North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (BCH)
Community Staff Nurse
The closing date is 08 May 2026
A vacancy has become available within the community nursing service in Halton. Qualified nurses with enthusiasm and motivation are invited to apply. The role involves providing high‑quality care to housebound patients, including palliative care, wound management, catheter maintenance, and phlebotomy. Candidates should possess the necessary skills to deliver patient care in home settings, demonstrate a commitment to working collaboratively within an integrated team, and be prepared to continuously develop their professional knowledge. Community nursing is advancing rapidly, and adaptability to change is essential. Flexibility, autonomous practice, and effective communication are key in ensuring safe, responsive community nursing services.
Main duties of the job
The post holder plays a vital role in supporting the District Nursing team through the management of an assigned caseload.
Key responsibilities encompass the assessment, planning, and evaluation of patient care needs. The incumbent works closely with the District Nurse to facilitate effective communication regarding patient care, maintain up‑to‑date care plans, and ensure seamless continuity of services, especially during reviews of complex care arrangements. Additional duties include contributing to mentoring, educational, and assessment activities. Collaboration with healthcare professionals and external agencies is integral to providing efficient and high‑quality service delivery.
About us
Flexible working will be considered for all roles.
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) serves more than one million residents across the Halton and Warrington boroughs and the wider North West region.
Bringing together community and out‑of‑hospital services (formerly provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare) with inpatient and elective care (formerly Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals) we provide services at two hospital sites and more than 70 community hubs and facilities.
Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM). They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation.
Our mission: We will be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other.
Our vision: We will be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn.
Our values:
* Kind: We are caring, supportive and respectful to everyone.
* Open: We are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working.
* Fair: We listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all.
* One team: We work well together and with our communities.
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
* Have responsibility for managing patients/clients within a defined clinical service/area, providing evidence‑based care and advice.
* Provide a nursing assessment of patients/clients; plan, develop and/or implement and evaluate programmes of care.
* Provide clinical supervision to other staff, students.
* May be responsible for routine work allocation and checking of tasks of support staff and/or less experienced staff.
* Communicate effectively with patients, staff and public using verbal, non‑verbal and interpersonal skills within everyday interactions, using strategies to address any barriers to understanding.
* Use manual and digital systems as effective communication tools with members of the health care team including for planned interventions and in times of escalation when supporting patient safety, contemporaneous record keeping and confidentiality.
* Plan, assess and evaluate programmes of care, including of a patient and or carer, according to changing health needs under the direction of the District Nurse, making informed decisions when deploying any responsible adjustments to an identified patient need.
* Deliver effective care and clinical skills including the safe administration and destruction of medicines, maximising patient dignity, comfort and safety.
* Utilise monitoring processes including of vital signs, taking timely intervention, action and/or escalation when supporting patient safety.
* Understand and use relevant patient pathways and discharge processes aimed at optimising the patient experience and outcomes, communicating and collaborating with other members of the Primary Health Care Team, voluntary and statutory organisations to support individual patient care.
* Communicate appropriately, during and following a patient’s transfer of care, with health professionals or support networks, maintaining a patient safety approach.
Person Specification
Practical Skills
* The ability to travel independently across the Trust.
* The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs.
Experience
* Range of extended clinical skills & demonstrate clinical knowledge.
* Venepuncture and immunisation.
* Able to communicate sensitive information to patients, relatives and carers.
* Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate packages of care.
* Previous community experience.
Knowledge and Understanding
* Experience of using Electronic Patient Records.
* Audit and research.
* Supra pubic catheterisation.
* Tissue viability qualification.
* IV Therapy.
* Chronic disease management.
* Experience of working within palliative care.
* Teaching & assessing skills.
Relationships
If you are related to a director or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship.
Attitude and Behaviour
* Displays care, compassion, sensitivity, and responsiveness to other peoples feelings and needs.
* Able to work as part of a team, cooperating to work together and in conjunction with others and willing to help and assist wherever possible and appropriate, appreciating the value of diversity in the workplace.
* Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with others both internal and external to the organisation and with patients and their carers.
* Able to work under pressure, dealing with peaks and troughs in workload managing unpredictable service demands.
* Positive and flexible attitude to dealing with change explore new ways of doing things and approaches.
* Able to respond to the changing needs of the patient in a proficient and timely manner.
* Demonstrates values consistent with those of the Trust.
* Ability and willingness to adopt a flexible approach to work on the occasions it may be required.
Sponsorship
* Please confirm your Right to Work status (share‑codes will be checked where applicable).
Qualifications
* Active NMC registered adult nurse.
* Nursing Qualification at level 5/6 study.
* Teaching and Assessing qualification.
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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