Senior Community Nurse
East London NHS Foundation Trust
London, E1 4DG
Salary
£47,951 to £56,863
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
6 September 2026
6 days left
Job description
Band 6 - Senior Community Nurse - Tower Hamlets, London Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours) Are you looking to progress your Clinical and leadership skills ...
- To work as part of a team ensuring all referrals are triaged and have a timely visit scheduled.
- 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.
- To introduce and enable self management and self care.
- 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.
- To work in partnership with the locality teams and partner providers to maintain effective patient flow.
- To work within the financial resources for the patients and the service.
- To work shifts patters on a rota: (8am-4pm, 10am-6pm and 12pm-8pm) Monday to Sunday.
For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact the recruiting manager.
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.
Education/qualification/training
Essential
- RGN
Desirable
- DN Cert/Dip/Degree
- Advanced history taking and physical assessment course
- Non-Medical Prescriber V300
- Non-Medical Prescriber V300
- Nurse Formulary prescriber V100
Experience
Essential
- Ability to organize and deliver high standards of evidence based clinical nursing care
- Ability to assess, monitor , plan and evaluate care
- Good organizational Skills and ability to priories work and delegate effectively to the team
- Ability to liaise effectively with members of the Primary care team.
- Experience and knowledge on holistic initial assessments.
Desirable
- Experience of managing a team within the health care setting
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Understanding and knowledge of the complex needs and long term conditions management.
- Good knowledge of safeguarding processes and able to escalate issues around vulnerable adults
- Sound knowledge and competence in IT and clinical systems for example Emis.
- Knowledge of community nursing practice and current legislation
- Knowledge of information governance and the responsibility
Desirable
- Knowledge of HR process for line management of staff
- Knowledge of current professional issues facing nursing
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
21 August 2026
Last checked
25 August 2026
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