Senior Community Nurse

Senior Community Nurse

The closing date is 02 November 2025

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

The EBBI Neighbourhood Team is a friendly, fun loving, flexible, and hardworking team who are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join us at our base in Evesham. This is a part time post working 34 hours per week.

The Neighbourhood Team is looking to recruit a senior community nurse who is happy to work across our whole patch, who is innovative and keen to join the team in supporting us to deliver high quality care, and to continue our development of integrated care in the community.

You should be excited by change and keen to help shape a new way of delivering nursing care in the community. We have a team of creative health care professionals who are focused on compassionate care. We work closely with our GPs and work hard at developing relationships with other primary care services, drawing on the skills of our MDT colleagues to manage complex patients and ensure our services are as responsive and patient centred as possible.

We are a supportive team who are committed to developing services to provide the most individual care for our patients. We offer dedicated time for training and clinical supervision.

We will provide you with resources to develop and progress a long term career as well as flexibility, continual professional development and a wide range of wellbeing and support. Please get in touch with Recruiting Manager which can be found on the top right hand side of the advert.

Main duties of the job

• The ability to communicate effectively with others at all levels
• Working flexibly to provide the service delivery need across the local area (the service operates from 7:30am to 6:30pm, Monday to Sunday including bank holidays)
• An enthusiastic, motivated, and innovative thinker to become part of a primary care facing community
• The ability to work autonomously and manage your own case load whilst supervising others and working within a multi disciplinary team
• The ability to problem solve and manage time effectively
• Experience of working in a fast paced and varied environment
• The ability to travel/have own vehicle to deliver care services

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 value diversity 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

The post holder will:

Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on a day to day basis.

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

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

Work as an autonomous practitioner with the integrated care team providing rapid and planned expert professional assessment and treatment interventions to patients in their own homes or other community settings to enable patients to maximise their independence, health and wellbeing and remain in their own homes for as long as possible. This will be achieved through a combination of hands on expert clinical skills and knowledge to treat, educate and support patients on a designated caseload and by working with patients and their carers to assess, plan, implement and evaluate their ongoing care and support needs in their own home or temporary/usual place of residence.

Demonstrate expert clinical knowledge, health promotion and holistic assessment skills and will work with the patient and their carers to assess, plan, implement and evaluate their ongoing care and support needs in their own home or temporary/usual place of residence.

Support the Operational and Clinical Team leaders in the delivery of best nursing practice, be involved in triage, allocation of work and leadership of other staff, manage team resources and deputise in their absence.

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

Person Specification Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN1)
• Specialist practitioner District Nursing (degree / diploma) or equivalent level nursing qualification
• Non medical prescriber (V150) or will be required to undertake this qualification on commencement in post
• Evidence of on-going continuing professional development
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
• Prescribing Qualification or willingness to undertake
• Post graduate modules in Leadership
• Practice Assessor

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to challenge poor behaviour
• Role modelling good behaviour that supports teamworking
• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
• Ability to praise and be supportive to others
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly in English in both written and verbal formats
• High level of clinical skills
• Time management and organisation skills
• Ability to work independently and set own priorities
• Teaching skills
• Advanced assessment skills

Experience

• Significant post registration experience in a variety of clinical settings
• Experience of management of caseloads or wards and teams
• Experience of active participation in interdisciplinary team working
• Transcribing medication training
• Clinical audit/service improvement and development work

Knowledge

• High level of clinical knowledge and skill
• Clinical Governance
• Good knowledge of community services and care pathways
• Health Improvement
• Good working knowledge of positive risk taking and effective risk management strategies
• Understanding of National and local health and social care strategies
• Working knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and Care Act
• Understanding of an Integrated Care System and the Neighbourhood Teams role within the wider system.

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