Job summary
- Main area
- Community nursing
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: full time
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 818-NUR271-QIA1619-C
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- South Lincs ICT
- Town
- Spalding
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 Per Annum, Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Staff Nurse
Band 5
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at LCHS.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our teams – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
We have adopted a vision of "Caring and building a healthier future for all" and three values to show what we stand for, how we want to be known and how we behave. Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:
Compassionate
Collaborative
Innovative
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the LCHG team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients. We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best. We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
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Job overview
Lincolnshire Community Heath Service (LCHS) have an opportunity for Registered Nurses to join their South Lincs Community Nursing Team.
We have vacancies for 2 full time position.
As a community staff nurse you will be required to work autonomously and as part of a team, delivering care to patients in their own homes, care homes and clinic settings. Successful candidates will be responsible for assessing care needs, and the planning, delivery and evaluation of nursing care using innovative evidence based practice.
Main duties of the job
Community nursing is exceptionally rewarding as it allows wonderful therapeutic relationships to be developed with patients in their own homes. Working in this capacity embodies the person centred care approach and allows patients to truly be at the centre of care delivery.
The skillset of a community nurse is vast and non-exhaustive requiring knowledge and expertise in a range of areas. Examples of interventions provided are wound management, continence care, palliative care, medication administration and long term condition management. Close working with the MDT (Social Workers, GP's and Allied Health Professionals) to ensure that patients care is effectively co-ordinated, demonstrates a positive impact on our patients.
For more information about the role of a community nurse watch the following video from The Queen's Nursing Institute
The Work of Community Nurses – The Queen's Nursing Institute (qni.org.uk)
Working for our organisation
‘Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.
At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS’ workforce.
LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.
We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an ‘earn while you learn’ apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev’
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As this is a community post, you must be able to travel to patients homes and clinic settings. Due to the rurality of Lincolnshire some areas are not well covered by public transport therefore having access to transport is essential.
The service works through the hours of 8:00am to 6:30pm 7 days a week and is covered by variable shift patterns of Early shifts 8:00am -4:00pm, Mid shifts 9.00-17.00 and late shifts of 10:30am - 6:30pm.
The Community Nursing service delivers a 12 week induction programme for all new staff. We also offer a robust preceptorship and clinical skills programme with an experienced clinical education team. This provides peer support in addition to the requisite training required to fulfil the role to its true potential.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you will need, you are encourage to look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading and refer back to these documents when completing your application.
You should use your application form to show that you meet all or most of the essential criteria outlined in the person specification for the position. If you fail to demonstrate this in your answers, or you are unable to meet the criteria, it is unlikely you will be shortlisted for an interview for that post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate current 1st level UK NMC adult nurse registration
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Demonstration of mentorship, supervisor or assessor qualification and its use in practice
- Further relevant training e.g. palliative care, wound care, elderly care, diabetes
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of completed leadership modules/qualification
- Evidence of V100 or V150 Community Practitioner prescribing course undertaken
- Post registration qualifications e.g. palliative care, care of the elderly, wound care, continence or other relevant post remigration qualifications
Experience
Essential criteria
- Can demonstrate experience of assessment, care planning and care delivery
- Experience of delegation and supervision of others
- Evidence of the application of research and evidence based care
- Evidence of experience in teaching / disseminating knowledge and skills
- Experience of team working
Desirable criteria
- Experience of health promotion/ coaching strategies
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates a range of clinical skills pertinent to area of practice
- Demonstrates excellent communication skills including record keeping
- Demonstrates IT and electronic patient record systems
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates ability to undertake practice audit
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Michelle Witherington
- Job title
- CTL
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07907863741
- Additional information
CTL - Sarah Coaton 07583 082072
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