# Senior Community Nurse Assessor > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-community-nurse-assessor/deefb1a2-ddaf-494f-9354-377a2ede2a51 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-community-nurse-assessor/deefb1a2-ddaf-494f-9354-377a2ede2a51.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Edward Jenner Court - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 18.75 hours per week (1 weekend in 4) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-08T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-21T14:30:32.140Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Gloucestershire/Stroud/Gloucestershire_Health_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Senior_Community_Nurse/Senior_Community_Nurse-v8375273 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8375273?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.ghc.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 18.75 hours per week. Are you a passionate and motivated Registered Nurse looking to make a real difference to patient outcomes? This is an exciting opportunity to join our new Home First service that launched on 1 September, supporting patients to return home safely from hospital and avoid unnecessary admissions. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will deliver timely, holistic assessments and develop personalised care plans for patients with complex health needs. You will play a key role in supporting hospital discharge, promoting independence, and ensuring patients receive the right care, at the right time, in the right place. This is a rewarding role for a nurse who enjoys autonomous practice, collaborative working, and delivering high-quality, person-centred care within patients' own homes and communities. ### Why Join Us? - Be part of an innovative new Home First service launched in September. - Help shape a developing service focused on improving patient outcomes and experiences. - Work within a supportive multidisciplinary team committed to delivering outstanding community care. - Make a tangible impact on reducing hospital stays and helping people live independently at home. ### Main duties of the job - Complete holistic nursing assessments and develop personalised care plans for patients discharged through Home First and other discharge-to-assess pathways. - Support safe and timely hospital discharges and help prevent avoidable hospital admissions. - Deliver evidence-based nursing care, treatment, and intervention for patients with complex, acute, sub-acute, and long-term conditions. - Identify ongoing nursing needs and coordinate seamless handover to Community Nursing Teams where required. - Work collaboratively with therapists, reablement staff, GPs, social care teams, and other system partners across One Gloucestershire. - Promote independence through health coaching, education, goal-setting, and personalised care approaches. - Support medicines management and clinical decision-making to optimise patient outcomes. - Provide advice and support to patients, carers, and families to maximise health, wellbeing, and self-management. - Contribute to service improvement, quality assurance, audit activity, and patient safety initiatives. - Support the development of colleagues and students through supervision, coaching, and leadership within the team. - Manage and prioritise a dynamic caseload, demonstrating excellent clinical judgement and organisational skills. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey. The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application. This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Government’s UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas To support compliance with UK immigration requirements, all applicants who require a visa to work in the UK must disclose their visa history in full. This includes current and previous sponsors, dates of sponsorship, visa category, and any changes of employment. If you are on a Graduate or Dependant Visa, please disclose the expiry date on your application. Incomplete information may mean we are unable to consider your application ### 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 ### QUALIFICATIONS **Essential** - Registered Nurse (Adult / RGN) - Current NMC registration - Individual modules at degree or masters level, eg. PACR - Holds recognised teaching/ mentoring qualification ### LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE **Essential** - Experience of working without direct supervision - Consolidated experience of community nursing practice - Experience of managing long term conditions and case management of complex patients - Experience of delivering extended role clinical interventions - Evidence of post-registration education & training. ### PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE **Essential** - Ability to work on own initiative, assess patients competently and link with colleagues in the wider MDT to tailor plans of care - Ability to effectively manage the workload, prioritise and delegate to manage capacity and demand - Effective written and oral communication skills - Knowledge of safeguarding procedures **Desirable** - An understanding of national policy in relation to community nursing - Up to date clinical knowledge including risk assessment - Knowledge of health coaching techniques to engage patient participation and outcome ## Documents - [staff benefits - ghc (pdf, 618.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2522) - [additional information for applicants (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2656) - [senior community nurse assessor jd/ps (pdf, 480.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10703447) ## 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.