Community Staff Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 04/10/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an NMC Registered Band 5 Nurse to join the Home First Team in South Staffordshire. The role involves providing clinical support to patients in the community, aiming to prevent hospital admissions or facilitate safe discharges through the Discharge to Assess Pathway 1. You will deliver quality care to patients with complex needs, promoting self-care and independence, and working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team. The position requires working shift patterns covering a 24/7 period and independent travel across a large geographical area.
Essential criteria
- Degree in Nursing or equivalent
- Registration with NMC
- Commitment to work towards Mentorship Qualification
- Evidence of/willing to undertake post-registration training relevant to the post
- Must have experience of working in a community setting
Desirable criteria
- Working towards Mentorship Qualification
- Relevant experience/placements to the role including assessment and management of long term conditions, post-operative conditions and wound care
- Ability to manage time and caseload effectively
- Supporting service users, families and carers in dealing with people with nursing needs
- Experience of the delivery of healthcare
- Relevant placements including surgical and medical
- Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Evidence of clinical knowledge relevant to the post, with knowledge of care planning
- Understanding of Information Governance and Data Protection
- NMC standards and Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
- Basic IT Skills
- Initiate and participate in networks and discussion groups
- Discharge and transfer individuals where appropriate
- Provision of support and direction to student nurses, Promoting Independence Workers, Assistant Practitioners and new starters
- Prioritise treatment and care for individuals according to their health status and needs
- Awareness of standardised assessments and outcome measures
- Awareness of relevant NSF's and NICE Guidance
- Personal Attributes
- Working across comunity settings and have the ability to travel within a geographical area to meet the requirements of the post
- Flexibility with working hours to enable 7 day working
- Flexibility in terms of which base you will be required to work from
- Qualifications and Training
- Degree in Nursing or equivalent
- Registration with NMC
- Commitment to work towards Mentorship Qualification
- Evidence of/willing to undertake post-registration training relevant to the post
- Must have experience of working in a community setting
- Working towards Mentorship Qualification
- Relevant experience/placements to the role including assessment and management of long term conditions, post-operative conditions and wound care
- Ability to manage time and caseload effectively
- Supporting service users, families and carers in dealing with people with nursing needs
- Experience of the delivery of healthcare
- Relevant placements including surgical and medical
- Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Evidence of clinical knowledge relevant to the post, with knowledge of care planning
- Understanding of Information Governance and Data Protection
- NMC standards and Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
- Basic IT Skills
- Initiate and participate in networks and discussion groups
- Discharge and transfer individuals where appropriate
- Provision of support and direction to student nurses, Promoting Independence Workers, Assistant Practitioners and new starters
- Prioritise treatment and care for individuals according to their health status and needs
- Awareness of standardised assessments and outcome measures
- Awareness of relevant NSF's and NICE Guidance
- Personal Attributes
- Working across comunity settings and have the ability to travel within a geographical area to meet the requirements of the post
- Flexibility with working hours to enable 7 day working
- Flexibility in terms of which base you will be required to work from
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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Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Community Staff Nurse
The closing date is 04 October 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a NMC Registered Band 5 Nurse to work within the Home First Team (Discharge to Assess Pathway 1 based in South Staffordshire).
The Home First Team provides clinical support for patients in the community to either avoid potential hospital admissions or to support people to return home through the Discharge to Assess Pathway 1 following a period of acute care in hospital.
We pride ourselves on the delivery of quality care to community patients, many with complex needs and we actively promote the philosophy of self-care and the promotion of independence whilst offering the facilities of rehabilitation and assessment. The ethos of the team is to facilitate safe hospital discharges for patients leaving acute care and to offer them nursing support in their own home environment so they can remain in their own home and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
As an efficient and effective team member you will work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team alongside the Operational Leadership to ensure high quality care delivery to service users and provide specialist assessment and care planning in conjunction with service users and carers.
Due to the nature of this role, you will be required to work shift patterns covering
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