# Senior Community Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-community-nurse/cd0fa129-3914-43dc-bdac-a26e23dec137 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-community-nurse/cd0fa129-3914-43dc-bdac-a26e23dec137.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Belsize Priory Health Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 per annum inc HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent: 7 day week working 08.30-17.00 - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (08.30-17.00) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-27T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-13T14:30:48.760Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Camden/Central_North_West_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nursing/Nursing-v8225598 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8225598?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you looking for a new role in a supportive and dynamic team or perhaps looking for your next challenge! CICH North Neighbourhood Team are looking for a dynamic and skilled Community B6 Nurse, for a 6 months fixed term contract. As a senior nurse within the service you will be responsible for providing skilled leadership to colleagues during the shift. This will include allocating workload and managing the caseload of the team. Prioritising patients based on need. You will manage the performance and development of staff, be responsible for providing supervision for staff, ensuring that a high standard of skilled nursing care is provided to patients. You will use specialist knowledge in assessing, planning and implementing care and demonstrate high level problem solving and decision-making skills. Community experience is essential. Applications welcome from car drivers and "walkers". As this is a community nursing role, the expectation is for all clinicians to travel independently between sites with the equipment/ consumables needed for their role. ### Main duties of the job As the senior nurse you will help coordinate the shift ensuring that all staff carry out skilled evidence based nursing intervention. You will be a point of contact for staff on duty and use your skills to manage complex, challenging and demanding clinical situations. You will assess, prioritise and manage the active caseload, using coordination and leadership skills to ensure this is done effectively. You will use your skills to teach staff, demonstrating and supervising nursing care to patients. Provide managerial supervision to the staff you are responsible for including yearly appraisal. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please review attached Job description for more information about the role. Clinical Duties - Carries out skilled evidence based nursing intervention. - Manages complex, challenging and demanding clinical situations. - Teaches, demonstrates and supervises nursing care to patients. - Ensure clinical practice of the team is up to date and based on current evidence base. - Apply current Infection Control Policy issues and universal precautions. - Assesses, prioritises and manages caseload Professional - Maintains current NMC registration and follows Professional Code of Conduct. - Actively participates in training and development of team members. - Maintains own professional practice. - Provides and takes part in Clinical Supervision. - Deals professionally with sensitive and confidential information. - Undertakes appraisal/annual reviews for team members. Managerial - Priorities and allocates clinical work to team members according to competency. - Maintains accurate records and returns as required by service managers or the Trust. - Maintains staff rotas to cover caseloads. - Ensures team members have current mandatory training records. - Identifies clinical risk to Clinical Leads and reports on incidents. - Undertakes systematic caseload reviews. ### 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 ### Knowledge **Essential** - Previous experience as a Band 5 nurse in the community setting - Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies - Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary - Sound clinical knowledge - Manage others and contribute to the management of the team **Desirable** - Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role - Supervision, Line management and appraisal training - HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence ### Experience **Essential** - Previous experience as a Band 5 nurse in the community setting ### Qualifications **Essential** - NMC Registered Adult Nurse - Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines - Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development **Desirable** - Practice assessor and supervisor training. - SPQ District Nursing or willingness to apply/ complete course in the future ## Documents - [cnwl values (pdf, 182.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1162) - [cnwl staff charter (pdf, 684.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2868) - [cnwl staff networks (pdf, 320.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1160) - [person specification (pdf, 736.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10534746) - [west neighbourhood band 6 jd (pdf, 320.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10534839) - [cnwl reward and wellbeing handbook 2020 (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1773) - [cnwl culture scarf behaviour framework (pdf, 710.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2869) - [accommodation information for new starters (pdf, 120.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2438) ## 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.