Community Clinic Nurse: Sponsorship Available

East Coast Community Healthcare CIC

Job summary

Are you a Registered Nurse (Adult) with a passion for wound healing and leg ulcer diagnosis and treatment? Do you want to progress your nursing career with a supportive and encouraging team, delivering person centered care in a clinic and occasionally a home setting; utilising health coaching to support patient involvement in shared decision making.

Do you like the idea of forming longer term therapeutic relationships with patients and their families?

The PCH is a multidisciplinary team delivering health care to people in Great Yarmouth. The combined skills of the team mean they are able to respond to the changing needs of patients and support those who may have previously been admitted to hospital to remain at home. The leg ulcer clinic is a valuable asset within the PCH delivering specialised leg ulcer care to patients who are not housebound.

The clinic operates Monday to Friday 08:30- 16:30 excluding bank holidays.

This post is offered up to 37.5hours per week. We are able to support part time and flexible working arrangements.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinic Nurse you will be providing an excellent standard of person centered care to adults with a lower leg wound in a clinic setting and occasionally their own home.

You will participate in the planning and efficient running of the leg ulcer clinic at Joseph Kittle centre Martham, Northgate hospital and Shrublands surgery.

This role includes triage of incoming referrals, determining clinical priority, completing holistic patient assessment, specific wound assessments including recording dopplers, diagnosis and treatment plan, for patients referred to the service and supporting patients to self care using health coaching.

You will be supported to complete the leg ulcer management course delivered in partnership with Accelerate CIC, and a health coaching qualification. You will be encouraged to continue your own professional development and contribute to service improvement. You will be part of the PCH support for students; those on an apprenticeship route and newly qualified nurses. Once experienced you will be a knowledgeable resource on leg ulceration to the wider PCH; other ECCH clinicians; primary care and other partners.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • *Professional Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council. (NMC) Registered Nurse Level (Adult)
  • *BSc in Nursing practice or equivalent

Desirable

  • *Leg Ulcer Management Module at Degree level

Experience

Essential

  • *The ability to work unsupervised.
  • *Evidence of continuous professional development
  • *The ability to demonstrate a comprehensive level of clinical knowledge and competence within the clinical sphere of practice
  • *Evidence of experience in working to a case management approach

Desirable

  • *Mentoring
  • *Experience of working in a community setting

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
  • *Excellent interpersonal skills
  • *Excellent verbal and written skills
  • *Ability to engage with patients to develop effective treatment plans
  • *Ability to positively support and educate staff, patients and their carers
  • *Ability to perform a holistic assessment using clinical judgement
  • *Competent in application of compression bandaging as part of a treatment package to manage lower leg ulceration
  • *Competence in Health Coaching, supporting patients to change health behaviours and beliefs
  • *The ability to perform and interpret Doppler readings as part of a holistic assessment or be willing to learn
  • PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
  • Flexible, team-orientated approach to work
  • Solution and results focused
  • Ability to organise and manage a delegated caseload effectively
  • Ability to travel independently throughout the locality in accordance with role requirements
  • Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours:
  • (Compassion – We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action – My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect – Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone – Work Together, Achieve Together)

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 15 October 2026

To apply for this job please visit ecch.tal.net.