District Nurse, Healthcare Nursing

Areyou a motivated and enthusiastic District Nurse with a Specialist Practice Qualification looking to continue developing you career providing NHS care?

Weare looking for a highly skilled and enthusiastic Band 6 NMC registered District Nurse to join our South Tandridge team.

Youwill need to be forward thinking, motivated and able to work collaboratively with patients, their carers and health and social care colleagues.

Youneed to have a flexible approach to working some weekends and bank holidays asthe teams provide a 365 day service.

This role is part-time, 22.5hours per week (potentially 30 hours) across a 7 day a week service, with an expectation to travel across the geographical patch.

Working as part of a team, you will be supported by the Team Lead to be responsible for the continued management of a caseload of patients. You will beworking with other health care professionals across the neighbourhood, providing high standards of care to people in their own homes who have a wide range ofnursing needs; aiming to avoid hospital admission, promoting self-care and enabling people to be cared for in their preferred place.

As a District Nurse you will have line management responsibilities andwill support the Team Lead with theteams ongoing development and well-being.

Due to the nature ofthe role, it is essential that you can drive, have a car suitable for businesspurposes, and a valid driving licence.

First Community is a staff-owned social enterprise, rated

Good by the CQC, providing NHS community services across east Surrey and partsof West Sussex. We are looking for people who share our values:
First-ratecare, First-rate people, First-rate value.

Recognised as one of the country's leading communityhealthcare employers in the 2025 NHS Staff Survey, First Community offers asupportive workplace where everyone has a voice and opportunities to develop their full potential.

We offer:

• NHS terms and conditions
• excellent training and development
• flexible working
• NHS pension
• flexible retirement options
• arange of employee benefits.

Sustainability is central to our work as we support the NHSNet Zero ambition.

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The District Nurse is responsible for the management and delivery of a high standard of cost-effective nursing care in the community.

You will be responsible for the continued management of a caseload of patients, working within aneighbourhood providing care closer to home aiming to avoid hospital admission.

You will ensure that patients receive safe, individualised, and effective standards of care by assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating episodes of care.

You will work as part of a highly skilled team, working closely with patients andcarers, linking with acute hospitals and primary care, actively encouraging effective communication at all times with all relevant agencies.

You will promote and develop evidence-based practice in line with current policyand procedures and NMC code of conduct.

You will line manage staff and be responsible for the development and competencies of staff within their team.

The service currently operates 365 days a year between 8am and 6pm and youwill be required to work shift patterns between these times.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead and manage a team
• Ability to organise the workload, delegate and prioritise
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to assess holistically to plan, implement and evaluate care
• Ability to motivate and teach patients, families and carers to support self-care
• Time management and prioritisation
• Ability to work without supervision

• Reliable and flexible
• Ability to work well in stressful situations
• Innovative and assertive
• Motivated, and enthusiastic
• Respectful to colleagues and supportive of senior managers

• Registered Nurse (RN1)
• Specialist Practice Qualification in District Nursing
• Mentor
  - Practice assessor and supervisor

• Good understanding of current nursing workforce issues
• Experience in quality improvement
• Experience of risk management

• Evidence of post registration experience and study at level 6
• Evidence of professional development with a broad range of clinical skills
• Evidence of team…