Job overview
Band 6 - Senior Community Nurse - Tower Hamlets, London
Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours)
Are you looking to progress your Clinical and leadership skills and be at the forefront of change?
We in the District Nursing team, have an ambitious vision for the Tower Hamlets community health service. We are striving to deliver high standards of care at the point of entry into our services, with the aim of improving access to the quality of life for all of our patients. One of our main aims is also to enable self care and independence.
Date : 17th January 2026
Time : 09:00 am – 16:00 pm (Come prepared to be interviewed on the day)
Morning registration: 9:00 AM -10:00 AM (We wont accept candidates for the morning session after this time)
Morning Interview : 09:30 am - 12:30 pm
Afternoon registration: 12:30 - 13:15 pm (We wont accept candidates for the afternoon session after this time)
Afternoon Interview : 13:15 - 16:00 pm
Address : Beaumont house third floor, Mile end, Bethnal Green, London E1 4NS
Role : Senior Community Nurse
Main duties of the job
1. To work as part of a team ensuring all referrals are triaged and have a visit schedule for the appropriate service.
2. To work as part of a team ensuring all new admissions to the Community Nursing services have a clinically robust assessment and patient focused care plan. This is borough wide cover.
3. To introduce and enable self management and self care.
4. To work as part of a team ensuring all patients have a safe handover to the professional and team to complete the care plan and measure the outcomes.
5. To work in partnership with the locality teams and partner providers to maintain effective patient flow.
6. To work within the financial resources for the patients and the service.
7. To work shifts patters on a rota: (8am-4pm, 10am-6pm and 12pm-8pm) Monday to Sunday
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.
If further information is required then please do contact the recruiting manager.
Person specification
Education/Qualification/Training
Essential criteria
8. RGN
Desirable criteria
9. DN Cert/Dip/Degree
10. Non-Medical Prescriber V300
11. Nurse Formulary prescriber V100
12. Advanced history taking and physical assessment course
Experience
Essential criteria
13. Ability to organize and deliver high standards of evidence based clinical nursing care
14. Ability to assess, monitor, plan and evaluate care
15. Good organizational Skills and ability to priories work and delegate effectively to the team
16. Experience of Budget management
17. Ability to liaise effectively with members of the Primary care team.
Desirable criteria
18. Experience of managing a team with the health care setting
19. Experience and knowledge on holistic initial assessments.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
20. Understanding and knowledge of the complex needs and long term conditions management
21. Good knowledge of safeguarding processes and able to escalate issues around vulnerable adults.
22. Knowledge of agencies and organisations within the primary care systems that can be utilized to gain optimum care for a patient
23. Sound knowledge and competence in IT and clinical systems for example Emis
24. Knowledge of HR process for line management of staff
25. Knowledge of current professional issues facing nursing
26. Knowledge of community nursing practice and current legislation
27. Knowledge of information governance and the responsibility