Community Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves working as part of the Integrated Community Nursing Service on the Isle of Wight, delivering high-quality nursing care to patients in their own homes. The postholder will contribute to safe, compassionate, and evidence-based care, supporting the Trust's commitment to excellence. It requires working flexibly across three locality teams and collaborating with various partners to assess, plan, and deliver care. A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle with business insurance are essential for this community-based role.
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse with current NMC registration
- Awareness of current issues in community nursing
- Clinically up-to-date
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the principles of manual handling and blood borne disease
- Physically capable of performing the role and responsibilities expected of the post holder, e.g. car driver, lone working
- Car driver with clean licence
- Awareness of personal safety
- Professional/role model
- Flexible
- Good interpersonal skills
- Can demonstrate key competencies of the Behavioural Framework
- Awareness of personal safety
- Organisational skills
- Ability to motivate others and maintain own motivation
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written
- Registered nurse with current NMC registration
- Awareness of current issues in community nursing
- Clinically up-to-date
- Knowledge of the principles of manual handling and blood borne disease
- Physically capable of performing the role and responsibilities expected of the post holder, e.g. car driver, lone working
- Car driver with clean licence
- Awareness of personal safety
- Professional/role model
- Flexible
- Good interpersonal skills
- Can demonstrate key competencies of the Behavioural Framework
- Awareness of personal safety
- Organisational skills
- Ability to motivate others and maintain own motivation
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written
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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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Community Nurse
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
The postholder will work as part of the Integrated Community Nursing Service on the Isle of Wight, delivering high quality nursing care to patients in their own homes as part of a rapidly developing community based model. As a Registered Nurse, they will contribute to safe, compassionate and evidence based care, supporting the Trust's commitment to excellence and continuous improvement.
The role involves working flexibly across three locality teams and collaborating closely with a wide range of partners, including Earl Mountbatten Hospice, Urgent Community Response, Allied Health Professionals, GPs, Practice Nurses, Specialist Nurses, mainland hospitals and voluntary or statutory agencies. The postholder will use strong interpersonal and clinical skills to assess, plan and deliver care, ensuring patients receive the right support in the right place.
For this role you are required to hold a full UK driving licence and have access to vehicle that you can use for work that has business insurance cover, as it involves travel across the island. The postholder must be able to work independently within a busy community environment, demonstrate evidence-based practice, and uphold the Trust's values in all interactions with patients, families and col
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