Senior Community Nurse

Job summary

HIOW Healthcare are looking for an inspirational registered nurse to work as a Senior Community Nurse. Community Nurses work autonomously and as part of a team and care is delivered in the patients own home environment and designated treatment rooms. Our nurses are responsible for a manageable caseload, working across the city ensuring our patients are receiving the best quality care from the comfort of their own homes and thereby avoiding hospital admission.

Community Nursing is much wider than the nursing team. We work alongside our colleagues within Social Care, our Internal Safeguarding Team, specialist services, both within HIOWH and external providers, to ensure our patients are provided with the care they require. Working collaboratively enhances staff development but also ensures that our patients are at the heart of everything we do.

This is a full time role 37.5 hrs pw based at Bitterne Health Centre in Southampton. Our working patterns are across a 7 day week. Our core shifts are 0830 to 1630 and 1400 to 2000 hrs. There is also a requirement that you will work 1 in 4 weekends as well as bank holidays.

Only open to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service, Isle of Wight NHS FT or Hampshire Hospitals FT.

Main duties of the job

To work in partnership with Primary Care to provide high quality clinical care for patients, often with complex care needs, living in the community, who require a programme of care & rehabilitation following an inpatient episode or who are living with long term conditions and are at risk of deteriorating health that may result in declining quality of life.

To support the Clinical Manager and Integrated Service Matron in providing clinical knowledge and leadership to the community nursing staff in the wider locality health team, supervising and developing junior staff and contributing to the achievement of divisional business delivery objectives.

To work collaboratively with partners in health and social care, to establish a whole systems approach to managing patients with complex care needs, maintaining a community pull on patients being admitted to secondary care, to inform decisions about acute interventions and to lead in the discharge planning.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details

• Date posted: 19 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year Based on full time hours
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 348-SSW-12938
• Job locations: Bitterne Health Centre, Commercial Street, Southampton, Hampshire, SO18 6BT, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).