Overview
Senior Community Nurse role at NHS. Band 6, Tower Hamlets, London. Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours).
Are you passionate about making a difference for older people and supporting safe, timely discharges from hospital? This role is part of an integrated In‑Reach and Older People Service supporting hospital flow, avoiding unnecessary admissions, and ensuring patients return safely to their home or community with the right care in place. This role is ideal for a dynamic, forward-thinking nurse with experience in acute, community, or older people’s services. You will work across boundaries, enjoy problem solving, and thrive in a fast-paced environment with real impact on patient outcomes.
Main duties
* Work proactively on hospital wards to identify medically fit patients at risk of delayed discharge and coordinate timely, safe transitions of care.
* Use advanced assessment and frailty and falls screening skills to support older people with complex needs, ensuring personalised care planning.
* Collaborate with community health services, social care, primary care, and care homes to streamline pathways and avoid readmissions.
* Provide clinical leadership, education, and support to junior colleagues, care staff, and multidisciplinary teams.
* Contribute to service development and the wider frailty and admission avoidance pathway, ensuring best practice and innovation.
* This role covers the borough.
* Introduce and enable self-management and self-care.
* With the team, ensure safe handover to the care plan and measure outcomes.
About Us
Our mission is to improve quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive. We seek people who live and breathe these qualities in supporting service users and carers, and in relationships with colleagues in the Trust and partner organisations.
Job Details
Band: Band 6
Salary: £46,419 to £55,046 per annum, inclusive of HCA
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Location: Tower Hamlets Community Health Team, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1FR
Job Description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS. If you have questions, contact the recruiting manager.
Qualifications and Experience
Education/qualification/training
* Essential
* RGN
* Physical assessment and first contact course (or willingness to undertake)
* Awareness of current developments in primary and community care, particularly with older people
* Specialist practitioner (District Nursing) Degree or equivalent certificate/diploma
* Desirable
* Non-Medical Prescriber V300 (appears twice in original; listed once here)
* Nurse Formulary prescriber V100
Experience
* Essential
* Ability to organize and deliver high standards of evidence-based nursing care
* Ability to assess, monitor, plan and evaluate care
* Good organizational skills and ability to prioritise and delegate
* Ability to liaise effectively with Primary Care teams
* Experience and knowledge of holistic initial assessments
* Desirable
* Experience of managing a team within healthcare
* Experience in older people’s care including chronic disease management in acute, community, or intermediate care
* Ability to undertake clinical audit and analyse data, producing required reports
Knowledge and skills
* Essential
* Understanding of complex needs and long-term condition management
* Safeguarding knowledge and ability to escalate issues around vulnerable adults
* IT and clinical systems competence (e.g., EMIS)
* Knowledge of community nursing practice and current legislation
* Knowledge of information governance
* Desirable
* Knowledge of HR processes for line management of staff
* Knowledge of current professional issues facing nursing
Disclosure and Vetting
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and requires Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service. UK registration is required, with current UK professional registration.
Additional information
Note: This description includes standard UK employment checks and sponsorship information as applicable.
Employer
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Tower Hamlets Community Health Team, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1FR
Employer's website: https://www.elft.nhs.uk/
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