Community Staff Nurse - Thame
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Posted
- 26/08/2026
- Closes
- 09/09/2026
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 an exciting 12-month fixed-term opportunity for a Community Staff Nurse to join the District Nursing team in the Thame/Princes Risborough area. The role involves providing high-quality nursing care to complex patients in their own homes and residential settings, aiming to prevent acute admissions. You will work within a multidisciplinary team, developing autonomous practice in areas like medication administration, wound care, and end-of-life care. A full skills development and preceptorship programme is offered.
Key responsibilities
- Work within a locality team to meet the needs of complex patients in the community.
- Administer medication, provide end-of-life care, and manage deteriorating patients.
- Perform complex and simple wound care, including negative pressure wound therapy and compression therapy.
- Conduct venepuncture and utilise advanced assessment and clinical nursing skills.
- Nurse patients with various conditions holistically in their homes and residential care settings.
- Collaborate closely with social care, GPs, community therapies, and specialised services.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas: ? Care of Elderly ? Community ? Orthopaedics ? Neurology ? Respiratory ? Palliative Care ? Long term conditions
- Registered Nurse or student nurse awaiting confirmation of NMC registration
- Car driver / owner able to travel to other locations within the Trust
Desirable criteria
- Desirable but not essential knowledge of working with a single assessment, planning and the delivery of care.
- Experience of electronic clinical systems and technology e.g. RIO
- Committed to own professional development to enhance practice
- Post registration education and extended skills e.g. Intravenous drug administration, compression dressings.
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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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Community Staff Nurse - Thame
The closing date is 09 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an aspiring individual to develop experience in the specialised area of District Nursing. This opportunity is now available in the Thame/ Princes Risborough area - 12 months contract to cover for Maternity leave. You will be supported to become a Community Nurse within a newly formed team. We are welcoming highly motivated and effective team players, committed to providing a high quality nursing service within the District Nursing field. We are able to offer**** a full skills development and preceptorship programme.
We are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. Whether you are newly qualified or looking for a change in direction, we would welcome your application for this exciting opportunity to join the community nursing workforce. As a community nurse, you would be supported to develop into an autonomous practitioner; nursing patients with multiple complex health care needs in their own home.
Main duties of the job
Community nursing is a specialised area of practice. As a Community Staff Nurse, you will work within a locality team of District Nurse Team Leaders, Community Staff Nurses, Therapists, Assistant Practitioners and Healthcare Assistants, to meet the
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