Senior Community Nurse Assessor
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Stroud, GL52HYView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
8 November 2026
16 days leftJob description
This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 18.75 hours per week. Are you a passionate and motivated Registered Nurse looking ...
- Complete holistic nursing assessments and develop personalised care plans for patients discharged through Home First and other discharge-to-assess pathways.
- Support safe and timely hospital discharges and help prevent avoidable hospital admissions.
- Deliver evidence-based nursing care, treatment, and intervention for patients with complex, acute, sub-acute, and long-term conditions.
- Identify ongoing nursing needs and coordinate seamless handover to Community Nursing Teams where required.
- Work collaboratively with therapists, reablement staff, GPs, social care teams, and other system partners across One Gloucestershire.
- Promote independence through health coaching, education, goal-setting, and personalised care approaches.
- Support medicines management and clinical decision-making to optimise patient outcomes.
- Provide advice and support to patients, carers, and families to maximise health, wellbeing, and self-management.
- Contribute to service improvement, quality assurance, audit activity, and patient safety initiatives.
- Support the development of colleagues and students through supervision, coaching, and leadership within the team.
- Manage and prioritise a dynamic caseload, demonstrating excellent clinical judgement and organisational skills.
Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.
This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Governments UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
To support compliance with UK immigration requirements, all applicants who require a visa to work in the UK must disclose their visa history in full. This includes current and previous sponsors, dates of sponsorship, visa category, and any changes of employment. If you are on a Graduate or Dependant Visa, please disclose the expiry date on your application. Incomplete information may mean we are unable to consider your application
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Registered Nurse (Adult / RGN)
- Current NMC registration
- Individual modules at degree or masters level, eg. PACR
- Holds recognised teaching/ mentoring qualification
LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience of working without direct supervision
- Consolidated experience of community nursing practice
- Experience of managing long term conditions and case management of complex patients
- Experience of delivering extended role clinical interventions
- Evidence of post-registration education & training.
PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative, assess patients competently and link with colleagues in the wider MDT to tailor plans of care
- Ability to effectively manage the workload, prioritise and delegate to manage capacity and demand
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Knowledge of safeguarding procedures
Desirable
- An understanding of national policy in relation to community nursing
- Up to date clinical knowledge including risk assessment
- Knowledge of health coaching techniques to engage patient participation and outcome
How to apply
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First seen
21 October 2026
Last checked
23 October 2026
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