Community Staff Nurse

Main area Community Nursing Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent:
Covers 7 days a week 8.00 to 18.00 Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Usual working shifts 0800hr-1800hr).

Job
-TH174-AD. Site:
Isebrook Hospital or Green Lane Clinic, Town:
Wellingborough or Thrapston. Salary £32,073 - £39,043 pa pro rata. Salary period Yearly. Closing 03/07/2026 08:00.

Community Nurses make a difference everyday to the lives of the people they visit  are proud of our Community Nurses who provide increasingly complex care for patients and support for family members to encourage patients to receive the care they need in their own home.

We are looking for experienced Community Registered Adult Nurses with a passion for high quality nursing care. The post holder will provide acute nursing assessment & interventions in patients’ own homes and will ensure that patients are referred onwards as appropriate to community services once their care episode is complete.

• Excellent learning and development to support you and develop your Nursing Career.
• Flexible working opportunities.
• Competitive Mileage Rates.

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is committed to training and developing its staff not only with clinical skills but also in leadership and managerial skills.

You’ll also have access to our generous pension scheme and health service discounts, as well as generous annual leave plus bank holidays.

As a Community nurse, you'll

• Assess the healthcare needs of patients and families.
• Monitor the quality of care they’re receiving.
• Be professionally accountable for the delivery of care.
• Utilise technology to enable you to update records as you go.

Your patients could be any age, but they'll often be elderly, while others may have been recently discharged from hospital, be terminally ill or have physical disabilities.

The service aims to provide an excellent standard of care that supports patients to remain in their home environment. In Northamptonshire you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in order to support the service and focus on delivering quality outcomes and improving the patient experience. You'll play a vital role in keeping hospital admissions and re-admissions to a minimum and ensuring that patients can return to their own homes as soon as possible.

You will need to be adaptable and resourceful. You'll need to be well organised, confident and able to cope in diverse situations to deliver patient care. Leadership and management skills are also important, as with all nursing roles, communication skills, problem solving and good judgement are crucial.

You will be part of the caring team and be able to work flexibly with minimum supervision, with the ability to prioritise work based on patient need.

Join us and become part of Team NHFT.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.

We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT is an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

• NMC registered adult nurse with Post Registration Community Nurse experience.
• Working knowledge of System One Patient Electronic Record.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to work autonomously and independently.

• Experience in Community.
• Experience with Venepuncture.
• Palliative Care.
• UK car driver and owner.

• All new starters subject to a probationary period.
• This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020.
• DBS check required for regulated activity; DBS re-check every three years; DBS Automatic Update Service; annual fee reimbursed subject to Trust policy.
• If DBS is applicable, a charge will be deducted from first salary.

• NHFT supports many of its colleagues to work flexibly and considers requests for flexible working from day one, including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part-time hours.
• Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. Reasonable adjustments can be made at any stage of the recruitment process.