Senior Community Nurse

Integrated Care System; Kidderminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health service provider is seeking a Senior Community Nurse to provide compassionate care in the community. The role involves home visits, case management, and supporting patients' needs within a multi-disciplinary team. Ideal candidates will have significant nursing experience and strong communication skills. The position offers flexibility and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 33 days

Generous NHS pension

Flexible working options

Health and wellbeing opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience of management of caseloads or wards.
• Significant post registration experience in a clinical setting.
• Previous community nursing experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage your own caseload and work within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Conduct home visits for adults requiring nursing interventions.
• Support students in a supervisor capacity.

Skills

High level of clinical skills

Communication effectively in English

Time management and organization skills

Ability to work independently

Teaching skills

Advanced assessment skills

Education

Registered Nurse (RN1)

Graduate Nursing Qualification at Academic Level 6

Prescribing Qualification or willingness to undertake

Job description

Go back Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Senior Community Nurse

The closing date is 27 August 2025

Forest Neighbourhood Team is a friendly, supportive andhardworking team who are looking for enthusiastic individuals to join us. The team operates from 7:30am 6:30pm,Monday to Sunday including bank holidays). Shift patterns include 07:30-15:30,08:30-16:30 and 10:30-18:30 on a rota basis. Flexible working opportunities suchas compressed hours are available.

We are looking to recruit a senior community nurse on a full-time basis, who is innovativeand keen to join the team in supporting us to deliver high quality care, and tocontinue our development of integrated care in the community. The role isvaried and rewarding.

We are looking for an experienced passionate nurse who is excitedby change and is keen to help shape a new way of delivering nursing care in thecommunity. We are a team of health careprofessionals who are focused on compassionate care. We work closely with ourGPs and work hard at developing relationships with other primary careservices, drawing on the skills of our MDT colleagues to manage complexpatients and ensure our services are responsive and patient centred.

Main duties of the job

The role will require:

• Theability to work flexibly on a rota basis
• Anenthusiastic, motivated, and innovative thinker to become part of a primarycare facing community
• Theability to work autonomously and manage your own caseload and work within amulti-disciplinary team
• Theability to problem-solve and manage time effectively
• Theability to communicate effectively with others at all levels
• Experienceof working in a fast paced and varied environment
• Theability to travel to deliver care services

Your typical working day willinclude home visits for adults over 18 years needing a range of nursinginterventions. These include caring for people reaching the end of their life,managing their pain relief and other symptoms in a sensitive and compassionatemanner, all types of wound care- post operative wounds, leg ulcers, pressureulcers and complex dressing regimes - you will become expert in tissueviability. Other skills required will be in IV therapy and other injectabledrug administration and holistic assessment of a persons needs, taking in toaccount their environment and social circumstances.

Back at your base, you will beinvolved in team meetings, goal/care planning and evaluation and handovermeetings. As part of the role, you will support students (both pre and postregistration) in a supervisor and / or assessor capacity. You will also berequired to support band 5s and HCAs.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust,we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitalsand community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental healthand learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people ofall ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexibleworking options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions,and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We valuediversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures,and ethnicities.

What we offer;

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you workunsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit ourwebsite.

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Job responsibilities

The post holder will:

Behave consistently with thevalues and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on day-to-day basis.

Act as a role model to colleagues,always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.

Use their initiative and takeresponsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the servicethey provide to patients.

Work as an autonomous practitionerwithin the integrated team providing rapid and planned assessment and treatmentinterventions to patients in their own homes or other community settings toenable patients to maximise their independence, health and wellbeing and remainin their own homes for as long as possible. This will be achieved through acombination of hands-on clinical skills and knowledge to treat, educate andsupport patients on a designated caseload and by working with patients andtheir carers to assess, plan and implement appropriate packages of care.

Demonstrate expert clinical knowledge, health promotion andholistic assessment skills and will work with the patient and their carers toassess, plan, implement and evaluate their ongoing care and support needs intheir own home or temporary/usual place of residence.

Support the Operational and Clinical Team leaders in the deliveryof best nursing practice, be involved in triage, allocation of work andleadership of other staff, manage team resources and deputise in their absence.

You will oversee a caseload of patients andassist in decision making regarding their care. You will attend monthly MDTmeetings within the wider PCN and regular palliative care meetings with aspecific GP surgery.

The band 6 senior nurses take responsibilityfor clinical leadership within the neighbourhood team for specific areas ofinterest such as leg ulcer management, continence, wound care and palliativecare.

You will be required to undertake the Liaisonrole on a weekend and bank holiday on a rota basis and regularly undertake thetriage co-ordinator role.

For full details of the duties and criteriafor the role please refer to the job description and person specificationattached.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN1)
• Graduate Nursing Qualification at Academic Level 6 or working towards.
• Preceptorship training
• Evidence of on-going continuing professional development
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
• Prescribing Qualification or willingness to undertake
• Post-graduate modules in Leadership

Knowledge

• High level of clinical knowledge and skill
• Clinical Governance
• Good knowledge of community services and care pathways
• Health Improvement
• Good working knowledge of positive risk taking and effective risk management strategies
• Understanding of national and local health and social care strategies
• Working knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and Care Act
• Understanding of an Integrated Care System and the Neighbourhood Teams role within the wider system

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to challenge poor behaviour
• Role modelling good behaviour that supports teamworking
• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
• Ability to praise and be supportive to others
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly in English in both written and verbal formats
• High level of clinical skills
• Time management and organisation skills
• Ability to work independently and set own priorities
• Teaching skills
• Advanced assessment skills

Additional Criteria

• Self-motivated and able to motivate others
• Ability to cope under pressure
• Able to meet the travel requirements of the role

Experience

• Significant post registration experience in a clinical setting able to demonstrate transferability of experience to community setting
• Experience of management of caseloads or wards and organisation of staff
• Clinical audit/service improvement and development work
• Experience of active participation in interdisciplinary team working
• Previous community nursing experience
• Transcribing medication

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.

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust