Community Staff Nurse

East Coast Community Healthcare Cic; Lowestoft; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

East Coast Community Healthcare CIC is recruiting a Registered Community Nurse to deliver high-quality nursing care to adults in their homes, clinics and residential settings within the Lowestoft area. You will work with Senior nurses to build confidence and develop caseload management in the community.

The role includes holistic assessments, medication administration, wound care, and health coaching to promote independence.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (Adult) with current NMC registration.
• BSc in Nursing Practice or equivalent.
• Proven ability to work autonomously in the community.
• Excellent communication and record-keeping skills.
• Health coaching and patient education experience would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide person-centred nursing care to adults at home, clinics, or residential settings.
• Carry out holistic assessments and plan care with the team.
• Administer medications, wound care, and clinical interventions.
• Collaborate with and support other health and social care professionals.

Skills

Nurse communication

Health coaching

Autonomous practice

Clinical assessment

Education

BSc in Nursing Practice

NMC Registered Nurse – Adult

Job description

Closing date: 03 November 2026

Welcome to Lowestoft Primary Care Home (PCH) team.

Are you a Registered Nurse (Adult) or 3rd year student due to qualify? Do you want to progress your nursing career with a supportive and encouraging team, providing nursing care to patients in their own homes, clinic or residential homes?

We are looking for a dedicated and motivated Registered Community Nurse to join our team. Following a structured induction and with ongoing support, including a thorough Preceptorship period if needed, you will work autonomously within a community setting, managing a varied caseload safely and effectively.

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the relevant qualifications, clinical skills and professional registration required for this role, along with the confidence and sound judgement to make independent clinical decisions.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates. All applicants will be assessed fairly on merit against the requirements of the post.

The PCH team provides community services 7 days per week 07:00 - 20:30 hours.

The core shift is 08:30 - 16:30, other shifts included in the rota are 07:00 - 15:00 and 12:00 - 20:00 as well as weekends and bank holidays on a rotational basis.

Any offer of employment will be subject to standard pre-employment checks, including verification of the right to work in the UK.

Please note this vacancy is for two positions: one 37.5hr per week and one 30hr per week.

Main duties of the job

As a community nurse you will be providing an excellent standard of person centered care to adults in their own homes, residential care or clinic settings. This will include a mixture of nursing and reablement interventions to support patients to maintain their health or recover from ill health where possible. You will be supported by Senior nurses to gain the clinical skills required to deliver care in the community and you will eventually hold your own caseload of patients.

You will complete holistic assessments for patients referred to the service. Participate in delivery of nursing interventions which could include, but not restricted to:

• Holistic assessments including environmental, moving and handling assessments, pressure area risk, nutritional needs.
• Urinary catheterisation
• Administration of medication via injection
• Wound care and specialist leg ulcer assessment and care
• Palliation and end of life care
• Acute admission avoidance
• Support patient self care using health coaching

For further information or an informal visit please email the Lead Nurse [e-mail]

About us

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders. We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future. At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

Lowestoft Primary Care Home is a multidisciplinary clinical team of health and social care professionals working in partnership with Primary Care, Social Services, social care providers, other specialist community health teams and voluntary sector providers to ensure patients are able to remain in their own homes whenever possible.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute to, support, and promote ECCH's strategic direction, values, and culture in relation to community health services.
• Discuss all treatment options with sensitivity, knowledge, and expertise. To act as a patient advocate when appropriate, respecting patient confidentiality with privacy and respect for diverse cultural backgrounds and requirements.
• Act as a resource for other health and social care professionals on matters relating to community nursing.
• Participate in clinical supervision within Primary Care Home as required.
• Participate and maintain a learning environment and maximise opportunities for education and development in the clinical area.
• Develop excellent internal and external Network to promote Primary Care Home.
• Contribute to the clinical governance agenda through participation in clinical risk assessment and clinical audit.
• Contribute to an environment conducive to effective working, respecting, and supporting staff to deliver high quality clinical services.
• Contribute to change and innovation within Primary Care Home.
• Work as part of the multidisciplinary Primary Care Home to deliver planned and unplanned services.
• Work in collaboration with colleagues to contribute to the development of care pathways for patients requiring a range of healthcare needs.
• Work in partnership with senior members of the Primary Care Home to review the delegated caseload and ensure the care provided is of high quality.
• Work with patients towards self-care and independence utilising health coaching techniques.
• Work collaboratively with residential care home colleagues to promote high standards of care.
• Contribute to the review of current policies, protocols and guidelines and the development of clinical pathways and outcomes for people requiring proactive and reactive services.
• Plan and organise a range of complex clinical activities in a wide range of community settings to ensure best practice is delivered to patients in your delegated area of responsibility.
• Take responsibility for own personal and professional development; maintain competence, knowledge, and skills commensurate with role.
• Be wholly accountable for practice taking every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve knowledge and professional competence and ensure all aspects of professional behaviour as required within professional code are always followed.
• Maintain legible, accurate and contemporaneous patient records in accordance with ECCH Policy and Nursing and Midwifery Council standards for record keeping.
• Take responsibility to ensure compliance with Health and Safety Policy, Fire and Environmental Waste Regulations.
• Be responsible for understanding, following, and implementing ECCH policies and procedures.
• Ensure own compliance with ECCH risk management systems, proactively identifying risk, reporting, and managing risk within area of responsibility.
• Take responsibility for the cost-effective management and safe use of expensive clinical equipment.
• Contribute to the effective use of resources.
• Contribute to the evaluation of training programmes to support patients and carers gain the necessary knowledge and skills to maintain independence.
• All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the care they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these behaviours an essential part of their job role.
• Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word 'CARE': Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
• Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead | Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.

Essential qualifications

• Professional Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)
• BSc in Nursing Practice or equivalent

Desirable qualifications

• Mentorship/ preceptorship qualification/ ENB 998
• Evidence of working towards a nursing degree

Essential experience

• Evidence of continued professional development
• Ability to work unsupervised
• Ability to demonstrate clinical knowledge and competence within scope of clinical practice
• Previous experience of working in health care

Desirable experience

• Recent clinical experience in community nursing
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working

Essential additional criteria

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Competent IT skills
• Effective organisation and time management skills
• Excellent record keeping skills
• Health coaching training

Desirable additional criteria

• Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours
• Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required
• Be able to support Trainee Nursing Associates
• Act as a role model to all students
• Able to demonstrate personal resilience, emotions and stress

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 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 the NHS Careers website.

Employer contact

Lead Nurse: Lucinda Giles, [e-mail], 07899060223

Employer details

East Coast Community Healthcare CIC, Hamilton House, Battery Green Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 1DE, United Kingdom. Website: https://www.ecch.org/