District Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 22.5
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
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 role is for a motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 NMC registered District Nurse to join the South Tandridge team. You will manage a caseload of patients, providing high standards of care in their homes to avoid hospital admission and promote self-care. The role involves line management responsibilities and supporting the team's development. You will work collaboratively with patients, carers, and health and social care colleagues, requiring a flexible approach to working weekends and bank holidays.
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to lead and manage a team
- Ability to organise the workload, delegate and prioritise
- Good IT skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to assess holistically to plan, implement and evaluate care
- Ability to motivate and teach patients, families and carers to support self-care
- Time management and prioritisation
- Ability to work without supervision
- Excellent decision-making skills in an unpredictable environment
- Other
- Reliable and flexible
- Ability to work well in stressful situations
- Innovative and assertive
- Motivated, and enthusiastic
- Respectful to colleagues and supportive of senior managers
- Registered Nurse (RN1)
- Specialist Practice Qualification in District Nursing
- Mentor- Practice assessor and supervisor
- [contact details removed] current nursing workforce issues
- Experience in quality improvement
- Experience of risk management
- Evidence of post registration experience and study at level 6
- Evidence of professional development with a broad range of clinical skills
- Evidence of team management and MDT working
- Experience of initiating and participating in quality improvement
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to lead and manage a team
- Ability to organise the workload, delegate and prioritise
- Good IT skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to assess holistically to plan, implement and evaluate care
- Ability to motivate and teach patients, families and carers to support self-care
- Time management and prioritisation
- Ability to work without supervision
- Excellent decision-making skills in an unpredictable environment
- Other
- Reliable and flexible
- Ability to work well in stressful situations
- Innovative and assertive
- Motivated, and enthusiastic
- Respectful to colleagues and supportive of senior managers
- Registered Nurse (RN1)
- Specialist Practice Qualification in District Nursing
- Mentor- Practice assessor and supervisor
- [contact details removed] current nursing workforce issues
- Experience in quality improvement
- Experience of risk management
- Evidence of post registration experience and study at level 6
- Evidence of professional development with a broad range of clinical skills
- Evidence of team management and MDT working
- Experience of initiating and participating in quality improvement
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.
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First Community Health and Care
District Nurse
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
Are
you a motivated and enthusiastic District Nurse with a Specialist Practice
Qualification looking to continue developing you career providing NHS care?
We
are looking for a highly skilled and enthusiastic Band 6 NMC registered District
Nurse to join our South Tandridge team.
You
will need to be forward thinking, motivated and able to work collaboratively
with patients, their carers and health and social care colleagues.
You
need to have a flexible approach to working some weekends and bank holidays as
the teams provide a 365 day service.
This role is part-time, 22.5
hours per week (potentially 30 hours) across a 7 day a week service, with an
expectation to travel across the geographical patch.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of a team, you will be supported by the Team Lead to be
responsible for the continued management of a caseload of patients. You will be
working with other health care professionals across the neighbourhood, providing
high standards of care to people in their own homes who have a wide range of
nursing needs; aiming to avoid hospital admission, promoting self-care and
enabling people to be cared for in their preferred place.
As a District Nurse you will have line management responsibilities and
will support the Team Lead with the
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