Community Staff Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing skilled community nursing care to patients in their homes and clinic settings within Newark. The nurse will conduct holistic assessments to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and maximize patient independence. It requires working flexibly with multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality integrated care, supporting patients with significant physical health needs.
Essential criteria
- Professional Qualification, RGN, educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Maintains current registration with the NMC
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate continued professional development to maintain professional registration
- Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding.
- Specialist and area specific experience.
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Good written/oral communication skills
- Ability to be flexible and handle conflict issues
- Good skills in assessment intervention and evaluation of patients nursing care
- IT skills
- Diplomatic, caring & sympathetic
- Knowledge and understanding of current legislation and understanding of clinical risk assessments
- Knowledge of the nursing 6 c's
- Awareness of national and local issues impacting of nursing care
- Training
- Willingness to undertake new clinical practices, education and training that will enhance service delivery
- Physical requirements
- Has the physical ability to perform the full range of nursing duties
- Contractual Requirements
- Ability to work to meet the needs to the service (including unsocial hours and bank holidays)
- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
- Values and Behaviours
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
- Professional Qualification, RGN, educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Maintains current registration with the NMC
- Demonstrate continued professional development to maintain professional registration
- Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding.
- Specialist and area specific experience.
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Good written/oral communication skills
- Ability to be flexible and handle conflict issues
- Good skills in assessment intervention and evaluation of patients nursing care
- IT skills
- Diplomatic, caring & sympathetic
- Knowledge and understanding of current legislation and understanding of clinical risk assessments
- Knowledge of the nursing 6 c's
- Awareness of national and local issues impacting of nursing care
- Training
- Willingness to undertake new clinical practices, education and training that will enhance service delivery
- Physical requirements
- Has the physical ability to perform the full range of nursing duties
- Contractual Requirements
- Ability to work to meet the needs to the service (including unsocial hours and bank holidays)
- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
- Values and Behaviours
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
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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Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Community Staff Nurse
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
We are very proud of our community nursing service and the difference it makes to people requiring nursing care in their own home. With an increasing complexity of patients in our community, our team provide seamless holistic nursing care to ensure patients receive the right care.
We are looking for an individual to be part of our fast-moving, innovative and ambitious service, dedicated to supporting our communities to manage their own health both at home and in our dedicated clinics.
You will be responsible for providing skilled nursing care to patients across the locality and work flexibly with multi disciplinary teams across our service to support our patients journey.
You will need to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be adaptable, reliable, resourceful and approachable. You'll need to be organised and confident and able to cope with changing environments as you'll be working independently in patients homes, support is always available.
Main duties of the job
Our community teams of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals deliver care to people who present with significant physical health care needs in various settings including clinic based, community inpatient, hospices to care in the patient's own home, i
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