Overview
Wilton Community Team are seeking a Band 6 Specialist Community Nurse. Join our dynamic and supportive Wilton Community Team and help shape the future of community healthcare.
Responsibilities
* Provide nursing care, treatment, support, and advice to individuals in their own homes or outpatient settings.
* Promote patient independence and wellbeing, working within national and local frameworks, professional guidelines, and organisational policies.
* Deliver safe, person-centred care to a diverse caseload of patients with both short-term and long-term conditions.
* Take clinical leadership responsibility for peers, junior trained staff, and support workers within your discipline.
* Offer expert advice and guidance to other health and social care professionals.
* To manage a caseload of patients independently and be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning and implementing nursing treatment and care to patients within professional guidelines.
* Organise and manage own time and that of junior staff/students, allocating work appropriately in order to achieve the patients goals.
* To manage risks in diverse and sometimes challenging environments.
* To use evidence-based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective.
* To maintain Clinical Governance Standards through audit, research and evidence gathering.
* Assist in the monitoring and protecting of groups and individuals whose health and well-being may be at risk e.g.: vulnerable adults.
Qualifications and Requirements
* Registered nurse
* First degree
* Post graduate community qualification e.g. community specialist practitioner
* Recognised assessing and supervising students in practice qualification
* Current, valid driving licence and be a competent driver
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Knowledge of legislation affecting professional practice
* Experience of applying research-based information to practice
* Non-medical prescriber
* Up to date community experience
* Case management experience
* Significant experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team
* Leadership experience
* Teaching experience
* Knowledge of recruitment, selection & appraisal system
* Setting and monitoring standards of care
* Experience within a wide range of patient/client care groups
* To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds
* To be able to work flexibly and sensitively
* Please see the attached JD for the full list of essential criteria
* You will have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes.
* You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Benefits
* AFC Band 6 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
* Plentiful on site-parking
* Membership of My Reward Hub with discounts, cashback and offers
* Access to wages as you earn them
* Support for mental and physical wellbeing, plus career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, career pathways and continuing professional development
* Open, just culture with ideas to improve services and ringfenced innovation funding
* High clinical quality standards with many services rated good or outstanding by the Care Quality Commission
* Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
Details
Salary: £37,338 to £44,962 a year
Contract: Fixed term – 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Location: HCRG Care Group, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP2 0HT
Date posted: 11 September 2025
Employer: HCRG Care Group
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