Job summary
A you passionate about providing high-quality, patient-centred care in the community?
We are seeking innovative and motivated Senior Registered Nursesto join ourCamden Integrated Neighbourhood Teams. You'll play a vital role in delivering nursing interventions to housebound patients, supported by a skilled and collaborative multidisciplinary team.
As a Band 6 Community Nurse, you will be joining a forward-thinking and inclusive service with a clear vision to improve access, reduce health inequalities, and provide holistic, integrated care to the local community. If you have previous experience working in a community setting, this is a fantastic opportunity to progress your career with access to robust support, supervision, and development.
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Main duties of the job
As a Band 6 Community Nurse within the Camden Integrated Neighbourhood Team, you will:
- Provide high-quality, evidence-based care to patients in their own homes or community settings.
- Manage a designated caseload, conducting holistic assessments and developing individualised care plans.
- Monitor and review patient care, adjusting interventions based on clinical need and best practice.
- Work autonomously while maintaining strong communication with your team and other professionals.
- Collaborate with amultidisciplinary team, including Complex Care Nurses, District Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Pharmacy Technicians, and Social Care partners.
- Provide clinical supervision and support to junior staff and students to promote learning and safe practice.
- Liaise with specialist teams such as Palliative Care, Tissue Viability, Bladder & Bowel, Rapid Response, Respiratory, Heart Failure, Stroke and Neurology, and Diabetes Teams.
- Maintain accurate and timely records using SystmOne.
- Participate in clinical supervision, team meetings, and quality improvement initiatives.
Be flexible in working across all five Camden Neighbourhood Teams to support safe staffing and skill mix.
About us
At Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL), we are committed to delivering outstanding, patient-centred, safe, and effective care across a range of settings--from hospitals and community clinics to patients' own homes. Our services are designed around the people who use them, and we are proud to place patients and service users at the heart of everything we do.
AtCamden Integrated Community Healthcare Services, we provide fully integrated nursing and therapy care for housebound residents. OurDistrict NursingandCommunity Rehabilitation teamswork collaboratively to ensure seamless, coordinated care within a neighbourhood model. This integrated approach supports continuity of care and encourages innovation through multi-disciplinary teamwork.
CNWL is proud of itsinclusive and diverse workforceand offers a supportive environment that promotes learning, collaboration, and wellbeing.
CNWL is nationally and internationally recognised for delivering high-quality, innovative healthcare. Our clinical models are regularly cited as examples of best practice and have been adapted by health systems around the world. If you are passionate about making a real difference in people's lives and are looking for a place to thrive, thenCNWL is the right place for you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Band 6 nurses are vital members of our community teams and play an integral role in how people experience care. Your role involves providing compassionate, safe, and responsive careto patients while maintaining professionalism and contributing to service improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
Job description
Job responsibilities
Band 6 nurses are vital members of our community teams and play an integral role in how people experience care. Your role involves providing compassionate, safe, and responsive careto patients while maintaining professionalism and contributing to service improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Adult Branch with current NMC registration
- Numeracy Skills required for safe administration of medicines
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Practice assessor and supervisor training
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience as a B5 nurse in a community setting
Other
Essential
- Awareness of NHS measures in respect to primary care and reducing hospital admissions (including the NHS Long Term Plan)
Desirable
- Full and valid UK driving licence
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
- Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
- IT skills: Able to maintain electronic patient records Use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing
- Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
- Ability to act as Clinical Supervisor for Healthcare Assistants and/or Band 5 Registered Nurses
- Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their clinical activities
- Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
- Medicines management and administration
- Manual Handling patients
- Urinary Catheterisation (Male & Female)
- Infection control and Aseptic Non Touch Technique
- Coordinate work allocation and shifts (if appropriate)
Desirable
- Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
- Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
- HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence
Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Essential
- Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
- Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
- Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
- Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Adult Branch with current NMC registration
- Numeracy Skills required for safe administration of medicines
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Practice assessor and supervisor training
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience as a B5 nurse in a community setting
Other
Essential
- Awareness of NHS measures in respect to primary care and reducing hospital admissions (including the NHS Long Term Plan)
Desirable
- Full and valid UK driving licence
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
- Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
- IT skills: Able to maintain electronic patient records Use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing
- Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
- Ability to act as Clinical Supervisor for Healthcare Assistants and/or Band 5 Registered Nurses
- Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their clinical activities
- Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
- Medicines management and administration
- Manual Handling patients
- Urinary Catheterisation (Male & Female)
- Infection control and Aseptic Non Touch Technique
- Coordinate work allocation and shifts (if appropriate)
Desirable
- Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
- Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
- HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence
Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Essential
- Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
- Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
- Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
- Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
