Community Staff Nurse

Community Staff Nurse

The closing date is 03 May 2026

Are you looking for a role where no two days are the same?

We are looking for motivated and compassionate Band 5 Community Nurses to join our dynamic locality teams. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver high quality, person centred nursing care to people in their own homes, supporting them to remain independent, safe and well within their community.

This role is ideal for newly qualified nurses, those seeking their first community post, or nurses wanting to broaden their skills and progress with locality teams within a well structured career pathway.

You will be offered a structured preceptorship and, as a community nurse working within the planned care service, you will provide high quality care for people in their own homes, ranging from long term conditions, to complex and palliative care. You'll work on a rotational basis as part of a seven day service, with the support of agile technology to help you deliver timely, high quality care, with support from specialists across the Trust.

Shift patterns are between the hours of 8am and 9pm, seven days per week. We have vacancies across multiple community locality teams.

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:

Benefits

• Increase mileage rates for > 3500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the district nursing team to ensure high quality health care is delivered to patients in their own home and/or clinic setting, and to work in collaboration with the wider Primary Health Care team while participating in the assessment of health needs and delivery of care to the practice population. The service is delivered over a 7 day rota and postholders are expected to work flexibly in line with agreed operating hours to cover a 24 hour service.

Job responsibilities

There are many development opportunities available to you as a community staff nurse to enable you to progress your career and offering promotion to senior nurse or further study to become a qualified specialist practitioner or advanced practitioner. Modes of study include tissue viability or palliative care, among others.

Applicants must be able to regularly travel across the district to meet the needs and demands of the service; therefore a full UK driving licence and access to a car for work is essential.

Please read the attached Job Description and the Person Specification for more information about this role.

Right to work in the UK

Applicants requiring a visa must be aware that the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. If you cannot meet the Trust's sponsorship eligibility, the Trust cannot offer employment beyond the expiry of your current visa.

Prior to appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During your employment, you must notify your manager promptly of any changes to your right to work status.

Failure to maintain the legal right to work in the United Kingdom may result in termination of employment.

Person Specification Experience

• Understanding and/or experience of interagency working and adult protection.

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse (RGN) with active NMC registration.
• Teaching / Assessing in clinical practice.
• V100 prescribing for nursing or equivalent.

Training

• Willingness to undergo education / training for both practice and service need.

Knowledge & Experience

• Demonstrates ongoing professional development.
• Must be able to travel between multiple sites to undertake numerous visits.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. A submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) will be required to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Address

Various Localities across Bradford and Airedale

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.