East Coast Community Healthcare CIC
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Sister / Charge Nurse / District Nurse to join our Primary Care Home team delivering high quality nursing care to the population of South Waveney which includes Beccles, Bungay, Halesworth, Southwold and Kessingland. If you are motivated, adaptable, forward thinking and you see yourself leading within community healthcare, then this could be the role for you.
The role contains variety every day with a mixture of face to face clinical practice, leadership and management. You will be responsible for the line management of a number of clinicians, have the opportunity to participate in HR processes including recruitment, appraisals and supporting junior members of the team. We welcome applicants who have a desire to improve clinical practice.
This role sits in a multidisciplinary team providing community services 7 days per week 07:00 – 20:30 hours
The core nursing shift is 08:30 – 16:30. Other shifts included in the rota are 07:00 – 15:00 and 12:00 – 20:00. Weekend and bank holiday working on a rotational basis.
The post is offered up to 37.5 hours per week.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical leadership, operational management and professional support to community nursing within Primary Care homes
To work with other members of the multidisciplinary team to provide planned and unplanned care
To provide expert clinical case management for patients living in the community who require nursing care
To work autonomously at a level appropriate to clinical competence and within scope of professional practice
To carry out rapid assessments in patients own home with the aim of preventing admission to the acute hospital. These assessments will take a holistic ethos including physical, physiological and social aspects of need.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)
- BSc in Nursing Practice or equivalent.
- Evidence of continued professional development and a professional portfolio.
- Leadership/ management qualification or willing to undertake.
- Health Coaching programme.
Desirable
- Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing.
- Community Nurse Prescriber v100 /v150.
- Independent non- medical prescriber.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working within a similar field of nursing/healthcare
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with frail older adults and awareness of the complex issues relating to this client group
Desirable
- Previous experience at band 6 level.
- Clinical experience gained in a community/intermediate care setting.
- Student supervision/clinical education.
- Experience of clinical audit.
- Experience of successful change management.
- Experience of facilitating clinical supervision.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
- Ability to deal sensitively with patients who may have high levels of anxiety.
- Capacity to concentrate for considerable periods of time during assessment and management of patients and be expected to respond immediately to interruptions.
- Must have an understanding of the legal and ethical issues pertaining to nursing.
- Leadership skills.
- Assessment and patient management skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Negotiating and influencing skills.
- Good IT skills.
- Effective organisation and time management skills.
- PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Able to work both collaboratively within a team and independently.
- Able to contribute to team, service and organisational development.
- Commitment to person centred, non-discriminatory practice.
- Aware of requirements for confidentiality.
- Forward thinking with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Able to maintain judgment under pressure.
- Able to maintain motivation, drive, enthusiasm.
- Flexible approach to work and participate in various shift patterns.
- Access to transport and ability to travel around the community.
- Due to the variety of community working, the ability will be needed to access a diverse range of properties.
- To carry out assessments.
- 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).
- Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.
Desirable
- Experience of I.V. medication administration
Closing Date: 13 September 2026
To apply for this job please visit ecch.tal.net.