Community Continuing Care Team Sister/Charge Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced and motivated Registered Nurse (RN/RMN) to join a developing community-based Continuing Healthcare, Palliative and End of Life Care service in Carmarthenshire. The post holder will combine community outreach with acute hospital in-reach, focusing on early identification, assessment, care coordination, and discharge planning. You will provide senior clinical oversight, leadership, and support to multidisciplinary teams, aiming to improve patient outcomes and experience in a seven-day service.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (Part 1) or Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)
- Current NMC Registration
- Bachelor degree (or equivalent experience)
- Pertinent postgraduate diploma (or equivalent development/ experience and a willingness to undertake appropriate post graduate diploma level study)
- Understanding of wider nursing and health care related agenda
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification (or equivalent experience)
- Recognised management qualification
- Community Nurse Prescriber
- Specialist Practice Award in District Nursing
- Bronze IQT
- Appropriate experience within community/specialty and able to demonstrate sound knowledge, including experience of caring for people with life-limiting illness and/or cognitive impairment.
- Able to demonstrate sound knowledge of NMC Code (2015)
- Experience of working in a multi-professional environment
- Experience of working collaboratively across acute and community settings to support timely assessment, care planning and coordinated patient flow.
- Experience of running a ward/area/department
- Experience of working with preregistration nursing / midwifery students
- Experience of formal /informal teaching and of mentoring preregistration nursing or midwifery students
- Experience of coordinating a team
- Experience of facilitating learning in and from practice
- Previous experience of leadership and management
- Awareness of current issues in nursing and specialty
- Awareness of financial and resource management
- Language Skills
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1)
- Qualifications and Knowledge
- Registered Nurse (Part 1) or Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)
- Current NMC Registration
- Bachelor degree (or equivalent experience)
- Pertinent postgraduate diploma (or equivalent development/ experience and a willingness to undertake appropriate post graduate diploma level study)
- Understanding of wider nursing and health care related agenda
- Teaching qualification (or equivalent experience)
- Recognised management qualification
- Community Nurse Prescriber
- Specialist Practice Award in District Nursing
- Bronze IQT
- Appropriate experience within community/specialty and able to demonstrate sound knowledge, including experience of caring for people with life-limiting illness and/or cognitive impairment.
- Able to demonstrate sound knowledge of NMC Code (2015)
- Experience of working in a multi-professional environment
- Experience of working collaboratively across acute and community settings to support timely assessment, care planning and coordinated patient flow.
- Experience of running a ward/area/department
- Experience of working with preregistration nursing / midwifery students
- Experience of formal /informal teaching and of mentoring preregistration nursing or midwifery students
- Experience of coordinating a team
- Experience of facilitating learning in and from practice
- Previous experience of leadership and management
- Awareness of current issues in nursing and specialty
- Awareness of financial and resource management
- Language Skills
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1)
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £40,559 – £48,841 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Hywel Dda University Health Board
Community Continuing Care Team Sister/Charge Nurse
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
Become a part of a developing service at the forefront of community-based Continuing Healthcare, Palliative and End of Life Care in Carmarthenshire. We are looking for experienced and motivated Registered Nurses (RN/RMN) to undertake a innovative Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse role that combines community outreach with acute hospital in-reach.
Working across community and acute settings, you will play a pivotal role in early identification, assessment, care coordination, discharge planning and clinical decision-making, helping people receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time.
We are looking for dynamic nurses with excellent clinical, leadership and communication skills who are passionate about delivering person-centred care and improving outcomes for people with complex, life-limiting conditions. You will provide senior clinical oversight to support safe delegation, governance, and workforce development, while working closely with multidisciplinary teams, families and partner organisations to deliver seamless care across care pathways.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a developing seven-day service that supports people to remain in their preferred place of care, prevents unnecessary hospital admissions a
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