Overview
Band 6 Specilaist Community Nurse – Wilton
Job Introduction
Wilton Community Team are seeking a Band 6 Specialist Community Nurse. Join our dynamic and supportive Wilton Community Team and help shape the future of community healthcare.
As a Specialist Community Nurse, you will:
Provide nursing care, treatment, support, and advice to individuals in their own homes or outpatient settings.
Promote patient independence and wellbeing, working within national and local frameworks, professional guidelines, and organisational policies.
Deliver safe, person-centred care to a diverse caseload of patients with both short-term and long-term conditions.
Take clinical leadership responsibility for peers, junior trained staff, and support workers within your discipline.
Offer expert advice and guidance to other health and social care professionals.
Act as a key member of the team, contributing to service development and maintaining high standards of care.
What We’re Looking For:
A registered nurse (Adult) with current NMC registration.
Significant post-registration experience in a community or primary care setting.
Strong leadership skills and the ability to supervise and support junior staff.
Confidence in managing a caseload, prioritising work, and making complex clinical decisions.
A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle (essential for community visits).
Ready to make a difference in community healthcare?
Apply today and become a valued member of the Wilton Community Team.
For any enquiries, please contact Beth Palmer – elizabeth.Palmer@hcrgcaregroup.com
Main Responsibility
This post is responsible for:
• To manage a caseload of patients independently and be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning and implementing nursing treatment and care to patients within professional guidelines.
• Organise and manage own time and that of junior staff/students, allocating work appropriately in order to achieve the patient’s goals.
• To manage risks in diverse and sometimes challenging environments.
• To use evidence-based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective.
• To maintain Clinical Governance Standards through audit, research and evidence gathering.
• Assist in the monitoring and protecting of groups and individuals whose health and well-being may be at risk e.g.: vulnerable adults.
• To highlight and report appropriate and potential risks.
• To develop and demonstrate clinical credibility through professional practice, supervision and regular updating of clinical skills.
• To facilitate teaching to patients, carers and team members.
• To actively participate in promoting health e.g.: smoking cessation, healthy diet and sign-posting to appropriate services or support groups.
• Develop and maintain skills required for patient care within a community setting.
Please see the attached JD for the full list of responsibilities
The Ideal Candidate
• Registered nurse
• First degree
• Post graduate community qualification e.g. community specialist practitioner
• Recognised assessing and supervising students in practice qualification.
• To possess a current, valid driving licence and to be a competent driver
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Knowledge of legislation affecting professional practice
• Experience of applying research-based information to practice
• Non-medical prescriber
• Up to date community experience
• Case management experience
• Significant experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team
• Leadership experience
• Teaching experience
• Knowledge of recruitment, selection & appraisal system
• Setting and monitoring standards of care
• Experience within a wide range of patient/client care groups.
• To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
• To be able to work flexibly and sensitively.
Please see the attached JD for the full list of essential criteria
You will have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Package Description
As a Band 6 Community Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team at Wilton Health Centre Centre, working for the Wilton Community Team.
You will feel valued as a Community Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- AFC Band 6 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
- Plentiful on site-parking
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website’s privacy policy.
