Community Staff Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for two Community Staff Nurses to join the service in Buckinghamshire, focusing on supporting Healthcare Assistants to deliver high-quality care in patients' homes. Key duties include long-term condition reviews, phlebotomy, continence assessments, and promoting patient independence to prevent hospital admission. The role involves working closely with a multidisciplinary team and requires initiative and adaptability. Both newly qualified and experienced nurses are welcome, with opportunities for training and development. The service operates across a 7-day working pattern.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse/Awaiting NMC PIN
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of further continued professional development
- Post qualification experience in relevant speciality
- Hold / be working towards an NMC approved mentoring qualification
- Ability to understand the role of a registered nurse
- Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
- Awareness of current professional nursing issues
- Post registration experience working in an acute hospital setting
- SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
- Good verbal and written communication skills and ability to negotiate
- Ability to manage and prioritise own caseload with supervision; Willingness to develop teaching skills
- Ability to solve problems and use initiative
- Ability to develop clinical skills
- Willingness to undergo training (e.g. medications) Basic IT skills
- Awareness of the NHSE guidance of clinical governance in order to continuously improve quality of care e.g. quality, safety and ward audit standards
- Knowledge of the NMC code of conduct
- Ability to maintain a safe clinical environment conducive to patient care
- Adaptable to change
- Ability to work rotating shifts
- Diplomatic approach with professionalism
- Flexible and approachable
- Knowledge of care planning, preceptorship, reflection and clinical supervision
- SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
- Able to travel to other sites and off site as necessary
- EDUCATION, QUALIFICATION & TRAINING
- Registered Nurse/Awaiting NMC PIN
- Evidence of further continued professional development
- Post qualification experience in relevant speciality
- Hold / be working towards an NMC approved mentoring qualification
- Ability to understand the role of a registered nurse
- Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
- Awareness of current professional nursing issues
- Post registration experience working in an acute hospital setting
- SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
- Good verbal and written communication skills and ability to negotiate
- Ability to manage and prioritise own caseload with supervision; Willingness to develop teaching skills
- Ability to solve problems and use initiative
- Ability to develop clinical skills
- Willingness to undergo training (e.g. medications) Basic IT skills
- Awareness of the NHSE guidance of clinical governance in order to continuously improve quality of care e.g. quality, safety and ward audit standards
- Knowledge of the NMC code of conduct
- Ability to maintain a safe clinical environment conducive to patient care
- Adaptable to change
- Ability to work rotating shifts
- Diplomatic approach with professionalism
- Flexible and approachable
- Knowledge of care planning, preceptorship, reflection and clinical supervision
- SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
- Able to travel to other sites and off site as necessary
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 9d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Community Staff Nurse
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
Do you live in or want to work within Buckinghamshire ?
Do you want to develop your nursing career within Community Nursing?
We have an exciting opportunity for two Community Staff Nurses to join our service in a new and innovative role working across our seven locality teams.
This role offers a different way of working, with a particular focus on supporting Healthcare Assistants to deliver high-quality care in patients' homes. Key areas of work include long-term condition reviews, phlebotomy, continence assessments and promoting patient independence to prevent hospital admission and support timely discharge.
Working closely with the wider multidisciplinary team, you will be expected to demonstrate initiative, embrace new ways of working and contribute to the delivery of safe, effective, patient-centred care. We welcome applications from both newly qualified and experienced nurses and offer excellent opportunities for training and professional development.
The service operates across a 7-day working pattern.
Main duties of the job
- To contribute to processes for service and quality improvement
- Assess the physical and psycho-social needs of patients and delivertherapeutic interventions based on best available evidence in order to improve health outco
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