Senior Community Nurse​/Charge nurse

Senior Community Nurse/Charge nurse

The closing date is 02 August 2026

Due to internal promotion Andover and Winchester Rural North Integrated Community Team (ICT) are recruiting a full time Community Charge Nurse. The ICT model aspires to provide a responsive, safe, effective caring service that is well led and is commissioned to reflect the needs of the local community. Service aims include providing a local point of access, proactive case management and adoption of a co‑produced approach with patients and service users.

The ICT, whilst operating from a local hub, delivers a joined‑up approach across a specific locality, to deliver excellence in care and engages with all practices and wider stakeholders in the locality. The primary role of the Community Charge Nurse is to provide strong holistic leadership to the team and support the Team Matron (Band
7). In conjunction with a range of clinical colleagues, they will lead and facilitate a patient co‑ordinated case management approach for people who are most vulnerable to, and at high risk of repeat admissions to hospital, this includes those with chronic disease, complex care needs and terminal illness who wish to die y will work across the caseload and the single point of access, utilising their clinical triage skills to identify the needs of patients, liaising with the correct services to ensure optimum care is delivered.

Please note that previous applicants need not apply.

Act at all times with compassion, be committed to delivering high quality care, use effective communication, be competent and have courage when needed. Monitor the quality‑of‑care planning, implementation and evaluation.

Inform the Community Matron (Band
7) of any concerns with patients, relatives, visitors or staff that may compromise patient care.

Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients and carers so that information is shared in order to meet patients’ needs.

Act as a role model in the promotion of person‑centred practice, and challenge practice which is not person centred.

Ensure discharge and transfer planning for patients is done in a proactive and interdisciplinary manner.

Assess and maintain the skills and competencies of the team.

Support students in their learning and development.

Ensure new staff receive a proper induction so that they understand acceptable practice and standards.

Develop own professional skills and ensure these are shared with the team and wider division.

Provide management responsibility for the team in partnership with the Community Team Matron. This may include annual leave management, sickness/absence management; performance management, training and development, appraisals, incident and complaints management.

Deputise for the Integrated Community Team Matron as required.

Build and maintain effective relationships with all stakeholders.

Ensure effective management of own and team caseload.

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.

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