Senior Community Nurse | East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in London is seeking a Senior Community Nurse to work in Tower Hamlets. The role involves supporting older patients, coordinating care, and preventing unnecessary hospital admissions. Applicants should have experience in acute or community healthcare and be passionate about improving patient outcomes. This full-time position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on the care of vulnerable populations.

Qualifications

• Experience in acute, community, or older people's services.
• Ability to manage patients with complex needs.
• Confident in working across healthcare boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Identify medically fit patients at risk of delayed discharge.
• Coordinate timely and safe transitions of care.
• Provide clinical leadership and support to junior staff.

Skills

Assessment skills

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Job description

Overview

Band 6 - Senior Community Nurse - Tower Hamlets, London

Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours)

Are you passionate about making a difference for older people and supporting safe, timely discharges from hospital? Do you want to be part of an innovative, integrated service working at the interface of acute and community care?

We are looking for an experienced and motivated B6 Community Nurse to join our Integrated In-Reach and Older People Service, helping to deliver high quality of, person centred, care for patients living with frailty, complex health care needs, and social care challenges. This exciting role is central to supporting hospital flow, avoid unnecessary admissions, and ensuring patients return safely to their home or community setting with the right care in place. This is a role ideal for a dynamic, forward thinking nurse with experience in acute, community, or older people\'s services. You will be confident working across boundaries, enjoy problem solving, and thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can make a real impact on patient outcomes.

• Work proactively on hospital wards to identify medially fit patients at risk of delayed discharge and coordinate timely, safe transitions of care
• Use advance assessment and frailty and falls screening skills to support older people with complex needs, ensuring personalised care planning.
• Collaborate closely with community health services, social care, primary care, and care homes to streamline pathways and avoid readmissions.
• Provide clinical leadership, education, and support to junior colleagues, care staff, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Contribute to service development and the wider frailty and admission avoidance pathway, ensuring best practice and innovation.
• This is borough wide cover.
• To introduce and enable self management and self care.
• To work as part of a team ensuring all patients have a safe handover to the professional and team to complete the care plan and measure the outcomes.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people\'s lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact the recruiting manager.

This advert closes on Friday 12 Sep 2025