Specialist Community Nurse

Wilton Community Team are seeking a Band 6 Community Nurse.

Join our dynamic and supportive Wilton Community Team and help shape the future of community healthcare.

This is a full time Fixed Term role. Part time can be considered for the right candidate.

As a Specialist Community Nurse, you will:

- Provide nursing care, treatment, support, and advice to individuals in their own homes or outpatient settings.

- Promote patient independence and wellbeing, working within national and local frameworks, professional guidelines, and organisational policies.

- Deliver safe, person-centred care to a diverse caseload of patients with both short-term and long-term conditions.

- Take clinical leadership responsibility for peers, junior trained staff, and support workers within your discipline.

- Offer expert advice and guidance to other health and social care professionals.

- Act as a key member of the team, contributing to service development and maintaining high standards of care.

What We’re Looking For

- A registered nurse (Adult) with current NMC registration.

- Significant post-registration experience in a community or primary care setting.

Main Duties of the Job

- Ensure own clinical credibility through professional practice, regular updating and maintaining clinical skills.

- Undertake specialist and complex assessments and care planning.

- Prescribe medication and other items safely and appropriately within the context of national and local policies, guidelines and formularies.

- Give care and support to terminally ill patients and their carers/relatives, including discussing prognosis and preparing for death. Ensuring other relevant agencies are involved.

- Have sound knowledge of infection control, to reduce risk of health care acquired infections.

- Maximise the use and skills of junior staff by supporting appropriate delegation of tasks by self and others.

- Deliver urgent care/planned care/care to people with LTC / post-acute needs / older people.

- Keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.

- Deliver clinical care for a variety of patients, some with extremely complex needs.

- Complete assessments for patients with continuing healthcare needs and provide ongoing clinical case management.

About Us

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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