Community Nurse - Stratton Community Nursing Team

NHS; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Cornwall is seeking a Community Nurse to join the Stratton Community Nursing Team. The role involves providing evidence-based care to patients in their home environment, requiring strong skills in nursing and IT. Candidates must be registered nurses and willing to manage travel across the service area. This fixed term role offers the opportunity to support the health and wellbeing of the community while gaining valuable experience in a supportive setting.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with evidence of recent professional development.
• Must act as a mentor for student university placements.
• Willingness to submit to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care without supervision.
• Support patients and carers in a home environment.
• Work flexibly with locality teams as needed.

Skills

IT skills (Word, Excel, email, internet)

Evidence based nursing care

Ability to handle stress

Knowledge of nursing developments

Education

Registered Nurse (Adult)

Current Professional Registration - NMC

Mentoring qualification or willingness to achieve

Post-registration diploma or working towards a degree

Tools

Nursing recording systems

Job description

Community Nurse - Stratton Community Nursing Team

Closing date: 06 January 2026

We are looking for a caring, motivated and dynamic community nurse to join our friendly, professional team. You will be part of the Stratton Community Nursing Team and will be based at Stratton Hospital, covering Bude and the surrounding area.

Shift patterns are 0800–1600 and 1400–2200. This is a fixed term post until January 2027.

Main duties of the job

This is a community-based role that requires frequent travel to various locations throughout the county, including areas that may not be accessible by public transportation. Successful candidates will need to demonstrate how they will manage these travel requirements.

Following an initial induction and ongoing clinical supervision, you will be responsible for: assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care, without direct supervision, to patients, carers and relatives within their home environment. The aim is to enable them to enjoy maximum independence and optimum quality of life. To work in partnership with patients and carers to offer support and advice and promote informed choice. To work autonomously, providing effective, evidence-based care in line with competency and training record and organisational policies, procedures and guidelines. To support all locality teams by working in a flexible way. Moving to work with the team in most need on a daily, weekly or monthly basis as service provision demands.

About us

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse (Adult)
• Evidence of recent relevant professional development
• To act as a mentor for student university placements. Having the mentoring qualification or being willing to work towards this qualification and attending mentorship updates as required.
• Current Professional Registration - NMC

Desirable

• Hold a post-registration diploma or be working towards a degree

Skills and Aptitude

Essential

• IT skills to include use of Word, Excel, email, internet, recording systems
• The ability to provide skilled, evidence based nursing care to a wide range of patients
• Ability to deal with patients and carers who are under stress.
• Awareness of and adherence to policies including lone worker and manual handling policies
• Current knowledge of developments in nursing and healthcare in general.

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

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Stratton Hospital

Hospital Road

Stratton, Bude

EX23 9BR

Employer's website

https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)