Community Registered Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- 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 Community Registered Nurse role involves coordinating patient care through holistic, evidence-based practices in accordance with national and organisational policies. You will act as an autonomous practitioner, assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care for housebound individuals and those in care homes. The role focuses on improving health outcomes and patient experience through expert advice, clinical support, and treatment, including wound, medication, and continence management, and active involvement with end-of-life care. You will also support the Community Sister/Charge Nurse in their absence and contribute to multidisciplinary teams.
Essential criteria
- 1st Level Nurse Registration (degree or diploma) NMC Registration
- Willingness to undertake further education around management of longterm conditions.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Previous community nursing experience.
- Experience of a variety of healthcare settings
- Knowledge of recent developments within health and social care
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- Keeps up to date with evidence - based practice and research related to nursing and health care in the community
- Ability to operate community equipment
- Ability to identify and pass on urgent client information to the senior staff
- Experience of working in field as described in job purpose.
- Additional requirements
- Ability to frequently travel independently and in a timely manner between Livewell Southwest sites and community locations including areas not served by public transport.
- The role may require a variety of shift patterns and ability to work flexibly.
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- Creates and fosters a culture of openness, honesty, integrity and inclusiveness.
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- Demonstrate commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes.
- Occupational Health clearance to enable clinical skills to be performed, i.e., removal of sutures, venepuncture & IV therapy
- Ability to use initiative and work autonomously.
- Ability to decision make and problem solve.
- Good time management and delegation skills.
- Ability to assess patients and make appropriate referrals and recommendations using evidence-based practice.
- Strong analytical and judgement skills, with the ability to interpret complex situations and make appropriate decisions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers and the public.
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
- Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
- Ability to undertake nursing skills and to prioritise visits in accordance with patient need.
- Ability to organise own workload without direct supervision.
- Ability to input data manually and electronically according to organisational policies.
- Work within agreed Policies and procedures.
- Effective communication and interactive skills including oral, written and IT
- Ability to act as a champion for patients/carers and their interests, ensuring the patients voice has an impact on service developments.
- Advanced knowledge and competence in Tissue Viability
- Advanced knowledge and competence Bladder & Bowel
- Advanced knowledge and competence End Of Life
- Advanced knowledge and competence Diagnostic skills
- Advanced knowledge and competence Experience of managing a caseload.
- Team worker and ability to work alone
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- Ability to listen to and communicate with patients and carers in a compassionate and
- caring manner
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- Presentation skills or teaching to individuals e.g., patients and to small groups for example students
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- Up to date knowledge of current practice within the area specified in job purpose.
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- Understanding of Clinical Supervision and continued professional development.
- Relevant post
- registration courses/knowledge base relevant to post.
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- Evidence of up to date mandatory training and completion of competency frameworks.
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- Understanding of
- Community Nursing service and local issue
- 1st Level Nurse Registration (degree or diploma) NMC Registration
- Willingness to undertake further education around management of longterm conditions.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Previous community nursing experience.
- Experience of a variety of healthcare settings
- Knowledge of recent developments within health and social care
- -
- Keeps up to date with evidence - based practice and research related to nursing and health care in the community
- Ability to operate community equipment
- Ability to identify and pass on urgent client information to the senior staff
- Experience of working in field as described in job purpose.
- Additional requirements
- Ability to frequently travel independently and in a timely manner between Livewell Southwest sites and community locations
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 1d ago · Closes in 5d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Livewell Southwest
Community Registered Nurse
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
Up to 37.5 hrs per week available.
As an NHS provider, we are at the forefront of Community Nursing. We invite you to discuss our career opportunities. Please call [contact details removed] on [phone number removed]
Our core hours are 0800-17:30 & are open to discuss any working pattern within these hours, to enable you to get the balance of home & work life that suits.
The role requires positivity & excellent communication, leadership & caseload management abilities. A need to demonstrate integrity & initiative, sound clinical knowledge with evidenced based practice & the ability to support the team, approaching your work in a co-ordinated way
We work integrated with primary care, adult social care, therapists, urgent & intermediate care services alongside our specialist services informing our ageing well MDTs which facilitates shaping our future to deliver great quality care for housebound individuals.
We strive to improve health outcomes & patient experience. This role supports people in their own home and care homes with our Care Home Service. Through expert advice & clinical support & treatment, promoting the optimum quality of life. Whilst providing an effective & efficient service delivery, utilising health promotion, wound, medication & continence management. Tak
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