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Community Nurse - Gloucester Locality

Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust

Location
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Profession
Nurse (community and district)
Grade
Band 5
Deadline
14 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
27 Jun 2025

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced enthusiastic registered Band 5 nurse with community experience, ready to extend their professional development within the community. Newly Qualified Nurses may also be considered.   The applicant will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills, and ability to prioritise and time manage their own patient visit within the team.

The community setting is an exciting, complex and diverse area to work in, with the privileged position of caring for patients in their own homes being responsible for the implementation and undertaking of patient centred care.

We are a family friendly organisation and are happy to discuss  compromised hours and locality of teams if suitable for service. We have four Integrated Community Teams and work closely with our ICT and GP partners. We currently work on a rolling rota for weekends, usually 1 in 4, supporting good work life balance. Shifts are 8-4pm and 12-8pm.

We offer Preceptorship Programme to 'new to community' staff and there is the opportunity (when experience is gained) to apply for the DNSPQ (Pg Dip) course.

Main duties of the job

Community nursing is a diverse role that requires autonomous working with in a patients home.  The main duties are outlined below:

  • To Practice as a member of the community nursing team, working within the Integrated Community Teams (ICTs)
  • Liaise with GPs, the ICTs and other Statutory and Voluntary agencies.
  • To provide advice, information and education to patients and carers with the aim of enabling patients to enjoy maximum independence, health and well-being.
  • To creatively manage the holistic and clinical needs of patients with acute, sub-acute and long-term conditions,
  • To enable patients living long term physical health challenges to live well within their communities, with a focus on not only their physical health needs but also their wider holistic needs, e.g. mental health, learning disabilities, psychological needs, social needs and spiritual needs.
  • To excel in this role, you will require excellent communication skills, the courage to make clinical decisions and a willingness to develop your potential. You will require current NMC registration as a Registered Nurse.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the National Preceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHS England. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners. In addition to the programme we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrolling and completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module “Preceptorship for Healthcare” (AP7026).

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.