Community Sister / Charge Nurse / District Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 28/08/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Sister, Charge Nurse, or District Nurse to join a Primary Care Home team in South Waveney, delivering high-quality community nursing care. The position involves clinical practice, leadership, and management, including line management of clinicians and participation in HR processes. You will work within a multidisciplinary team providing services 7 days a week, with core shifts and rotational weekend/bank holiday work. The ideal candidate is motivated, adaptable, and forward-thinking, with a desire to improve clinical practice.
Essential criteria
- Professional Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)
- BSc in Nursing Practice or equivalent.
- Evidence of continued professional development and a professional portfolio.
- Leadership/ management qualification or willing to undertake.
- Health Coaching programme.
Desirable criteria
- Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing.
- Community Nurse Prescriber v100 /v150.
- Independent non- medical prescriber.
- Experience working within a similar field of nursing/healthcare
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with frail older adults and awareness of the complex issues relating to this client group
- Previous experience at band 6 level.
- Clinical experience gained in a community/intermediate care setting.
- Student supervision/clinical education.
- Experience of clinical audit.
- Experience of successful change management.
- Experience of facilitating clinical supervision.
- Additional Criteria
- SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
- Ability to deal sensitively with patients who may have high levels of anxiety.
- Capacity to concentrate for considerable periods of time during assessment and management of patients and be expected to respond immediately to interruptions.
- Must have an understanding of the legal and ethical issues pertaining to nursing.
- Leadership skills.
- Assessment and patient management skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Negotiating and influencing skills.
- Good IT skills.
- Effective organisation and time management skills.
- PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Able to work both collaboratively within a team and independently.
- Able to contribute to team, service and organisational development.
- Commitment to person centred, non-discriminatory practice.
- Aware of requirements for confidentiality.
- Forward thinking with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Able to maintain judgment under pressure.
- Able to maintain motivation, drive, enthusiasm.
- Flexible approach to work and participate in various shift patterns.
- Access to transport and ability to travel around the community.
- Due to the variety of community working, the ability will be needed to access a diverse range of properties.
- To carry out assessments.
- Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours: (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
- Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.
- Experience of I.V. medication administration
- Professional Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)
- BSc in Nursing Practice or equivalent.
- Evidence of continued professional development and a professional portfolio.
- Leadership/ management qualification or willing to undertake.
- Health Coaching programme.
- Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing.
- Community Nurse Prescriber v100 /v150.
- Independent non- medical prescriber.
- Experience working within a similar field of nursing/healthcare
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with frail older adults and awareness of the complex issues relating to this client group
- Previous experience at band 6 level.
- Clinical experience gained in a community/intermediate care setting.
- Student supervision/clinical education.
- Experience of clinical audit.
- Experience of successful change management.
- Experience of facilitating clinical supervision.
- Additional Criteria
- SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
- Ability to deal sensitively with patients who may have high levels of anxiety.
- Capacity to concentrate for considerable periods of time during assessment and management of patients and be expected to respond immediately to interruptions.
- Must have an understanding of the legal and ethical issues pertaining to nursing.
- Leadership skills.
- Assessment and patient management skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Negotiating and influencing skills.
- Good IT skills.
- Effective organisation and time management skills.
- PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Able to work bot
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 10d ago · Closes in 7d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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East Coast Community Healthcare CIC
Community Sister / Charge Nurse / District Nurse
The closing date is 13 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Sister / Charge Nurse / District Nurse to join our Primary Care Home team delivering high quality nursing care to the population of South Waveney which includes Beccles, Bungay, Halesworth, Southwold and Kessingland. If you are motivated, adaptable, forward thinking and you see yourself leading within community healthcare, then this could be the role for you.
The role contains variety every day with a mixture of face to face clinical practice, leadership and management. You will be responsible for the line management of a number of clinicians, have the opportunity to participate in HR processes including recruitment, appraisals and supporting junior members of the team. We welcome applicants who have a desire to improve clinical practice.
This role sits in a multidisciplinary team providing community services 7 days per week 07:00 - 20:30 hours
The core nursing shift is 08:30 - 16:30. Other shifts included in the rota are 07:00 - 15:00 and 12:00 - 20:00. Weekend and bank holiday working on a rotational basis.
The post is offered up to 37.5 hours per week.
Please contact [contact details removed] - Nurse Lead ([email removed] [phone number removed]) if you would like any further information or
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