Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 150-MT1831-CC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Beach Park House
- Town
- Worthing
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Staff Nurse - Adult Community Nursing
Band 5
Job overview
The Coastal and Southdowns Community Primary Care Network Team is looking for a registered nurse. If you are newly registered or looking for a new challenge, Community Nursing offers a great opportunity to specialise in a highly diverse and rewarding field. Community nursing offers the applicants many specialties in one role.
Any successful applicants will have an individual induction plan to ease into this community environment.
We would expect any prospective applicants to have researched the community role and Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, so you can demonstrate why you should be the successful candidate.
A Full UK driving licence is required for this role and access to a car-the patient client group lives rurally, and the Nurse will need to be able to travel to visit those patients with the equipment required for that visit.
We welcome applicants from Our Armed Forces Community (Step into Health) - Through Step into Health, we actively support
applications from the Armed Forces community, including serving personnel, veterans, and military
families, recognising the valuable skills and experience they bring.
Main duties of the job
Our Team consists of Administrators to support the Nursing Team, a number of Health Care Assistants, A Nursing Associate, Community Staff Nurses ranging from part time and full time. We also have Qualified District Nurses and Community Sisters who obtained modules within community nursing, Clinical Nurse Leads and a Team Lead. As part of our Frailty Service we also work together with all our Local Health, Social and Voluntary Sector to enable holistic support for our patients.
We provide a highly supportive approach with all staff to gain the competencies required for the role. This includes individual development for those who wish to pursue a pathway to gain the District Nursing qualification and towards a Clinical Nurse Lead role. Also for those who have a special interest in any of the community disciplines, we will ensure they have the access to expand on those skills. We have amazing feedback from the student nurses we support and are committed to succession planning for the future
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
You will see on the Person Specification some of the competencies and expectations you will either have or need to develop if you were successful. The main aspects of the role are Diabetic Management, Wound Management including Leg Ulcers diagnosis and treatment, Palliative care working very closely with the Hospice and GP’s, Bladder and Bowel care including urethral and supra pubic catheters and other continence needs.
As well as the traditional type of patients as stated above, we work in partnership with the local health and social providers covering a specific group of people under Frailty. This group includes Severely Frail (score based), Dementia diagnosis, End of Life, Complex Conditions and Care Home Patients.
Our goal is 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN qualification / degree or diploma
- ENB 998 or equivalent or work towards
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of a range of clinical competencies
Experience
Essential criteria
- Good numeracy and literacy skills
- Good communication and negotiation skills
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Experience in a community setting
- Motivational interviewing skills
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate ability to reflect and learn from situations
- 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 shows openness to address them
- Car Driver with access to a vehicle for work purposes (unless under the Equality Act for reasonable adjustments)
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
- Yvonne Caldwell
- Job title
- Operational Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07768237217
- Additional information
Please contact the team prior to application or interview if shortlisted to aid your understanding of the role and expectations
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