Senior Community Nurse

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in London is seeking a Senior Community Nurse to enhance clinical and leadership skills. In this full-time role, you will work with the District Nursing team to deliver quality care, enabling self-management and independence for patients. Responsibilities include coordinating referrals and assessments, as well as collaborating with local teams. Candidates must be RGN qualified, with experience in managing teams and delivering evidence-based clinical nursing care.

Qualifications

• RGN qualification is essential.
• Experience in managing a team in healthcare settings.
• Ability to organize and deliver high standards of clinical nursing care.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all referrals are triaged and scheduled for visits.
• Assess new admissions with a robust patient-focused care plan.
• Work as part of a team to maintain effective patient flow.

Skills

Organizational skills

Clinical nursing care

Communication skills

Budget management

Education

RGN

DN Cert/Dip/Degree

Non-Medical Prescriber V300

Nurse Formulary prescriber V100

Advanced history taking and physical assessment course

Tools

Emis

Job description

Band 6 - Senior Community Nurse - Tower Hamlets, London

Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours)

Are you looking to progress your Clinical and leadership skills and be at the forefront of change?

We in the District Nursing team, have an ambitious vision for the Tower Hamlets community health service. We are striving to deliver high standards of care at the point of entry into our services, with the aim of improving access to the quality of life for all of our patients. One of our main aims is also to enable self care and independence.

Date : 17th January 2026

Time : 09:00 am - 16:00 pm (Come prepared to be interviewed on the day)

Morning registration: 9:00 AM -10:00 AM (We wont accept candidatesfor the morning session after this time)

Afternoon registration: 12:30 - 13:15 pm(We wont accept candidates for the afternoon session after this time)

Afternoon Interview : 13:15 - 16:00 pm

Address : Beaumont house third floor, Mile end, Bethnal Green, London E1 4NS

Role : Senior Community Nurse

Main duties of the job

• To work as part of a team ensuring all referrals are triaged and have a visit schedule for the appropriate service.
• To work as part of a team ensuring all new admissions to the Community Nursing services have a clinically robust assessment and patient focused care plan. This is borough wide cover.
• To introduce and enable self management and self care.
• To work as part of a team ensuring all patients have a safe handover to the professional and team to complete the care plan and measure the outcomes.
• To work in partnership with the locality teams and partner providers to maintain effective patient flow.
• To work within the financial resources for the patients and the service.
• To work shifts patters on a rota: (8am-4pm, 10am-6pm and 12pm-8pm) Monday to Sunday

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.

If further information is required then please do contact the recruiting manager.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification/Training

• RGN
• DN Cert/Dip/Degree
• Non-Medical Prescriber V300
• Nurse Formulary prescriber V100
• Advanced history taking and physical assessment course

Experience

• Ability to organize and deliver high standards of evidence based clinical nursing care
• Ability to assess, monitor , plan and evaluate care
• Good organizational Skills and ability to priories work and delegate effectively to the team
• Experience of Budget management
• Ability to liaise effectively with members of the Primary care team.
• Experience of managing a team with the health care setting
• Experience and knowledge on holistic initial assessments.

Knowledge and Skills

• Understanding and knowledge of the complex needs and long term conditions management
• Good knowledge of safeguarding processes and able to escalate issues around vulnerable adults.
• Knowledge of agencies and organisations within the primary care systems that can be utilized to gain optimum care for a patient
• Sound knowledge and competence in IT and clinical systems for example Emis
• Knowledge of HR process for line management of staff
• Knowledge of current professional issues facing nursing
• Knowledge of community nursing practice and current legislation
• Knowledge of information governance and the responsibility

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.

EPCT South Locality District Nurse Team, Mile End Hospital

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