Bank Community Staff Nurse

Job summary

Experienced Community Nurse Band 5 - Community Bank.

Are you a registered nurse with community experience? Are you keen to use your clinical skills in a rewarding community-based role but unable to commit to a permanent position right now?

Bank Staff Nurses are required to join East Coast Community Healthcare's bank workforce working across Gt Yarmouth and Waveney. Are you a Registered Nurse looking for more flexibility with the ability to pick and choose your own shifts?

ECCH is a staff-owned social enterprise, providing community-based NHS and social care services in Norfolk and Suffolk. We have contracts with the NHS and two county councils. At least 70,000 people are registered as service users with ECCH.

This is an exciting opportunity for Registered Staff Nurses to join East Coast Community Healthcare's (ECCH) bank database and provide staffing in a variety of community nursing roles. The flexibility of bank means it can provide the perfect work life balance and gives you control of the shifts you work.

ECCH operates 24/7 working which includes weekends and bank holidays. Example of shift times are:- core shift 08.30 - 16.30, early 07.00 -- 13.00, late 13.00 -- 20.00. You will be given the flexibility to choose to work the shifts that suit you.

There are shifts available within our Primary Care Homes (PCH). The PCH's cover Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth and Northern Villages, Gorleston and South Waveney which covers Beccles.

Main duties of the job

As a community nurse you will be providing an excellent standard of person centered care to adults in their own homes, residential care or clinic settings.

You will complete holistic assessments for patients referred to the service. Participate in delivery of nursing interventions which could include, but not restricted to:

• Holistic assessments including environmental, moving and handling assessments, pressure area risk, nutritional needs.
• Urinary catheterisation
• Administration of medication via injection
• Wound care and specialist leg ulcer assessment and care
• Palliation and end of life care
• Acute admission avoidance
• Support patient self care using health coaching

About us

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

Details

• Date posted: 26 August 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 5
• Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
• Contract: Bank
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: 849-OL-86
• Job locations: Hamilton House, Battery Green Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR32 1DE, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Contribute to, support, and promote ECCH's, strategic direction, values, and culture in relation to community health services.

Discuss all treatment options with sensitivity, knowledge, and expertise. To act as a patient advocate when appropriate, respecting patient confidentiality with privacy and respect for diverse cultural backgrounds and requirements.

Act as a resource for other health and social care professionals on matters relating to community nursing.

Participate in clinical supervision within Primary Care Home as required.

Participate and maintain a learning environment and maximise opportunities for education and development in the clinical area.

Develop excellent internal and external Network to promote Primary Care Home.

Contribute to the clinical governance agenda through participation in clinical risk assessment and clinical audit.

Contribute to an environment conducive to effective working, respecting, and supporting staff to deliver high quality clinical services.

Contribute to change and innovation within Primary Care Home.

Work as part of the multidisciplinary Primary Care Home to deliver planned and unplanned services.

Work in collaboration with colleagues to contribute to the development of care pathways for patients requiring a range of healthcare needs.

Work in partnership with senior members of the Primary Care Home to review the delegated caseload and ensure the care provided is of high quality.

Work with patients towards self-care and independence utilising health coaching techniques.

Work collaboratively with residential care home colleagues to promote high standards of care.

Contribute to the review of current policies/ protocols/guidelines and the development of clinical pathways and outcomes for people requiring proactive and reactive services.

Plan and organise a range of complex clinical activities in a wide range of community settings to ensure best practice is delivered to patients in your delegated area of responsibility.

Take responsibility for own personal and professional development; maintain competence, knowledge, and skills commensurate with role.

Be wholly accountable for practice taking every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve knowledge and professional competence and, ensure all aspects of professional behaviour as required within professional code are always followed.

Maintain legible, accurate and contemporaneous patient records in accordance with ECCH Policy and Nursing and Midwifery Council standards for record keeping

Take responsibility to ensure compliance with Health and Safety Policy, Fire and Environmental Waste Regulations.

Be responsible for understanding, following, and implementing ECCH policies and procedures.

Ensure own compliance with ECCH risk management systems, proactively identifying risk, reporting, and managing risk within area of responsibility.

Take responsibility for the cost-effective management and safe use of expensive clinical equipment,

Contribute to the effective use of resources.

Contribute to the evaluation of training programmes to support patients and carers gain the necessary knowledge and skills to maintain independence.

All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our ABCD Commitments and Signature Behaviours in the care they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these behaviours, which are detailed in the pages below, an essential part of their job role.

Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word 'CARE'. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.

Underpinning our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture. Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).