Community Staff Nurse

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT; East Midlands; In loco; GBP 26.000 - 33.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

27 days annual leave/year plus bank

Health service discounts

Incremental pay progression

Descrizione del lavoro

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT is recruiting a Community Staff Nurse to join our community nursing teams across Derby City and surrounding areas. The role involves delivering evidence-based care in patients’ homes, collaborating with GPs, therapy services and home visiting colleagues.

Applicants must be an RGN with community experience and be able to travel across a wide geographical area; access to a suitable vehicle is preferred.

Competenze

• Registered Nurse (RGN) with current registration.
• Experience working in the community or district nursing setting.
• Experience in wound care and long-term conditions; good clinical governance and reflective practice.

Mansioni

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised patient care in the community.
• Promote self-care while maintaining privacy, dignity and clinical effectiveness.
• Provide guidance and support to junior staff and coordinate with District Nurse/Senior Community Nurses.

Conoscenze

Community nursing

Patient care planning

Team communication

Formazione

RN (RGN)

Descrizione del lavoro

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT

Community Staff Nurse

The closing date is 20 November 2026

Are you a Registered Nurse looking for a new challenge supporting patients in the community?

If so, this could be the opportunity for you.

We are seeking a fulltime and part-time Registered Nurse to join our community nursing teams within Derby City and surrounding area's

This is an exciting time to join one of the country's largest specialist community NHS providers, recognised by its own staff as one of the best NHS employers.

Main duties of the job

Our service deliver's evidence-based care that supports patients to remain in their own homes.

This role offers the opportunity to work closely with general practice, therapy services and home visiting colleagues.

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised patient care, promoting self-care wherever possible while maintaining privacy, dignity and clinical effectiveness.

Provide guidance and support to junior staff in delivering high-quality care, while actively assisting the District Nurse/ Senior Community Nurses in managing the healthcare environment.

Due to the nature of the role, the post holder must be able to travel across a wide geographical area, often with equipment, and have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes

About us

We are a professional, friendly, and enthusiastic team who work closely with our therapy colleagues to provide a holistic integrated service that enables and educates our patients to remain independent in their own homes, whenever possible, to prevent hospital admission and support a safe discharge home.

This is increasingly important as care for patients become more community-focused.

Our purpose in Derbyshire is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations.

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• RGN
• Evidence of recent relevant training

Experience and Knowledge

• Experience of working in the community
• Evidence of research based/reflective practice
• Long Term Conditions
• Wound care and leg ulcer management
• palliative Care

Other

• Able to work weekend and bank holidays
• Due to the nature of the role, the post holder must be able to travel across a wide geographical area, often with equipment, and have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes

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.

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT