Senior Community Nurse - Hospital at Home - Oxford

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Community Nurse to support youth and families in the community, enhancing their wellbeing and preventing hospital admissions. This role offers opportunities for career progression, flexible working options, and comprehensive support and training in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS Discounts across various services

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work scheme

Lease car scheme

Mental Health First Aiders

Qualifications

• Experience working with clients with learning disabilities and/or Autism.
• Understanding of CMHTs and interdisciplinary working.
• Ability to maintain high standards of care.

Responsibilities

• Conduct specialist nursing assessments with service users and their families.
• Develop treatment plans in partnership with clients.
• Supervise junior team members and mentor nursing trainees.

Skills

Community nursing

Holistic care

Collaboration

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification (Degree or equivalent)

Postgraduate education related to client group

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Client:

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Oxford, United Kingdom

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

29.05.2025

Expiry Date:

13.07.2025

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Job overview

Are you ready to support young people and their families in the community, preventing hospital admissions?

We’re seeking an experienced nurse from a community CAMHS, crisis team, or inpatient background. This could be a secondment opportunity for those looking to gain unique experience in an evolving, specialist team.

Based at the Warneford site in Oxford, the team works to prevent hospital admissions and enable early discharges, collaborating closely with services across the Thames Valley.

We offer a supportive, inclusive environment with bespoke training, CPD, supervision, and wellbeing support. Full-time or part-time roles (minimum 22.5 hours) are available with flexible working options.

A driving license and access to transport are essential for community visits. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Main duties of the job

As part of the nursing team, you will have a wide range of knowledge across the fields of nursing, providing holistic and person-centred care and support for young people and their families/ carers within a variety of settings.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Undertake specialist nursing assessments in collaboration with the service user and their families/carers and presenting back to the wider MDT. This will include clear risk assessments and add to the formulation of presenting needs for the young person and
  family.
• Work in partnership with service users and their families/carers to ensure the development of a treatment plan to facilitate their safety, promote their well-being and support their independence and inclusion in the community.
• Regularly review care and outcomes, supporting service users to complete clinical outcome measures and monitoring progress and adapting treatment options as required.
• Support and supervise junior members of the team and to act as a mentor/preceptor to student nurses/trainees.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:“Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are:“Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

In your supporting statement, please outline in detail why you are interested in applying for this role.

Person specification

Knowledge requirements

• Experience of working with clients with a learning disability and/or Autism
• Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession
• Have an understanding of CMHTs and interdisciplinary working

Qualifications

• Professional Qualification RNM or RNC or RNLD (Degree or equivalent)
• Post graduate education specifically relating to client group

Further training

• Ability to work well in a team, to maintain high standards of care and be a good role model

Experience

• Ability to at times manage in a stressful/challenging working environment
• Community work with people with mental health needs.
• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing