Senior Community Nurse

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust; Teddington; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a Senior Community Nurse to join a dedicated team focused on delivering personalized care in the Richmond area. This role offers the chance to lead a skilled nursing team, ensuring high standards of patient care while benefiting from robust training programs designed to enhance your nursing career. With a commitment to staff development and a supportive work environment, this organization is recognized for its employee satisfaction and quality of care. If you are a compassionate, motivated individual looking to make a meaningful impact, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Qualified RGN with current NMC registration.
• Experience in assessing and delivering patient care in home settings.

Responsibilities

• Support the Locality Nursing Team Manager in service delivery.
• Lead and manage the community nursing team effectively.

Skills

Patient Care

Leadership

Communication

Clinical Assessment

Team Management

Problem Solving

Holistic Assessment

IT Literacy

Education

Registered General Nurse (RGN)

Relevant Post Registration Study

Diploma or BSc Community Health

Tools

Databases

Job description

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Job Summary

Are you ready for a new challenge? Could you make a difference?

Job Summary

Are you ready for a new challenge? Could you make a difference?

Are You

Interested in developing your nursing career?

Committed to giving the highest standard of patient care?

Compassionate towards patients and their families?

An excellent communicator with the ability to lead and motivate a team?

Highly motivated, energetic and innovative with full UK driving license holder with access to a car?

An exciting opportunity has come up for the Adult Community Night Nursing Service for a Band 6 Community Nurse to work across the Richmond area. The service operates from 1900 hours until 0700 hours across Richmond borough and the vacancy is two night shifts a week.

As a senior community nurse you will assist the Community Team Manager in the management of a designated caseload, ensuring that holistic assessments are undertaken by a competent practitioner within the nursing team.

The Trust is passionate in developing the staff by providing a robust and comprehensive training programme to build your nursing career. Trainings on offer are the following: District Nursing specialist training sponsorship, V150/300 Non-Medical Prescriber, Physical assessment, Leadership and Management Programme, and band 6 developmental training amongst other things.

Get your career in the right direction, with the right organisation and at the right time - please come to KRFT and be part of this organisation.

Main duties of the job

To support the Locality Nursing Team Manager in the delivery of the locality nursing service in line with the commissioned service specification, standards, activity and outcomes, in the context of multi-disciplinary locality working.

Assisting the Locality Nursing Team Manager to provide line management and leadership for the community nursing team, being accountable for the team caseload and the development of a skilled, competent and motivated workforce, able to meet the needs of the patients on the caseload

Take a lead for a specific area of nursing practice, as a delegated responsibility, to ensure that less experienced nurses have access to best practice knowledge and expertise to inform and support their clinical practice.

Deputise in the absence of the Locality Nursing Team Manager , and undertake delegated tasks as development opportunities for succession planning.

This will involve working independently

About Us

Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It's personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It's the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible. Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. It's simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services.

In 2018, we were named'Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction'by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.

We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.

Infection Control

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.

Date posted

26 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£42,939 to £50,697 a year p.a. pro rata inclusive of HCAS (Outer)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

396-779-7099907-N-SCN-JK-Z

Job locations

Richmond

Teddington Memorial Hospital

Teddington

TW11 0JL

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

Responsibilities

Job description Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential

• Qualified RGN (Registered General Nurse - Adult) with current registration with NMC - Part1.
• Relevant post registration study at diploma/degree level and relevant CPD e.g. palliative care, tissue viability
  
  

Desirable

• Diploma or BSc (Hons) Community Health (DN)
• Clinical Assessment Skills
• Nurse Prescriber V150 (willing to undertake)
• Mentorship Preceptorship or equivalent (willing to undertake)
• Specialist Practice Teacher/ Teaching Qualification
  
  

Knowledge Essential

• Understanding of the impact of Mental Health e.g. dementia, depression, on the management of medical and long term conditions
• Professional standards including confidentiality, clinical governance and NMC guidelines
• Infection prevention and control standards
• Risk assessment and management
• Understanding of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
  
  

Desirable

• Understanding of current legislation and its implications for this role, including performance indicators and targets
• Understanding of both the Health and Social Care agenda
  
  

Experience Essential

• Experience in assessing, planning, delivering and evaluating patients in their own homes
• Experience in problem solving and supporting other team members
• Experience of Multidisciplinary team work
• Experience of providing supervision
• Experience of mentoring students
  
  

Desirable

• Experience of managing resources to stay within the service budget
• Experience of audit evaluation
  
  

Skills Essential

• Ability to manage the day to day running of the team, use initiative and delegate tasks to appropriately trained staff
• Ability to lead by example, both clinically and managerially, being consistent and fair to all staff in every aspect of work
• IT literate with ability to use databases and other software packages
• Ability to work under pressure, balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Core clinical skills medicines management including IV, venepuncture, continence, chronic disease management, palliative care, wound management
• Holistic assessment, core clinical, clinical reasoning and care planning skills to proactively manage patient care
• .Able to produce well written and timely clinical records and service reports
  
  

Personal Essential

• Reliable, empathetic, approachable, understanding, non-judgemental and tolerant
• Ability to travel to multiple sites; car driver
• Ability to undertake a shift system
• Has a positive attitude to change and is prepared to work flexibly to meet the need of people and the service
• Demonstrates high ethical and professional standards
  
  

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Qualified RGN (Registered General Nurse - Adult) with current registration with NMC - Part1.
• Relevant post registration study at diploma/degree level and relevant CPD e.g. palliative care, tissue viability
  
  

Desirable

• Diploma or BSc (Hons) Community Health (DN)
• Clinical Assessment Skills
• Nurse Prescriber V150 (willing to undertake)
• Mentorship Preceptorship or equivalent (willing to undertake)
• Specialist Practice Teacher/ Teaching Qualification
  
  

Knowledge Essential

• Understanding of the impact of Mental Health e.g. dementia, depression, on the management of medical and long term conditions
• Professional standards including confidentiality, clinical governance and NMC guidelines
• Infection prevention and control standards
• Risk assessment and management
• Understanding of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
  
  

Desirable

• Understanding of current legislation and its implications for this role, including performance indicators and targets
• Understanding of both the Health and Social Care agenda
  
  

Experience Essential

• Experience in assessing, planning, delivering and evaluating patients in their own homes
• Experience in problem solving and supporting other team members
• Experience of Multidisciplinary team work
• Experience of providing supervision
• Experience of mentoring students
  
  

Desirable

• Experience of managing resources to stay within the service budget
• Experience of audit evaluation
  
  

Skills Essential

• Ability to manage the day to day running of the team, use initiative and delegate tasks to appropriately trained staff
• Ability to lead by example, both clinically and managerially, being consistent and fair to all staff in every aspect of work
• IT literate with ability to use databases and other software packages
• Ability to work under pressure, balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Core clinical skills medicines management including IV, venepuncture, continence, chronic disease management, palliative care, wound management
• Holistic assessment, core clinical, clinical reasoning and care planning skills to proactively manage patient care
• .Able to produce well written and timely clinical records and service reports
  
  

Personal Essential

• Reliable, empathetic, approachable, understanding, non-judgemental and tolerant
• Ability to travel to multiple sites; car driver
• Ability to undertake a shift system
• Has a positive attitude to change and is prepared to work flexibly to meet the need of people and the service
• Demonstrates high ethical and professional standards
  
  

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information 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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Richmond

Teddington Memorial Hospital

Teddington

TW11 0JL

Employer's website

https://www.kingstonandrichmond.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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