Community Staff Nurse
The closing date is 05 May 2026.
We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our supportive and friendly Community Nursing team based in Cannock as a Band 5 NMC Registered Nurse.
We would love to hear from you if you are passionate about being part of a team delivering the highest standards of palliative and end of life care to patients in their own homes and with a strong interest in complex, specialist wound and pelvic health care.
Within the community we are seeing more complex and acute patients than ever before, with increasingly specialist treatment and care being provided by highly skilled staff. Working within our Community Nursing Team you will support, assess and treat patients with a variety of health needs, delivering high quality evidence‑based practice. You will holistically support patients to manage their long‑term conditions and care needs within the community and support patients with acute care needs to receive treatment (such as IV antibiotics) without an avoidable hospital admission.
We offer bespoke training, support and personalised ongoing professional development into a variety of career pathways. You will be required to travel independently across a large geographical area.
Main duties of the job
As band 5 Community Nurse, you will have a commitment to providing holistic care to patients in their own homes, be able to work on your own initiative and work well within a team.
* Assess new service user referrals and care/support needs.
* Provide care directly to patients on the caseload with a range of nursing needs (including palliative care, complex wound care, pelvic health, medication administration).
* Promote independence and support patient centred care planning.
* Work autonomously, in line with your scope of practice, competence and policies.
* Handover patient information to the wider team, document patient information effectively.
* Escalate patients' needs as appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree in nursing or equivalent
* Mentorship qualification or equivalent
Professional Registration
* Current NMC Registration
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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