Community Registered Nurse

Central And North West London Nhs Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package

Inner London weighting

Training and career development

Research opportunities

Flexible working patterns

Career progression

Job summary

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Band 5 Community Registered Nurse in Camden for a full-time role within the West Integrated Neighbourhood Team. You will join a seven-day-a-week nursing team delivering community healthcare with support from an Operational Lead.

The role focuses on autonomous community care, complex case management, and collaboration with other teams to improve patient outcomes. Flexible working patterns are possible.

Qualifications

• NMC registered or awaiting pin eligibility to practice.
• Numeracy skills for safe medicines administration.
• Willingness to undertake further studies as required.
• Commitment to continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality nursing care to housebound patients in the community.
• Undertake holistic assessments and review care needs for a designated caseload.
• Supervise junior staff and students; work with specialist teams across services.
• Maintain accurate records and ensure safety and quality in every visit.
• Engage in continuous improvement and collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Multidisciplinary communication

Care planning delivery

Autonomous community practice

CPD and learning

Numeracy skills

Education

NMC Registered nurse (Adult) or awaiting pin

Job description

Job summary

Band 5 Community Registered Nurse - Camden, Full-time

An exciting opportunity has become available in the West Integrated Neighbourhood Team for a Band 5 nurse to join our Camden Integrated Community Healthcare (CICH) team. We are looking for a Registered Nurse to work in a skill-mixed, seven-day-a-week nursing team. The team is supported by an overall Operational Lead in one of our five Integrated Locality Teams.

As a Community Nurse, you will provide nursing interventions to a range of housebound patients and help to manage their care supported by a skilled team of nurses. We are proactive in looking for enthusiastic and skilled nurses who will facilitate the delivery of excellent community nursing care, enjoy our new ways of working and who want to learn and excel in their career.

Following the NHS long term plan, CICH is proud to lead on putting neighbourhoods at the heart of integrated care. The service is set up to deliver health interventions within the framework of the neighbourhood model, working in partnership with other key primary care providers and the local voluntary care sector organisations. This role will be based at West Integrated Neighbourhood team based at Belsize Priory Health Centre, however the post holder would be expected to work across Camden DN service according to the needs of the service.

Main duties of the job

Your role will include providing high-quality care for patients in a community setting. You will work closely with other nursing and therapy staff to care for a designated caseload of patients. This will include undertaking holistic assessments, reviewing patient nursing care needs and supporting junior staff and students as needed. We have a range of Practice Development and Professional Leads who are on hand for supervision and support. You will work alongside Complex Care Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Rehabilitation assistants, Pharmacy technicians, students, and colleagues within Social Care, Mental Health, the Voluntary Sector, and General Practice.

You will work with our specialist teams i.e. Evening and Overnight Nursing team, Rapid Response, Palliative Care, Tissue Viability, Bladder and Bowel, Community Stroke and Neurology, Respiratory, Heart Failure and Diabetes teams and in-patient wards.

You will need NMC registration and have passion for learning and delivering the best nursing care. Community experience is not essential, but you will need to demonstrate an understanding of autonomous working in the community, with evidence of transferable skills.

About us

Our nurses enjoy their experience of visiting patients in their own homes and building a rapport. They report feeling honoured to build such close professional relationships with their team and patients alike. There is no typical day in district nursing as every visit requires a different set of skills and approach. The variety keeps the job interesting and the learning never stops.

Benefits of working as a nurse for CNWL Camden:

• Substantial relocation package if eligible
• Inner London weighting
• Training and career development opportunities
• Opportunities for research and audit to support innovative practice
• Open to flexible working patterns
• Good opportunity for progression

Camden is a vibrant home to one of London’s most visited tourist attractions: the markets, streets and shops that have grown around Camden Lock and its associated music venues. Camden, as a borough, is diverse, containing Hampstead Heath and its famous swimming ponds, Holborn and parts of the West End, as well as a very colourful culture, ethnic makeup, and a very wide socio-economic make-up.

Details

Date posted: 28 October 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 5

Salary: £38,488 to £46,852 a year Per annum incl. HCAS

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 333-G-CC-1624

Job locations: Belsize Priory Health Centre, 1st Floor, The Abbey Centre, 172A Belsize Road, London, NW6 4BJ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• keeping the people who use our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective clinical assessments
• Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalating concerns when necessary
• Escalating safety concerns and, by doing so, acting as effective advocates for those who use our service.
• Being open and transparent about their own practice
• Supervising the work of others
• Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made.
• Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement.
• Maintaining accurate, legible, comprehensive records.
• Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirements.

As per national policies, there is a growing need to deliver more complex care in the community to ensure local hospital beds are free for patients who are acutely unwell. Every day is different in community nursing and you will be supported to obtain a comprehensive set of skills to care for patients with a variety of needs.

Skills include but are not limited to:

• The ability to work as an autonomous practitioner
• Diabetes management - monitoring of blood sugars and insulin administration. Access to a specialist diabetic nursing team.
• Tissue viability/Wound care - Leg ulcer, compression therapy, doppler assessments, Vac dressings, pressure ulcers, surgical wounds and many more. Access to a specialist tissue viability team.
• Bladder and Bowel skills - Male, female and suprapubic catheterisation, bowel care, continence assessments. Access to a specialist bladder and bowel team.
• IV medication administration: Care of picc/mid line, preparation and administration of intravenous medications.
• Palliative care: Support visits, symptom control, administration of anticipatory medications (stat doses and syringe drivers). Access to a specialist community palliative care team.
• Drain care: Rocket drains, nephrostomies, chest drains etc

Band 5 nurses work as part of a team and you will contribute to the success of the team, drawing support from more experienced nurses and other health professionals but also by supervising junior staff and students to ensure they are working to the standards which the people using our services deserve.

CNWL provides a robust preceptorship program that focuses on progression and development of skills which includes regular supervision and a first‑class learning experience in all aspects of community nursing. We have an extensive in‑house training program that will equip you with all the theoretical knowledge required to ensure you are a confident, competent practitioner. In addition, our Nurse Development Lead will be available to guide and support new starters within the district nursing service to ensure you feel supported and you have an enhanced learning and development experience.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• NMC Registered nurse (Adult) or awaiting pin, diploma or degree.
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of ongoing relevant CPD
• Willingness to undertake further studies as required as part of this role

Desirable

• Community experience as a student or substantive role

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, use handover effectively, speaking face to face but and by telephone, writing letters and reports
• Able to maintain electronic patient records and working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their work and the people they are working with.
• Act as a mentor to HCAs, Nursing Associates and students
• Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
• Understanding and appreciation of diversity and equality in practice.
• Able to organize own workload without direct supervision.
• Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
• Knowledge of recent development with health and social care

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Employer's website: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact: West Neighbourhood Lead, Joanna Rockliff, [e-mail], 07764327208