Registered Nurse (Community Nursing)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves assessing, providing, and reviewing nursing care for patients and carers within their homes or appropriate care settings. The aim is to maintain patients in their preferred place of care, maximizing independence and quality of life. You will work under the direction of a Community Specialist Nurse and Nurse Team Manager, managing a designated caseload and deputizing when necessary. This is a fixed-term position until April 2027 within the Honiton Community Nursing team.
Key responsibilities
- Assess, provide, and review nursing care, advice, and information to patients and carers in their home environment or appropriate care setting.
- Maintain patients in their own preferred place of care, enabling them to maximise their independence and optimise their quality of life.
- Work under the direction of the Community Specialist Nurse and Nurse Team Manager.
- Hold a designated caseload and deputise in the absence of the Community Specialist Nurse.
- Provide person-centred care based on holistic nursing assessment to plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care.
- Promote and support self-management, manage long-term conditions, prevent hospital admission, and support early discharge.
Essential criteria
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
Desirable criteria
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
- General Requirements
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
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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Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Registered Nurse (Community Nursing)
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
The Role of the Community Nurse is to
- To assess, provide and review nursing care, advice and information to patients and carers within the home environment or appropriate care setting in a safe and professional manner using evidence based knowledge.
- Aim to wherever possible maintain patients in their own preferred place of care, enabling them to maximise their independence and optimise their quality of life.
- To work under the direction of the Community Specialist Nurse and the Nurse Team Manager (Community or Hospital) using their skills and knowledge as a Registered Nurse.
- To be expected to hold a designated caseload and deputise in the absence of the Community Specialist Nurse.
Main duties of the job
For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.
About us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover mo
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