# Community Staff Nurse - North Cots Locality

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Cotswold ICT -Bourton on the water/ North Cotswolds Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Nurse (community and district)
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (shifts 8-4 or 12-8. 1 weekend in 4)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-01T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18T23:01:07.091Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Gloucestershire/Bourton_on_water/Gloucestershire_Health_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Nursing/Community_Nursing-v8222346
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8222346?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.ghc.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

“What do you value in your nursing role?”

We are looking for caring, compassionate and hardworking nurses, who want to make a difference.

To excel in this role, you will require excellent communication skills, the courage to make clinical decisions and a willingness to develop your potential. We are a dedicated and caring nursing team who strive to make a difference to the local people in the community. We are privileged to provide nursing care in patients home and provide information and education to patients and carers with the aim of enabling patients to enjoy maximum independence, health and well-being.

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are full-time, 37.5 hours per week.

### Main duties of the job

As a community nursing team our service covers 8am to 8pm. As a member of the team you would be expected to work either part time or full time over a shift system which includes early and late shifts across 7 days including weekends and bank holidays. As a trust we have an excellent flexible working policy and work in partnership with our staff to meet the needs of the service.

In the community Trust we mobile work which you will be equipped for (using a laptop and smart phone device); not only is this safer because you will have access all patient information at your fingertips, it also means you can complete records and any other patient paperwork in real time, so you can then focus all your attention on your next patient.

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

### 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).

Newly qualified Social Workers are offered the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment programme (ASYE) which is similar to a preceptorship programme.

The Trust is required to work in line with the Government’s UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Evidence of working without direct supervision
- Experience of working with students or learners in practice

**Desirable**

- Previous experience of Community Nursing
- Evidence of post registration training
- Teaching and assessing qualification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Nursing degree or diploma
- Willingness to undertake further training
- NMC registered
- Driving licence and use of vehicle

**Desirable**

- Evidence of continued learning

## Documents

- [staff benefits - ghc (pdf, 618.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2522)
- [community staff nurse (pdf, 480.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10531093)
- [additional information for applicants (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2656)

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