Community Nurse - Surrey Downs Health & Care

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust; Dorking; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Community Nurse to join their Dorking team. In this role, you'll provide exceptional nursing care in various settings, working closely with a multi-disciplinary team to meet diverse patient needs. The ideal candidate will be capable of offering compassionate, patient-centred care while also benefiting from professional development opportunities. Join us in making a difference in the community.

Qualifications

• Experience/knowledge relevant to particular post.
• Understanding of current issues affecting the NHS.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality nursing care to patients in their own homes, care homes, and clinics.
• Contribute to team management and innovative practice development.
• Assess individual care needs and implement holistic care packages.

Skills

Ability to assess, deliver and evaluate quality care

IT and data entry skills

Ability to organise own time efficiently

Ability to develop new skills appropriate to role

Education

1st level registration

Evidence of clinical competencies

Job description

Overview

NHS AfC: Band 5 | Main area: Surrey Downs Health & Care | Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5 | Contract: Permanent | Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Site: Medwyn Centre | Town: Dorking | Salary: £32,602 - £39,686 Pro Rata per Annum inc Fringe HCAS | Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 12/10/2025 23:59 | Interview date: 15/10/2025

Job overview

Surrey Downs Health & Care

Join our friendly and supportive Dorking team and make a real difference to patients in your local community. We’re looking for a committed Community Nurse to help us deliver outstanding, patient-centred care. Whether you’re newly qualified or an experienced nurse, we’d love to hear from you.

In this role, you’ll provide high-quality nursing care to patients in their own homes, care homes, and clinics. You’ll see a wide variety of conditions and needs, from wound care and palliative support to long-term condition management and rehabilitation, working closely with a skilled and multi-disciplinary team.

At Surrey Downs Health & Care, we’re committed to supporting your professional growth. You’ll benefit from regular supervision, ongoing training, and opportunities for development, as well as playing a key role in supporting student placements. We also offer a flexible working model across sites, giving you the chance to build both your skills and your career in community nursing.

Main duties of the job

To work within the team, contributing to team management and the development of innovative practice. To be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of holistic care packages.

Working for our organisation

Surrey Downs Health & Care provides care closer to home through our Community Nursing Teams, Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, and Specialist Services, working as part of an innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.

Our Community Nurses play a vital role in delivering person-centred care that crosses traditional boundaries. By working across GP practices, patients homes, care homes and clinics, we ensure that local people receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time.

The Surrey Downs Health & Care Partnership Brings Together

• The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices across Surrey Downs
• Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Surrey County Council

This collaboration means patients benefit from joined-up, seamless care. By working as one system, we can improve outcomes, reduce unnecessary hospital admissions, and make it easier for people to access the care and support they need.

Our shared values underpin everything we do in community nursing: providing outstanding, compassionate care and supporting people to remain well and independent within their own communities.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Work as part of the team undertaking lead responsibilities as negotiated and agreed with District Nurse
• Treat all patients as individuals, respecting their privacy and dignity at all times
• Assess individual care needs, implement and evaluate holistic programmes of care
• Involving, supporting, informing and educating family/carers
• Take every opportunity to promote health and wellbeing of the patient
• Develop effective communication and liaison systems
• Maintain clear and comprehensive, signed and contemporaneous records according to SDHC procedures
• Facilitate/undertake training and professional updating for team and students
• Act as an assessor and mentor to qualified and unqualified staff
• Maintain, develop and monitor standards of evidence based nursing care
• Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC guidelines
• Support/mentor team members and participate in clinical supervision activities
• Work without direct supervision and to maintain close liaison with the senior team member, deputising as required
• Be responsible and maintain timely patient care
• Be responsible for maintain data entry and other record keeping
• To work in co-operation and partnership with all other professionals and agencies involved in the care of the patient
• Be aware of and act upon when necessary, procedures that are in place to protect vulnerable individuals
• Participate in the SDHC Clinical Governance Strategy
• Participate in the SDHC Risk Management Strategy
• Undertake any such other duties which may be required from time to time as are consistent with the post
• Maintain own professional and clinical integrity in line with NMC guidelines
• Staff are employed to work within SDHC localities and may be reasonably requested to move base temporarily or on a more permanent basis, as requested by service needs.

Please refer to the job description and person specification for mode details.

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential Criteria

• 1st level registration
• Evidence of clinical competencies

Desirable criteria

• Willingness to complete appropriate courses
• Evidence of continued professional development

Experience

Essential criteria

• To have an understanding of current issues affecting the NHS
• Experience/knowledge relevant to particular post

Desirable criteria

• Relevant post registration experience
• Some community experience

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to assess, deliver and evaluate quality care
• IT and data entry skills
• Ability to organise own time efficiently
• Ability to develop new skills appropriate to role

Other

Essential criteria

• Car driver with a valid License to drive in UK with access to a car to use for business purposes
• Flexible
• Reliable
• Adapt positively to change

Desirable criteria

• Ability to work under pressure

Your application

Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References

You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date

In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting

You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS

We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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