Senior Community Nurse

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

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Senior Community Nurse (Band 6) to lead community care, provide clinical leadership, supervise staff and uphold high standards of nursing practice. The role emphasises working to improve outcomes and support development across teams.

You will help coordinate care at home, support flexible working, and engage with innovative community-based models to deliver safe, effective treatment while maintaining patient-centered care.

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse / RMN / Practitioner or Allied Health Professional.
• Post-registration qualification or University Degree.
• Teaching and assessing qualification ENB 998 or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic leadership to the team and support the Clinical Team Lead.
• Lead and facilitate patient-focused, coordinated case management across primary/secondary care.
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary pathways to support self-management and early intervention.
• Work across caseload to identify patient needs and liaise with the appropriate services.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Staff development

Supervision

Education

RN / RMN / Practitioner or AHP

Tools

ENB 998 or equivalent

Job description

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Community Nurse

The closing date is 15 November 2026

Are you looking for a role where you can make a real difference by delivering care closer to people's homes and supporting the future of community-based healthcare? If so, we invite you to join us as a Band 6 Community Nurse at an exciting time of transformation.

As a senior member of the team, you'll provide clinical leadership and support to colleagues, helping to supervise and develop the workforce, as well as maintain high standards of care across the service. This includes clinical supervisions, supporting competency attainment, and upskilling junior members of the team to ensure safe, effective.

You'll have access to a wide range of learning opportunities and leadership development programmes. There are also clear progression pathways, alongside flexible working arrangements that support a healthy work-life balance and wellbeing.

Community services lead the way in innovative models of care, with virtual wards and digital healthcare solutions that improve patient outcomes and reduce unnecessary hospital admissions. This is a great opportunity to be part of a forward-thinking organisation committed to delivering modern, integrated and community-focused healthcare.

Only open to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service, Isle of Wight NHS FT or Hampshire Hospitals FT.

Main duties of the job

• The primary role of the clinical team lead is to provide strong holistic leadership to the team and support the Clinical Team Lead (band 7). To include day to day leadership responsibilities, development and creative leadership, responsive leadership, enabling the team to achieve a 'well led' culture.
• The Integrated Clinical Lead in conjunction with a wide range of clinical colleagues and specifically, GP's, Practice Nurses and Social Care professionals, will lead and facilitate a patient or client focused, co-ordinated case management approach across primary and secondary care for people who are most vulnerable to, and at high risk of repeat admissions to hospital.
• The Clinical Team Lead will participate in and influence efforts across health and social services to shape multi-disciplinary pathways designed to support patient choice, improve quality of life, promote self-management and assure early intervention through the proactive provision of care in or as close to the patient's own home as possible.
• The Clinical Team Lead will work across the caseload and the single point of access or (equivalent), using their clinical skills to identify the needs of patients and the correct services to liaise with.
• The Clinical Team Lead will provide an expertise in their own discipline to the wider team.

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse/ Registered Mental Health Nurse/Practitioner or Registered Allied Health Professional
• Post registration qualification or University Degree
• Teaching and assessing qualification ENB 998 or equivalent/mentorship qualification -- PETALS
• *FULL UK DRIVING LICENCE is required at time of applying for role.*

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

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearBased on full time hours