# Community Staff Nurse - Out of Hours > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-staff-nurse-out-of-hours/8061c370-1691-4361-8c80-07baba435844 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-staff-nurse-out-of-hours/8061c370-1691-4361-8c80-07baba435844.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Salford - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent: Out of Hours - **Employment type:** Part time - 26 hours per week (THE HOURS WORKED ARE OVER 7 DAYS A WEEK BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 17:00HRS - 08:00HRS) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-12T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-08T12:03:22.145Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Rochdale/Northern_Care_Alliance_NHS_Foundation_Trust/registered_nurse/registered_nurse-v8066039 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8066039?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview You will be responsible for delivering immediate and continuing nursing care to patients within their own homes. You will prioritise, assess, plan, evaluate and deliver all relevant aspects of nursing care to an agreed and expected high standard. You will work as a key member of the team and contribute to the processes that promote patient safety and quality of care in line with clinical governance frameworks. Gain competence in clinical skills to enable delivery of quality patient care within the service. Take an active role in contributing to developing nursing practice. Maintain effective communication internally and externally to the organisation. You will be expected to participate fully in their personal development and review process in order to achieve the knowledge and skills identified for this post. ### Main duties of the job To take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based care for patients. To care for palliative care patients and there families in their own homes. To provide ongoing nursing care and support to patients and carers, promoting the role of the nurse and clinical excellence. To identify patients whose conditions become unstable and liaise with doctors and acute services appropriately. To be responsible for  documentation in line with current practice and policies. To ensure that patients can make an informed choice about their current and future care needs. Ensure that care is patient centred, and confidentiality is maintained in line with Trust policy. To prioritise own workload and work autonomously when necessary. To provide support, guidance, and supervision to junior staff. To assess the level of ongoing nursing needs for people who may need long term care. To liaise with the patients GP to provide sufficient information for ongoing primary care to be provided safely and efficiently. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as a Registered Nurse in the UK. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role. The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website:  https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/ We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible. ## Job Details You will be responsible for delivering immediate and continuing nursing care to patients within their own homes. You will prioritise, assess, plan, evaluate and deliver all relevant aspects of nursing care to an agreed and expected high standard. You will work as a key member of the team and contribute to the processes that promote patient safety and quality of care in line with clinical governance frameworks. Gain competence in clinical skills to enable delivery of quality patient care within the service. Take an active role in contributing to developing nursing practice. Maintain effective communication internally and externally to the organisation. You will be expected to participate fully in their personal development and review process in order to achieve the knowledge and skills identified for this post. ## Job Description To take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based care for patients. To care for palliative care patients and there families in their own homes. To provide ongoing nursing care and support to patients and carers, promoting the role of the nurse and clinical excellence. To identify patients whose conditions become unstable and liaise with doctors and acute services appropriately. To be responsible for documentation in line with current practice and policies. To ensure that patients can make an informed choice about their current and future care needs. Ensure that care is patient centred, and confidentiality is maintained in line with Trust policy. To prioritise own workload and work autonomously when necessary. To provide support, guidance, and supervision to junior staff. To assess the level of ongoing nursing needs for people who may need long term care. To liaise with the patients GP to provide sufficient information for ongoing primary care to be provided safely and efficiently. ## Responsibilities To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as a Registered Nurse in the UK. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role. The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/ We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible. ## Person Specification ### Skills & Abilities **Essential** - Team Worker - Good time keeping - Self-awareness - Flexible - Enthusiastic and motivated - Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs **Desirable** - Articulate, confident & assertive - Full UK driving license with willingness to use own car for work purposes ### Knowledge, Training & Experience **Essential** - Ability to plan and organise own work - Awareness of community working and care pathways - Computer literacy skills e.g. Microsoft Word and literature searching skills - Communication and listening skills - Ability to undertake clinical observations - Ability to assessment patients needs and plan their care - Knowledge of long term conditions and end of life care - Ability to maintain own professional development using competency skills framework and on-going portfolio **Desirable** - Management of patients with long term conditions e.g Diabetes - Management of patients towards end of life - Management of patients with catheters - Relevant Community experience - Sound knowledge of health policy relating to Community Care ### Qualifications & Professional Registration **Essential** - Degree / Diploma in Nursing studies or equivalent - Up to date professional portfolio demonstrating evidence of reflective practice - Registered Nurse with current NMC registration (Part 1 Adult / General Level 1 or 2) **Desirable** - Leg ulcer trained or willingness to undertake. - Willingness to complete the palliative care passport - V150 prescribing ## Documents - [functional requirements (pdf, 168.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10356867) - [candidate information pack (pdf, 840.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3016) - [sponsorship & evisa information (pdf, 141.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2708) - [community staff nurse - out of hours (pdf, 480.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10356866) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.