Senior Community Nurse

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Southampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Southampton is seeking a Senior Community Nurse to provide high-quality care to complex patients in their homes. The role emphasizes teamwork and continuous professional development. Candidates must be NMC Registered Nurses with a relevant degree and qualifications. This fixed contract position is full-time, requiring some weekend and bank holiday availability. Join a nurturing team dedicated to advancing healthcare in our community.

Qualifications

• NMC Registered Nurse qualification required.
• Degree or equivalent necessary.
• Relevant postgraduate qualification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality clinical care to patients with complex care needs.
• Support the Clinical Manager and develop junior staff.
• Collaborate with partners in health and social care.

Skills

NMC Registered Nurse - Adult

Teaching and Assessing in Practice/Mentorship

Rehabilitation

Chronic Disease Management

Palliative Care

Education

Degree or equivalent

Relevant post graduate qualification (or working towards)

Job description

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Community Nurse

The closing date is 15 February 2026

HIOW Healthcare are looking for an inspirational registered nurse to work as a Senior Community Nurse. Community Nurses work autonomously and as part of a team and care is delivered in the patients own home environment and designated treatment rooms. Our nurses are responsible for a manageable caseload, working across the city ensuring our patients are receiving the best quality care from the comfort of their own homes and thereby avoiding hospital admission.

HIOW Healthcares Community Nursing is much wider than the nursing team. We work alongside our colleagues within Social Care, our Internal Safeguarding Team, specialist services, both within Solent and external providers, to ensure our patients are provided with the care they require. Working collaboratively enhances staff development but also ensures that our patients are at the heart of everything we do.

It\'s a fixed contract, 37.5 hrs pw role based at Thomas Lewis House in Southampton. Our working patterns are across a 7 day week. Our core shifts are 0830 to 1630 and 1400 to 2000 hrs. There is also a requirement that you will work 1 in 4 weekends as well as bank holidays.

Although a lone worker, you will be supported by an experienced and nurturing team who are available to allow you to develop your existing skills. You will be provided the training you require to maintain and develop your clinical skills. This will be achieved by attending appropriate training and working with our Clinical Educators and other staff within the team.

Main duties of the job

To work in partnership with Primary Care to provide high quality clinical care for

patients, often with complex care needs, living in the community, who require a

programme of care/rehabilitation following an inpatient episode or who are living

with long term conditions and are at risk of deteriorating health that may result in

declining quality of life.

To support the Clinical Manager and Integrated Service Matron in providing

clinical knowledge and leadership to the community nursing staff in the wider

locality health team, supervising and developing junior staff and contributing to the

achievement of divisional business delivery objectives.

To work collaboratively with partners in health and social care, to establish a whole

p>systems approach to managing patients with complex care needs, maintaining a p>community pull on patients being admitted to secondary care, to inform decisions p>about acute interventions and to lead in the discharge planning.

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

• * NMC Registered Nurse - Adult
• * Degree or equivalent
• * Relevant post graduate qualification (or working towards)
• * Teaching and Assessing in Practice/Mentorship
• * Post registration course e.g. Rehabilitation, Chronic Disease Management, Palliative Care, History Taking, Community Nurse Specialist

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