Senior Community Nurse

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Portsmouth is seeking a Senior Community Nurse. You will manage a complex caseload, provide clinical leadership, and support patients to remain independent at home.

Premises include community nursing teams with a focus on high-quality, person-centred care, discharge planning, and collaborative working with families and agencies. A full UK driving licence is essential.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with NMC registration.
• BSc Nursing or RN qualification required.
• Post-registration qualification or degree desirable.
• Teaching/mentoring qualification (ENB 998 or PETALS) preferred.
• Right to work in the UK at time of application.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and evaluate care planning to ensure high quality care.
• Ensure medicines are handled and administered safely per guidelines.
• Inform the Community Matron of concerns affecting patient care.
• Develop and maintain effective links with the multidisciplinary team to meet patient needs.
• Communicate clearly with patients, carers and staff to share information.
• Act as a role model for person-centred practice and lead service improvements.
• Stay updated with clinical developments to raise care standards.
• Lead discharge planning in a proactive, interprofessional way.
• Promote safe and effective clinical recording in line with policies.
• Encourage patient wellness and co-production across care settings.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Caseload management

Education

BSc Nursing or RN registered with NMC

Post registration qualification or degree

Masters degree or equivalent

ENB 998 or mentorship qualification - PETALS

Job description

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Community Nurse

The closing date is 08 November 2026

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Nurse to join our friendly and supportive Community Nursing Team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a registered nurse with excellent clinical and leadership skills to provide high-quality care to patients within their own homes and community settings. You will be responsible for managing a caseload of patients with complex health needs, carrying out holistic assessments, planning and evaluating care, and working collaboratively with patients, families and partner agencies.

As a Senior Community Nurse, you will provide clinical leadership and support to the wider nursing team, helping to maintain high standards of patient care, quality and safety. You will play a key role in preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, supporting timely discharge from hospital and enabling patients to remain independent within their own homes whenever possible.

The successful candidate will be an effective communicator, able to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will be committed to delivering compassionate, person-centred care and supporting continuous service improvement.

In return, we offer a supportive working environment, regular supervision, professional development opportunities and the chance to make a real difference to the lives of patients within the local community.

A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes are essential.

Main duties of the job

• Monitor the quality of care planning, implementation and evaluation to ensure optimum quality is maintained
• Ensure that medicines in your area are handled and administered according to professional and organisational guidelines to ensure safety and efficacy.
• Inform the Community Matron of any concerns with patients, relatives, visitors or staff that may compromise patient care
• Develop and maintain constructive working relationships and liaise effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team so that patients' needs are met
• Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients and carers so that information is shared in order to meet patients' needs
• Act as a role model in the promotion of person-centred practice, and challenge practice which is not person-centred, so that a person-centred culture is maintained.
• Keep updated with relevant clinical developments and use knowledge to enhance standards of care
• Ensure that discharge and transfer planning for patients is done in a proactive and interdisciplinary manner
• Practice, role model and promote safe and effective skills in all aspects of clinical practice
• Practice, role model and promote safe and effective recording in line with trust policies and professional standards
• Encourage a culture of patient wellness and coproduction
• Demonstrate, care, compassion, competence, effective communication, courage and commitment with all patients and carers

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications

• BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC.
• Post registration qualification or University Degree
• Teaching and assessing qualification ENB 998 or equivalent/mentorship qualification - PETALS
• At present, the Trust is unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.
• Masters degree or equivalent experience gained by undertaking on-going personal development and training.

Experience

• Experience of caseload management including responsibility for complex care packages for vulnerable people
• Experience, underpinned by knowledge of working with and understanding the complex needs of patients in a primary care/community setting
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Broad range of enhanced clinical skills
• Ability to advocate patient issues
• Ability to demonstrate leadership skills
• Demonstrates organisational skills: including the ability to make decisions and to prioritise
• Demonstrates an understanding and insight into current issues and developments within the NHS
• Involved in the implementation and management of change
• Evidence of innovative practice
• Experience of working with long-term conditions and frailty
• Good understanding of current nursing and AHP workforce issues
• Clear understanding of Community Health Services
• Experience of initiating or participating in clinical audit/research relating to clinical
• Participates in regular clinical supervision

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.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St.Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth)

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearPlease note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Reference number

348-PSE-12977

Job locations

St.Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth)