Senior Community Nurse

Job summary

Are you a Registered Nurse looking to take the next step in your career within District Nursing? Do you have at least two years of recent experience within a district nursing service and a passion for delivering high-quality community care? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Warrington District Nursing Service as a Senior Community Staff Nurse.

We are seeking committed and skilled nurses with proven district nursing experience, including areas such as palliative and end-of-life care, wound management, and catheter care. In this role, you will be responsible for managing a cohort of higher-acuity and complex patients, under the guidance of the Team Leader (caseload holder), demonstrating clinical confidence and sound professional judgement.

The successful candidate will bring excellent communication skills, strong clinical reasoning, and the ability to prioritise and manage their own workload effectively. You will be expected to carry out comprehensive holistic assessments, develop and lead on personalised plans of care, and provide support, guidance, and mentorship to junior colleagues within the service. Your contribution will play a vital role in ensuring safe, compassionate, and responsive care for our patients across the Warrington community.

The post holder will provide advanced expertise and strong leadership within the District Nursing Team, working alongside the Team Leader to deliver high-quality, person-centred care. They will demonstrate an in-depth theoretical and practical understanding of a wide range of conditions and will be proficient in core district nursing skills, including tissue viability, palliative and end-of-life care, and diabetes management. Using specialist assessment abilities and diagnostic reasoning, they will interpret complex clinical presentations, make sound judgements, and implement evidence-based interventions tailored to the needs of patients with higher acuity and complex conditions.

They will plan, deliver, and evaluate holistic programmes of care, maintaining accurate records and ensuring practice reflects current evidence, NMC standards, and professional codes.

In their leadership role, the post holder will act as a visible role model, supporting effective communication across the team, promoting a culture of compassion, professionalism, equality, and openness, and deputising for the Team Leader when required. They will help coordinate the teams workload, support decision-making in challenging or urgent situations, and provide guidance, supervision, and mentorship to junior staff, students, and new starters.

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) serves more than one million residents across the Halton and Warrington boroughs and the wider North West region.

Bringing together community and out-of-hospital services (formerly provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare) with inpatient and elective care (formerly Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals) we provide services at two hospital sites and more than 70 community hubs and facilities.

Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM).

They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation.

Our mission
We will be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other

Our vision
We will be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn

Our values

• Kind:
  We are caring, supportive and respectful to everyone
• Open:
  We are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working
• Fair:
  We listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all
• One team:
  We work well together and with our communities

Date posted: 28 July 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number: C9835-WA26-082

Job locations: Grappenhall Clinic, Springfield Avenue, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 2NW
, United Kingdom

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