Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 150-KB1711-CC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Durrington Health Centre
- Town
- Worthing
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Staff Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
We are looking for Registered Nurses to join a community nursing team in Worthing.
The Community Staff Nurse is responsible for working without direct supervision in a number of community settings to follow the nursing process and deliver appropriate nursing care to patients on the caseload. The postholder will also be an information resource for patients and colleagues and work collaboratively with our health and social care partners.
The Community Staff Nurse works in partnership with the primary health care team, social services, private and voluntary sector, addressing health promotion priorities both locally and nationally.
Please note we will be offering two part time roles - 0.6 WTE each.
Main duties of the job
To deliver high quality care in the community, working with patients towards rehabilitation, self-management and independence throughout the continuum of care.
To participate in a team of colleagues supporting evidence based care, facilitating staff learning and development.
To work flexibly across teams and/or transfer between teams to meet service needs.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Our main duties of the role:
a) Holistic assessment and care planning.
b) Individualised care and the promotion of self-care.
c) Safe and effective review and referral to the appropriate member of the multidisciplinary team.
d) Effective delegation and prioritisation of workload.
e) Professional development as required to maintain area of practice, and as negotiated in supervision.
f) An awareness of health, safety and security risks
g) Engagement in service provision and change.
h) Acts as a practice supervisor for staff and students.
For further information please read the job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN qualification / degree or diploma
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of a range of clinical competencies
Other
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning and development
- Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
- Demonstrate a high level of understanding of self, able to identify personal limitations and show openness to address them
- Car driver with access to a vehicle for work purposes ( unless under Equality Act)
- Demonstrate ability to reflect and learn from situations
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good numeracy and literacy skills
- Good communication and negotiation skills
- Demonstrates competency in a range of clinical skills e.g. wound management
- Catheterisation skills, medicines management and administration, palliative and end of life care including management of syringe drivers
- Is able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
- Knowledge of current local policies informing community health and social care services,
- A clear understanding of the role of the Community Staff Nurse,
- Promote independence and choice in undertaking patient care
- IT literate or willing to achieve within an agreed period
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance, clinical audit and clinical supervision, Professional codes of Conduct
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge/ understanding of boundaries of role
- Practice supervisor
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Samantha Clarke
- Job title
- Operational Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07741326839
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