Community Staff Nurse

Job summary
Do you live in or want to work within Buckinghamshire?

Are you an experienced Band 5 Registered Nurse looking for an exciting opportunity to develop your career in Community Nursing?

We have an exciting opportunity for two motivated and enthusiastic Band 5 Community Staff Nurses to join our service in a new and innovative role, working across our seven locality teams.

This is a predominantly proactive, community-based role, focusing on delivering planned care and supporting patients to manage their health and wellbeing within their own homes.

The successful candidates will undertake a range of clinical activities, including long-term condition reviews, continence assessments and management, and phlebotomy (blood tests). The role will also involve providing clinical guidance and support to Healthcare Assistants, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality patient care.

Working collaboratively with the wider multidisciplinary team, you will play an important role in promoting patient independence, preventing avoidable hospital admissions and supporting timely discharge from hospital.

Main duties of the job

• To contribute to processes for service and quality improvement
• Assess the physical and psycho-social needs of patients and deliver therapeutic interventions based on best available evidence in order to improve health outcomes.
• To manage own case load, delivering and evaluating service delivery to patients with a variety of medical conditions and those delegated by case managers.
• To plan interventions with the Case Manager and other team members using the common assessment process
• To take part in the referral management process to ensure patients are treated by the most appropriate member of the team/service
• To contribute to the development of protocols and procedures developed for clinical pathways

About us
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We are committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

What do we stand for?

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Closing date: 09 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum (pro rata for part time)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
Reference number: 434-CR8230491-B

Job responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.

Person Specification
Education, qualification and training

• Essential: Registered Nurse/Awaiting NMC PIN
• Desirable: Evidence of further continued professional development
• Desirable: Post qualification experience in relevant speciality
• Desirable: Hold / be working towards an NMC approved mentoring qualification

Experience

• Essential: Ability to understand the role of a registered nurse
• Essential: Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
• Essential: Awareness of current professional nursing issues
• Desirable: Post registration experience working in an acute hospital setting

Skills, abilities and knowledge

• Essential: Good verbal and written communication skills and ability to negotiate
• Essential: Ability to manage and prioritise own caseload with supervision; Willingness to develop teaching skills
• Essential: Ability to solve problems and use initiative
• Essential: Ability to develop clinical skills
• Essential: Willingness to undergo training (e.g. medications) Basic IT skills
• Essential: Awareness of the NHSE guidance of clinical governance in order to continuously improve quality of care e.g. quality, safety and ward audit standards
• Essential: Knowledge of the NMC code of conduct
• Essential: Ability to maintain a safe clinical environment conducive to patient care
• Essential: Adaptable to change
• Essential: Ability to work rotating shifts
• Essential: Diplomatic approach with professionalism
• Essential: Flexible and approachable
• Desirable: Knowledge of care planning, preceptorship, reflection and clinical supervision

Special circumstances

• Essential: Able to travel to other sites and off site as necessary

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Address: Chichester House or William Rathbone House, Hamden Road, High Wycombe or Aylesbury, HP12 3RE, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://careers.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact: Lead Nurse for Community Nursing, Claire Jones, claire.jones18@nhs.net, 07929370499

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