Job Description

This is full time post, but we would consider applicants looking for part time.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Nurse to join the Neighbourhood Team in Bromsgrove. This will give you a rewarding opportunity to provide optimal nursing care to patients in their own home. The diverse role includes wound care, palliative care, continence care, diabetes management, medication administration, urgent care response and IV therapy alongside patient centre assessments and care planning.
Shift patterns 07.30-15.30, 08.30-16.30, 09.30-17.30 and 10.30-18.30. Flexible working opportunities available, will discuss these at interview.
You should have excellent clinical, written and verbal communication skills. In return we offer a great team environment, learning and development opportunities and supervision support. We will provide you with exciting development opportunities, excellent induction package and a supportive team environment.
Due to the nature of the posts the applicant must be able to travel independently.
Join our team, we pride ourselves in providing outstanding care to patients across Herefordshire and Worcestershire. We will provide you with resources to develop and progress a long term career as well as flexibility, continual professional development as well as a wide range of wellbeing and support. If you would like to discuss informally, get in touch with Recruiting Manager which can be found on the top right-hand side of the advert.
Main duties of the job
A typical day as community nurse may start with greeting a diabetic patient and administering their insulin, followed by supporting patients at the end of their life to ensure gold standard care is delivered. You may then visit a few patients to dress a leg ulcer or post op wound, followed by changing a catheter to flushing a patients central line. Following a morning of visits you will return to the office for your team handover, this gives you the opportunity to discuss complex situations with your colleagues and undertake clinical supervision. You may then be called out to an urgent care response visit where a patient needs to be seen and assessed within 2 hours. No day is the same within the community and each day is as rewarding as the next, whether youve healed a leg ulcer or given a patient the best possible care at the end of their life. One thing we promise you is that community nursing is never boring!
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

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Details
Date posted
29 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
xc2xa329,970 to xc2xa336,483 a year pro rata for part time
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
C9798-1451
Job locations
Princess Of Wales Community Hospital
Stourbridge Road
Bromsgrove
Worcestershire
B61 0BB
Job description
Job responsibilities
Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on 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 to patients.
Work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated team providing rapid and planned 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 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 and implement appropriate packages of care.
Regularly take responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the Senior Community Nurse.
The ability to provide rapid assessment of situations when needed and to offer solutions and advice immediately.
For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached. Job description
Job responsibilities
Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on 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 to patients.
Work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated team providing rapid and planned 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 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 and implement appropriate packages of care.
Regularly take responsibility for the caseload in the absence of the Senior Community Nurse.
The ability to provide rapid assessment of situations when needed and to offer solutions and advice immediately.
For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience gained during Pre-Registration training.

Desirable

• 2 years post registration experience.
• Community nursing experience.
• Experience of management of caseloads.

Knowledge
Essential

• 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, clinical governance.

Desirable

• Competence in male and suprapubic catheterisation.
• Venepuncture and IV therapy.
• Cannulation.
• Management of syringe drivers.

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Nurse (RN1)
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Desirable

• Accredited courses in palliative care, tissue viability, Diabetes.
• Mentor award.

Additional Criteria
Essential

• Versatile and adaptable.
• Self-motivated and able to motivate others.
• Team player.
• Able to cope under pressure.
• Compassion and empathy skills.
• Able to meet the travel requirements of the role.

Desirable

• An ability to work in a variety of settings.
• Willingness to undertake further training.

Skills and Abilities
Essential

• Ability to challenge poor behaviour.
• Role modelling good behaviour that supports team working.
• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback.
• Ability to praise and be supportive to others.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Basic IT skills.
• Flexible, lateral thinker.
• Reflective practitioner.
• Proven ability to motivate others.
• Able to work competently without supervision and set own priorities.
• Responsible for own professional development.
• Ability to understand professional and ethical issues.
• Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience gained during Pre-Registration training.

Desirable

• 2 years post registration experience.
• Community nursing experience.
• Experience of management of caseloads.

Knowledge
Essential

• 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, clinical governance.

Desirable

• Competence in male and suprapubic catheterisation.
• Venepuncture and IV therapy.
• Cannulation.
• Management of syringe drivers.

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Nurse (RN1)
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Desirable

• Accredited courses in palliative care, tissue viability, Diabetes.
• Mentor award.

Additional Criteria
Essential

• Versatile and adaptable.
• Self-motivated and able to motivate others.
• Team player.
• Able to cope under pressure.
• Compassion and empathy skills.
• Able to meet the travel requirements of the role.

Desirable

• An ability to work in a variety of settings.
• Willingness to undertake further training.

Skills and Abilities
Essential

• Ability to challenge poor behaviour.
• Role modelling good behaviour that supports team working.
• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback.
• Ability to praise and be supportive to others.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Basic IT skills.
• Flexible, lateral thinker.
• Reflective practitioner.
• Proven ability to motivate others.
• Able to work competently without supervision and set own priorities.
• Responsible for own professional development.
• Ability to understand professional and ethical issues.
• Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance.