Community Staff Nurse

Sussex Community; Lancing; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust is inviting applications for a Registered Nurse to join the Adur PCN Team in Lancing. The role covers housebound patients in the Adur locality, offering wound care, long-term condition management, and palliative care in patients’ homes and care home settings.

The post supports a structured induction with ongoing development in community nursing, with a friendly team and opportunities to progress within the service.

Qualifications

• RN qualification or degree or diploma.
• ENB 998 or equivalent or working towards.
• Evidence of a range of clinical competencies.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate patient care in the community.
• Wound assessment and management.
• Catheter and continence care.
• Medication administration, including insulin where competent.
• Support patients with long-term conditions and complex health needs.
• Deliver palliative and end-of-life care and safeguarding.
• Collaborate with GPs, therapists, care homes and the multidisciplinary team.
• Support hospital discharge and prevent unnecessary admissions.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and contribute to care planning.

Skills

RN qualification

ENB 998

Wound care

Medicines management

Communication skills

IT literacy

Education

RN qualification / degree or diploma

Tools

IT literacy

Job description

The Adur Community Primary Care Network Team is looking to recruit a Registered Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team based in Lancing, providing care to housebound patients across the Adur locality.

Whether you are newly qualified or an experienced nurse seeking a new challenge, Community Nursing offers a rewarding and varied role, including wound care, long-term condition management, palliative care, catheter care, safeguarding, and care home support.

Successful applicants will receive a structured induction programme and ongoing support to develop their skills and confidence within the community setting.

We encourage prospective applicants to research both the community nursing role and Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust and be prepared to demonstrate how their skills, values, and experience make them suitable for this opportunity.

Main duties of the job

As a Band 5 Community Nurse within the Adur PCN Team, you will provide high-quality nursing care to housebound patients in their own homes and care home settings. Duties include:

• Assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of patient care.
• Wound assessment and management.
• Catheter and continence care.
• Administration of medication, including insulin where competent.
• Supporting patients with long-term conditions and complex health needs.
• Delivering palliative and end-of-life care.
• Safeguarding adults and raising concerns where appropriate.
• Working collaboratively with GPs, therapists, care homes and the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Supporting hospital discharge and preventing unnecessary hospital admissions.
• Maintaining accurate clinical records and contributing to care planning.

You will receive support and development opportunities to build your community nursing skills and progress your career within a friendly and experienced team.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief network
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job responsibilities

You will see on the Person Specification some of the competencies and expectations you will either have or need to develop if you were successful. The main aspects of the role are Diabetic Management, Wound Management including Leg Ulcers diagnosis and treatment, Palliative care working very closely with the Macmillan and GPs, Bladder and Bowel care including urethral and supra pubic catheters and other continence needs.

As well as the traditional type of patients as stated above, we work in partnership with the local health and social providers covering a specific group of people under Frailty.

Our goal is to deliver high quality care in the community, working with patients towards rehabilitation, self-management and independence throughout the continuum of care. To participate in a team of colleagues supporting evidence based care, facilitating staff learning and development.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RN qualification / degree or diploma
• ENB 998 or equivalent or work towards
• Evidence of a range of clinical competencies

Experience

• Good numeracy and literacy skills
• Good communication and negotiation skills
• Is able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
• Knowledge of current local policies informing community health and social care services
• A clear understanding of the role of the Community Staff Nurse
• Promote independence and choice in undertaking patient care
• IT literate or willing to achieve within an agreed period
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance, clinical audit and clinical supervision, Professional codes of Conduct Ability to demonstrate knowledge/ understanding of boundaries of role Practice supervisor
• Demonstrates competency in a range of clinical skills e.g. wound management, Catheterisation skills, medicines management and administration, palliative and end of life care including management of syringe drivers.

Skills

• Demonstrate ability to reflect and learn from situations
• Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning and development Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
• A clear understanding of the role of Community staff nurse
• Demonstrate a high level of understanding of self, able to identify personal limitations and shows openness to address them
• Car Driver with access to a vehicle for work purposes, unless under the Equality Act for reasonable adjustments

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.

Operational Team Lead - Adur and Chanctonbury PCN

£32,073 to £39,043 a yearper annum / pro rata