Community Nurse

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust Community Nurse

The closing date is 05 April 2026

An exciting opportunity has come up to join our busy Neighbourhood Team. We are looking for an enthusiastic, hardworking, Band5 Community Nurse to work 37.5 hours per week or 30 hours per week. Community Nursing is an integral part of the NHS 5-year plan with an emphasis now being placed on admission prevention.

You will need to be passionate about community services and shaping a new way of delivering care.

We are an integrated team who work collaboratively and compassionately with therapists, local authority services, the urgent care response team and our colleagues from the Primary Care Network to provide patient centred, responsive care which meets the complex and varying needs of our housebound community.

We are friendly, supportive and inclusive. Whilst we are committed to providing a high standard of holistic, individualised care for our patients, we also value the wellbeing, needs and job satisfaction of our team.

We offer and encourage training and professional development. We have dedicated time for study and clinical supervision and the support of a learning and development team for guidance with career progression.

If you would like to discuss this role, or have any questions, please contact either Justine Knebel () or Helen Hedges () for an informal chat.

Main duties of the job

• The role requires ability to communicate effectively at all levels
• Flexible working to provide care across the local area (the service operates from 7:30am 6:30pm, Monday - Sunday incl bank holidays)
• An enthusiastic, motivated and innovative thinker
• The ability to work autonomously, manage your own case load and work within a multi-disciplinary team
• The ability to problem solve
• Experience of working in a fast paced and varied environment

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We valuediversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit our website.

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Job responsibilities

Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation.

Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.

Use initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work, documentation and the service they provide to patients.

Work as an autonomous practitioner within the wider integrated team providing rapid and planned assessment and treatment interventions to patients in their own homes or other community settings. Promote independence and maximise independence, health and wellbeing with a focus on patients remaining in their own homes for as long as possible.

Regularly take responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the Senior Community Nurse.

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification Additional Criteria

• Self-motivated and able to motivate others
• Work effectively as part of a team
• Able to remain calm under pressure
• Be compassionate and empathetic
• Able to meet the travel requirements of the role
• Willingness to undertake further training.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN1)
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
• Accredited courses in palliative care, tissue viability, Diabetes
• Practice Assessor training

Experience

• Experience gained during Pre-Registration training
• 2 years post registration experience
• Community nursing experience
• Experience of management of caseloads

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to challenge poor behaviour
• Role modelling good behaviour that supports teamworking
• Responsive to constructive feedback
• Ability to praise and be supportive to others
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly in English in both written and verbal formats
• Clear and accurate documentation skills
• Ability to understand professional and ethical issues
• Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance

Knowledge

• Variety of evidence based clinical skills
• Confidence to teach student nurses, trainee nursing associates, patients, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team
• Understanding of evidence-based nursing, multidisciplinary working and clinical governance
• Competence in male and suprapubic catheterisation
• Venepuncture and IV therapy
• Cannulation
• Management of syringe drivers

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

£31,049 to £37,796 a year pro rata for part time. Pay award pending.