Community Staff Nurse

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust invites applications for a Community Staff Nurse role within the Adult Community Nursing Service. The post covers patients in their own homes across four local neighbourhoods and offers full-time, permanent hours (37.5 per week, including two weekend shifts per month).

As a Registered Nurse in District Nursing, you will work autonomously with professional accountability, supported by a strong team and our Trust values.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse – Adult on the Nursing and Midwifery Register.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Able to work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver compassionate community care to patients in their homes.
• Plan and coordinate complex care with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Develop SMART care plans and monitor patient progress.

Skills

Registered Nurse – Adult

Autonomous practice

Community nursing

Education

NMC registration

Tools

Driving license

Job description

Step into a place where exceptional care, patients, culture, and careers come together.

Explore our current vacancies and take your first step toward making a real difference.

Join us. Make a difference. Be part of Team LGT.

Main area District Nursing Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (including two weekends a month) Job ref 197-AJ-R-8939

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS trust has an exciting opportunity for dedicated Community Staff Nurses to join the Adult Community Nursing Service delivering services to patients in their own homes in one of our 4 local neighbourhoods.

Main duties of the job

As no two days are the same in the community, you will be able to work with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability where the work you do makes a real difference to your patients and those important to them, in line with our trust values.

The aim of our service is to enable patients to stay at home longer and leave hospitals faster maximising their potential for independence and wellbeing. To succeed in this goal, our community teams work closely with members of the wider multi-disciplinary teams to plan and deliver complex care.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The two shift patterns for the role: 08.00 - 16.00 and 12.00 - 20.00, with two weekends on rota

A driving license and access to a vehicle is necessary for this role.

We would encourage you to get in touch with us prior to application to hear all about our community teams and how you can get involved.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• Registered Nurse – Adult on the Nursing and Midwifery Register
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• To meet the numeracy literacy and clinical competency requirements of the role
• Evidence of other post registration education and training
• Clinical specific post registration courses such as; wound, diabetes, continence care, including leg ulcer management and/or other nursing interventions

Experience

• Experience of communicating and working in partnership with other professionals and agencies
• Teaching experience including facilitating groups for delivering health promotion
• Experience of working in a community setting

Knowledge

• Knowledge of current reforms and developments in community care
• Understands the importance of promoting self care and rehabilitation for the housebound patient
• Knowledge and awareness of principles of audit, research and clinical governance
• Understands the value of timely record keeping and accurate recording of nursing interventions

Skills and Attributes

• Ability to develop SMART care plans to deliver quality nursing care to patients
• Ability to deliver a broad range of practical nursing tasks to monitor and manage patients’ conditions Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to use own initiative, work autonomously as well as in a team

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.

Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

Use of AI in recruitment: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the initial review of applications against the essential criteria for this role. Where AI is used, it will support rather than replace human decision-making, and applications will remain subject to appropriate human review.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Application numbers

To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date. We recommend applying as early as possible to avoid missing out. All applications received before the cap is reached will be considered equally and assessed against the person specification.

Name Annie Curry Job title Head of Nursing - Adult Community Services Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07932 736239