Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Community Nurse

The closing date is 20 June 2025

Job summary

Are you a passionate and skilled Registered Nurse ready to make a real difference? Join our vibrant, multi-disciplinary Locality Health Teams and deliver personalised nursing care directly to patients in their homes or community clinics. Bring your expertise to a role where every day offers the chance to improve lives and support people in the way that suits them best.

In this vital role, you will help deliver safe, high-quality, and effective services that prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, support early discharge, and manage patients with complex long-term conditions or acute health episodes. You will also provide personalised end-of-life care for patients and their carers.

You will be expected to work autonomously and with professional accountability, managing a defined community nursing caseload and stepping up in the absence of the Community Sister or Clinical Manager. Your practice will align with Nursing and Midwifery Council standards to ensure excellent patient outcomes.

You will be based at one of the following locations; please indicate which location is your preference; Royal South Hants Hospital, Western Community Hospital, Bitterne Health Centre, Western Community Hospital - Broadcast, New Kings Court and Hawthorne Lodge.

Main duties of the job

This is a community-based Registered Nurse role with vacancies across multiple locations across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, delivering high-quality nursing care in patients' homes and other community settings. This includes first-contact care such as acute assessment, nursing diagnosis, treatment and referral. You will also provide palliative care, focusing on symptom management, assessment of acute symptom onset, and compassionate support for both patients and their families or carers. In addition, the role encompasses continuing care, including intermediate care, rehabilitation, and the management of chronic conditions. A key element of the position also includes contributing to public health by supporting health protection and promotion programmes aimed at improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities across the community.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Date posted

06 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year Based on full time hours

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

348-SSW-8013

Job locations

Royal South Hants Hospital

Graham Road

Southampton

Hampshire

SO14 0YG

Western Community Hospital

Walnut Grove

Southampton

Hampshire

SO16 4XE

Bitterne Health Centre

Commercial Street

Southampton

Hampshire

SO18 6BT

Western Community Hospital -Broadcast

William Macleod Way

Southampton

Hampshire

SO16 4QE

New Kings Court

Tollgate

Chandlers Ford

Hampshire

SO53 3LG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Demonstrate nursing skills e.g. medication management, wound care, IV therapy, palliative care management.
Demonstrate strategies for organising own work load and that of junior staff day-to-day.
Demonstrate and provide evidence of specialist clinical development and good practice examples of how key skills are applied.
Ability to act on own initiative in crisis situations and take responsibility for own caseload of clients.
Is able to work flexibly in a demanding and challenging environment.
Experience of conducting a basic audit.
IT skills.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Demonstrate nursing skills e.g. medication management, wound care, IV therapy, palliative care management.
Demonstrate strategies for organising own work load and that of junior staff day-to-day.
Demonstrate and provide evidence of specialist clinical development and good practice examples of how key skills are applied.
Ability to act on own initiative in crisis situations and take responsibility for own caseload of clients.
Is able to work flexibly in a demanding and challenging environment.
Experience of conducting a basic audit.
IT skills.

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.

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

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal South Hants Hospital

Graham Road

Southampton

Hampshire

SO14 0YG

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal South Hants Hospital

Graham Road

Southampton

Hampshire

SO14 0YG

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)