaboratively with our partnership organisations across East and North ICB, Hertfordshire Foundation Trust and Hertfordshire.

Our team is the Welwyn and Hatfield Locality.

The HCT Integrated Community Care Teams are committed to delivering high quality, evidence‑based nursing care to patients within their own homes and offer an integrated multidisciplinary approach in helping to support patient discharge and prevention of admission to hospital.

We offer a comprehensive induction programme and the opportunity to work in a friendly, dynamic, professional and caring team.

Successful candidates will need to have an ability to creatively problem solve and work on their own initiative and will need to demonstrate an understanding of current professional and community issues. Community nursing experience is preferred but there will be opportunities for training and development for the right applicants.

A full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

In return, we can offer you:

• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Special Leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme
• Eye Care Vouchers
• Employee Assistance Programme
• NHS Discounts

A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust. You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff.

We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision – Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities.

Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision.

We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages.

We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible – Apply now.

You’ve made a great decision to apply to join to HCT – we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.

Providing a high standard of patient care using evidence based framework.

Please see attached Job Description for full details.

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This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Dec 2025.