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Job summary

Main area
Community Nursing
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Service covers 8am - 8pm - shifts include 8-4pm / 8-6pm or 12 -8pm)
Job ref
186-354-25-GH
Employer
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Cotgrave Health Centre
Town
Cotgrave
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/04/2025 23:59

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Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Community Staff Nurse

Band 5

Job overview

Join Nottinghamshire's Community Nursing teams and make a difference! We're looking for kind, caring, and compassionate nurses for our B5 vacancies. Whether you have community experience or not, we welcome you to be part of our supportive and highly encouraging team. 

Whether an experienced or a newly qualified nurse, you'll thrive in our community Nursing workforce. Our Community Nursing teams take pride in the positive impact they have on patients' lives every day. You will become an expert clinician in wound care, palliative care, continence care and the care of patients with long term conditions. If you have the passion, drive, and ability to deliver high-quality care, we want you to join #TeamNottsHC.   

Join us as a Band 5 Staff Nurse, full-time, in a substantive position. Our service operates from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week, offering flexibility in working hours. An additional team of Nurses and HCA’s offer a robust, reactive evening and night Nursing team.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for providing skilled nursing care and will work flexibly supporting the team to deliver high quality integrated care. You will need to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful and approachable. 

Providing integrated care following a holistic assessment which enables patients to be cared for in their own homes and clinic settings.  You will facilitate the prevention of unnecessary hospital admission/re-admission by reducing the effects of ill health and disability and maximising the individual’s potential for independence.

A robust induction and competency-based development package will be provided. Newly qualified staff will be offered a preceptorship programme

Working for our organisation

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

#TeamNottsHC

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Aspects of the role include:

  • To assess, plan, implement, promote and evaluate safe, creative and effective treatment plans in collaboration with the patient’s diverse needs, their carers and other professionals
  • Deliver interventions that are evidenced based
  • Be responsible for the safe monitoring, management and administration of medication
  • Work autonomously, building leadership skills and advanced clinical assessment skills
  • You will build effective relationships with patients, their carers, family and colleagues across the MDT
  • You will develop exceptional planning and organisational skills
  • You will be able to analyse care and treatment provided, and develop sound clinical decision making
  • You will be trained to deliver high quality care and develop
  • Knowledge in all areas including palliative care, leg ulcer management, acute and chronic wound care, understand bladder and bowel dysfunctions, provide supportive care to carers and family members
  • You will delegate and support junior staff, building leadership skills

A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

We would offer you:

  • Clinical and managerial supervision.
  • Full induction and training. 
  • Competitive mileage rates.
  • No night shifts
  • Health and wellbeing service including but not limited too, occupational health, MSK  services,  staff counselling and support services.
  • A range of flexible working options
  • Incentive schemes: childcare scheme, lease care, and travel pass scheme
  • Career progression and future secondment onto the Community Specialist District Nurse Programme

Please note that this post does not meet the pay level required for a Skilled worker visa. Successful applicants with no prior NHS experience would normally be placed at the bottom of the band in line with Agenda for Change. This salary is below the minimum salary required for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa. In these circumstances the Trust would not, therefore, be able to sponsor for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship against the relevant criteria here https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria
  • Professional Qualification (RGN) to degree level or equivalent.
  • Maintains current registration with the NMC
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrate continued professional development to maintain professional registration

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding.
Desirable criteria
  • Specialist and area specific experience.

Contractual

Essential criteria
  • A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Good written/oral communication skills
  • Diplomatic, caring & sympathetic
  • Ability to be flexible
  • Good skills in assessment intervention and evaluation of patients nursing care.
  • IT skills
  • Full UK driving licence
  • Access to vehicle for work purposes

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Katie Grant
Job title
Clinical Lead - Rushcliffe
Telephone number
07790808895
Additional information

Denise McCoid 07717864842

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