Community Staff Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Community Staff Nurse to join a team providing high-quality, patient-centred nursing care across the Fylde Coast. The role involves working in patients' homes or clinic settings, delivering individualised care, and supporting families. You will be responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating care programmes, monitoring patient conditions, and escalating concerns to senior staff. The position requires an innovative, enthusiastic, and excellent team player with NMC Level 1 Registration and Enhanced DBS clearance.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse level 1
- Current NMC registration
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- Supervisor/Assessor competence or willingness to undertake
Desirable criteria
- Additional Nursing Qualification relevant to continence
- Experience and Knowledge
- Able to deal with difficult situations.
- Ability to Identify and assess patients' needs.
- Ability to use resources appropriately.
- Multidisciplinary working
- Willingness to undertake further training specific to role
- Post registration experience
- Skills and Ability
- Good team worker.
- Ability to organise self and others by prioritising and delegating as needed
- Good time management skills.
- Ability to educate others
- IT literate
- Clinical audit knowledge or ability to participate.
- Willing to develop professionally.
- Up to date knowledge of current NHS issues and aware of current trends in the NHS.
- Ability to confidently make decisions based on evidence based practice
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to communicate sensitive information to patients.
- Ability to ensure equality and value diversity.
- Understand implications of lone working
- Demonstrates personal value that align with the Trust values
- Flexible attitude to work
- Motivated
- Evidence of self-development
- Ability to communicate effectively in English
- Car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport to enable you to undertake the job
- Education and Qualification
- Registered Nurse level 1
- Current NMC registration
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- Supervisor/Assessor competence or willingness to undertake
- Additional Nursing Qualification relevant to continence
- Experience and Knowledge
- Able to deal with difficult situations.
- Ability to Identify and assess patients' needs.
- Ability to use resources appropriately.
- Multidisciplinary working
- Willingness to undertake further training specific to role
- Post registration experience
- Skills and Ability
- Good team worker.
- Ability to organise self and others by prioritising and delegating as needed
- Good time management skills.
- Ability to educate others
- IT literate
- Clinical audit knowledge or ability to participate.
- Willing to develop professionally.
- Up to date knowledge of current NHS issues and aware of current trends in the NHS.
- Ability to confidently make decisions based on evidence based practice
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to communicate sensitive information to patients.
- Ability to ensure equality and value diversity.
- Understand implications of lone working
- Demonstrates personal value that align with the Trust values
- Flexible attitude to work
- Motivated
- Evidence of self-development
- Ability to communicate effectively in English
- Car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport to enable you to undertake the job
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.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 14d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Community Staff Nurse
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the recruitment of Community Nurses based across the Fylde Coast covering clinics . The advertised roles are permanent positions.
If you are innovative, enthusiastic, have a positive attitude to change and you are an excellent team player, we would like you to join our team to enable us to provide high quality, patient centred, holistic nursing care.
NMC Level 1 Registration (Adult Branch) & Enhanced DBS clearance required.
Car driver essential.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will work as part of a community nursing service working across the Fylde coast, undertaking nursing duties in patients' homes or clinic settings.
To provide safe, effective, individualised care to patients and to give support to families and service users requiring scheduled and unscheduled care interventions.
The role includes planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care, initiating changes to care and escalation, if required, to the senior community nurse and the wider team.
To monitor the condition and health needs of patients on a continual basis in partnership with colleagues, families and carers, referring to others for reassessment, when required.
About us
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Found
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