Community Staff Nurse (Overnight Team)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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 a permanent opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join the Overnight Community Nursing team in York and Scarborough. The team provides unplanned holistic nursing care in patients' homes and community settings, working closely with hospital, social, and primary care colleagues to prevent hospital admissions. The role involves working overnight shifts, supported by a healthcare support worker, across a large geographical area.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Holds or prepared to work towards gaining an NMC recognised mentor qualification
Desirable criteria
- Registered and up to date mentor
- Diploma or degree in healthcare
- Knowledge & Skills
- Post Registration experience of working within Community / or hospital services
- Experience of Clinical supervision
- Relevant skills such as palliative care experience, care of older people
- Skills & Attributes
- Ability to work effectively within an integrated team
- Able to plan, deliver and evaluate programmes of care and promotion of health and well being
- Ability to prioritise work and manage own work time effectively
- Able to communicate effectively
- Demonstrates the ability to teach others
- Presentation skills
- Education & Training
- Registered Nurse
- Holds or prepared to work towards gaining an NMC recognised mentor qualification
- Registered and up to date mentor
- Diploma or degree in healthcare
- Knowledge & Skills
- Post Registration experience of working within Community / or hospital services
- Experience of Clinical supervision
- Relevant skills such as palliative care experience, care of older people
- Skills & Attributes
- Ability to work effectively within an integrated team
- Able to plan, deliver and evaluate programmes of care and promotion of health and well being
- Ability to prioritise work and manage own work time effectively
- Able to communicate effectively
- Demonstrates the ability to teach others
- Presentation skills
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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York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Community Staff Nurse (Overnight Team)
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
If your ambition is to make a difference - please apply. We have an opportunity for a permanent Registered Nurse to join our friendly Overnight Community Nursing team within York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Adult Community Services.
We are a supportive and friendly team and have been recognised many times by the trust as a fantastic team and great asset to the organisation, so if you fancy a change, a move to a beautiful area, joining a professional team full of enthusiasm and humour then this could be the role for you.
The Overnight Community Nursing team is comprised of motivated professionals who work out of the hospital setting delivering generally unplanned holistic nursing care in patient's homes and other community settings. We have close working networks with our hospital, social and primary care colleagues to support patients to stay in their homes and avoid hospital admission. The team also work closely with the hospice at home team and our palliative care support team. The Out of Hours GPs are based at York Hospital and support is also available from the hospital Out of Hours management team.
Main duties of the job
The team serves a large geographical area including the Cit
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