# Senior Community Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-community-nurse/202d0b49-0915-44d0-8c72-2df9f2f07154 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-community-nurse/202d0b49-0915-44d0-8c72-2df9f2f07154.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust - **Town:** Carshalton - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £45,953 - £54,254 per annum incl HCAS ( Outer London) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9.5 HOUR SHIFTS 4 DAYS PER WEEK TO INCLUDE SOME WEEKENDS) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-21T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-14T07:24:26.130Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Sutton/Epsom_St_Helier_University_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Community_Nursing/Community_Nursing-v8152516 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8152516?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The post holder will work as part of a multi-professional team managing a caseload of patients in the community, ensuring the needs of the patients are identified and met.  Promoting the independence of patients, assisting them to maintain/or improve their own physical, psychological and social wellbeing. In addition to this to arrange timely responses overnight for urgent unplanned visits. To ensure the provision of clinical leadership and direct line management of the team members with the support of the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse is achieved. To ensure that the service we deliver is adaptable and resilient, commercially focused and creates innovative solutions to enhance the patient experience. ### Main duties of the job Community Team Sister/Charge Nurse Band 6- Access to a vehicle We are looking for enthusiastic Senior community nurses to join us in our community Nursing Teams  within the London borough of Sutton. You will need to be passionate about delivering exceptional holistic health care, supporting patients to remain independent and avoiding unnecessary hospital admission. If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you! Previous experience of community nursing is essential. You will work directly with patients, their families and our multidisciplinary services to plan and facilitate the delivery of holistic evidence based care. Sutton Health and Care is a pioneering partnership made up of the GP federation in Sutton, the London Borough of Sutton, South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust and Epsom and St Helier hospitals. Working together, we provide community services in Sutton, caring for adults in their own homes across the borough. The partnership of Sutton Health and Care is truly exciting, and together, we can achieve more for the people we care for. We are a 7 day extended hours service; working Monday to Sunday, 7am to 7pm  including weekends and bank holidays. Access to own vehicle  insured for use at work is essential. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the Senior Community Nurse role at Epsom and St Helier ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Multidisciplinary team work - Experience in managing the needs of complex patients - Experience of conflict management - Care Planning - Experience in working in a community setting **Desirable** - Experience in working in a community setting - Experience of supporting students ### Other requirements **Essential** - Car owner/driver insured for business use ### Education/ Qualifications **Essential** - Qualified RGN with current registration with NMC - Practice assessor/ Practice Supervisor **Desirable** - Specialist practitioner District Nurse qualification ### Skills/Abilities/ Knowledge **Essential** - Ability to work unsupervised or with minimal supervision - Ability to work under pressure - Insight into current issues relating to delivery of community/primary care ## Documents - [jd/ps (pdf, 760.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10452374) - [dbs policy (pdf, 101.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=677) - [we're here to care (doc, 39.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=678) - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2413) - [jd supplementary information (pdf, 151.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1953) ## 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.