Registered Nurse (Community)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing Registered Nursing care to patients in their own homes and residential care homes, covering a wide range of services including wound care, catheter care, and end-of-life care. You will educate patients and their families, work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, and contribute to audits to improve patient care. This is a fixed-term opportunity due to maternity leave, based in Okehampton, requiring a car driver.
Essential criteria
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Desirable criteria
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- General Requirements
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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.
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Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Registered Nurse (Community)
The closing date is 17 September 2026
Job summary
To provide Registered Nursing care to patients in their own homes, including Residential Care Homes, including Wound care, Catheter care, Post op care, End of Life care, Drain management, IV skills, Phlebotomy and much more.
Provide education to patients, their families and formal carers
Multi Disciplinary team working with Therapists and Social Care Colleagues, as well as Primary care.
Contributing to audits and safer staffing tools to help improve patient care
Main duties of the job
For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.
About us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general m
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