Neighbourhood Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse

Job overview

We are looking for a forward-thinking and motivated nurse to join the Neighbourhood Nursing teams across Lambeth and Southwark areas.

You must demonstrate excellent communication and team working skills. Through clinical case management you will care for patients with long-term conditions, those at risk, end of life care needs, and those with supported self-care programmes.

There will be training and opportunities in addition to clinical supervisions and appraisals.  The post holder must be able to undertake a prescribing course and advanced assessment courses once in post.

Working on a 7-day shift service (hours between 8.00 – 20.00), this post also includes rotational weekend work (maximum two per month).

We will being using transparent interviews, whereby we will provide the 60% of the non-clinical questions to the candidates 48 hours in advance – for further details on this please contact [email protected] – Matron for Recruitment & Retention.

Closing Date:  Midnight 29/03/26

Proposed Interview Date:  15/04/26

Main duties of the job

The Neighbourhood Nurse participates in the clinical case management of patients who have a wide variety of complex, high-risk and supported/self-care conditions.

As a team leader, you will ensure the provision of a high standard of nursing care and health promotion.

Duties include:

• Holistic assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care. For example, Chronic Disease Management, Tissue viability, Palliative Care, Nurse Prescribing, Extended and Supplementary Prescribing.
• First contact assessment, care and referral.
• Continuing care, rehabilitation and delivering the National Service Frameworks.
• Providing public health, health promotional programmes to improve health and reduce inequalities.
• Maintaining contemporaneous written and computerised records.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for complete details and key responsibilities for this role.