Senior Community Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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 opportunity for a Senior Community Nurse to join the Neighbourhood Teams in Pershore and Upton. The role involves being a role model for junior staff, managing caseloads with strong clinical skills, and delivering high-standard care to patients in their homes. You will provide optimal care, including end-of-life care, wound care, and urgent care response, while also supporting the teaching and learning of nursing students. This position offers a chance to develop your career and contribute to continual service improvement.
Essential criteria
- High level of clinical knowledge and skill
- Understanding of personal contribution to the achievement of organisational objectives within the business plan
- Good knowledge of community services and care pathways
- Good working knowledge of positive risk taking and effective risk management strategies
- Registered Nurse (RN1)
- Graduate Nursing Qualification at Academic Level 6 - or working towards.
- Preceptorship training
- Evidence of on-going continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- District Nursing Specialist Practitioner Qualification
- Prescribing Qualification or willingness to undertake
- Post graduate modules in Leadership
- Practice educator
- Significant post registration experience in a clinical setting - able to demonstrate transferability of experience to community setting
- Experience of management of caseloads or wards and organisation of staff
- Clinical audit/service improvement and development work
- Experience of active participation in interdisciplinary team working
- Transcribing medication training
- Clinical audit/service improvement and development work
- Skills and abilities
- High level of clinical skills
- Time management and organisation skills
- Teaching skills
- Advanced assessment skills
- Additional Criteria
- Able to meet the travel requirements of the role with a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle covered by Business insurance.
- High level of clinical knowledge and skill
- Understanding of personal contribution to the achievement of organisational objectives within the business plan
- Good knowledge of community services and care pathways
- Good working knowledge of positive risk taking and effective risk management strategies
- Registered Nurse (RN1)
- Graduate Nursing Qualification at Academic Level 6 - or working towards.
- Preceptorship training
- Evidence of on-going continuing professional development
- District Nursing Specialist Practitioner Qualification
- Prescribing Qualification or willingness to undertake
- Post graduate modules in Leadership
- Practice educator
- Significant post registration experience in a clinical setting - able to demonstrate transferability of experience to community setting
- Experience of management of caseloads or wards and organisation of staff
- Clinical audit/service improvement and development work
- Experience of active participation in interdisciplinary team working
- Transcribing medication training
- Clinical audit/service improvement and development work
- Skills and abilities
- High level of clinical skills
- Time management and organisation skills
- Teaching skills
- Advanced assessment skills
- Additional Criteria
- Able to meet the travel requirements of the role with a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle covered by Business insurance.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
Senior Community Nurse
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community Nurse to join the Neighbourhood Teams in Pershore and Upton.
We are looking for applicants with a passion for community nursing and delivering a high standard of care for patients. This role involves being a role model for junior members of the team and managing with a compassionate leadership style and a positive outlook to drive continual service improvement.
The successful applicant will have the ability to manage caseloads with evidence of strong clinical skills and decision making. This role will give you the rewarding opportunity to provide optimal care to patients in their own home and to develop your career to the next step. Shift patterns are between 07.30-18.30.
Due to the nature of the posts the applicant must be able to travel independently / have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes and hold a full UK driving license.
If you would like to discuss informally if this is the right role for you, get in touch with Recruiting Manager which can be found on the top right-hand side of the advert.
Applicants must read the attached guidance notes before submitting your application for full understanding of Trust requirements.
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