Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 150-KB1942-CC-B
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 4th Floor Crawley Hospital
- Town
- Crawley
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Staff Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Staff Nurse to join Crawley Healthy & First community PCN.
The PCN is a group of practices working together in collaboration with community and other health and care services. PCNs will enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care. Care is organised around individuals' identified needs through collaborative working by service providers to deliver excellent patient care at the heart of the community.
Crawley Healthy & First Community PCN Team are looking for registered nurses to join the team. If you are newly registered or looking for a new challenge, Community Nursing offers a great opportunity to specialise in a highly diverse and rewarding field.
Community nursing offers the applicants many specialties in one role.
Any successful applicants will have an individual induction plan to ease into this community environment.
Main duties of the job
To deliver high quality care in the community in patients own homes, working with patients towards rehabilitation, self-management and independence throughout the continuum of care. To participate in a team of colleagues supporting evidence based care, facilitating staff learning and development.
The main aspects of the role are diabetic management, wound management including leg ulcer diagnosis and treatment, palliative care working very closely with the Hospice and GP’s, bladder and bowel care including urethral and supra pubic catheters and other continence needs.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To deliver high quality care in the community, working with patients towards rehabilitation, self-management and independence throughout the continuum of care.
To participate in a team of colleagues supporting evidence based care, facilitating staff learning and development.
Please see job description for further information.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- RN qualification / degree or diploma
- ENB 998 or equivalent or work towards
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of a range of clinical competencies
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in a community setting
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good numeracy and literacy skills
- Good communication and negotiation skills
- Demonstrates competency in a range of clinical skills e.g. wound management, catheterisation skills, medicines management and administration, palliative and end of life care including management of syringe drivers.
- Is able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
- Knowledge of current local policies informing community health and social care services
- A clear understanding of the role of the Community Staff Nurse
- Promote independence and choice in undertaking patient care
- IT literate or willing to achieve within an agreed period
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance, clinical audit and clinical supervision, Professional codes of Conduct
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge/ understanding of boundaries of role
- Practice supervisor
Desirable criteria
- Motivational interviewing skills
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates abillity to reflect and learn from situations
- Demonstrates a commitment to life-long learning and development/competency framework
- Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
- Demonstrates a high level of understanding of self and able to identify personal limitation, shows openess to address them
- Ability to travel between sites, car owner and driver with access to a vehicle for work
- An understanding of the principles of equal opportunities in relation to staff and patients
Must Hold a full UK driving license & access to a car.
Essential criteria
- Full UK license
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jane Kavanagh
- Job title
- Operational Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07824606688
- Additional information
Visits to the team are welcomed.
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