Senior Community Nurse
The closing date is 15 February 2026
Job summary
HIOW Healthcare are looking for an inspirational registered nurse to work as a Senior Community Nurse. Community Nurses work autonomously and as part of a team and care is delivered in the patients own home environment and designated treatment rooms. Our nurses are responsible for a manageable caseload, working across the city ensuring our patients are receiving the best quality care from the comfort of their own homes and thereby avoiding hospital admission.
HIOW Healthcares Community Nursing is much wider than the nursing team. We work alongside our colleagues within Social Care, our Internal Safeguarding Team, specialist services, both within Solent and external providers, to ensure our patients are provided with the care they require. Working collaboratively enhances staff development but also ensures that our patients are at the heart of everything we do.
It's a fixed contract, 37.5 hrs pw role based at Thomas Lewis House in Southampton. Our working patterns are across a 7 day week. Our core shifts are 0830 to 1630 and 1400 to 2000 hrs. There is also a requirement that you will work 1 in 4 weekends as well as bank holidays.
Although a lone worker, you will be supported by an experienced and nurturing team who are available to allow you to develop your existing skills. You will be provided the training you require to maintain and develop your clinical skills. This will be achieved by attending appropriate training and working with our Clinical Educators and other staff within the team.
Main duties of the job
To work in partnership with Primary Care to provide high quality clinical care for
patients, often with complex care needs, living in the community, who require a
programme of care/rehabilitation following an inpatient episode or who are living
with long term conditions and are at risk of deteriorating health that may result in
declining quality of life.
To support the Clinical Manager and Integrated Service Matron in providing
clinical knowledge and leadership to the community nursing staff in the wider
locality health team, supervising and developing junior staff and contributing to the
achievement of divisional business delivery objectives.
To work collaboratively with partners in health and social care, to establish a whole
systems approach to managing patients with complex care needs, maintaining a
community pull on patients being admitted to secondary care, to inform decisions
about acute interventions and to lead in the discharge planning.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
Date posted
02 February 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
13 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
348-SSW-10378
Job locations
Thomas Lewis House
236 Empress Road
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 0JY
Employer details
Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Thomas Lewis House
236 Empress Road
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 0JY
Employer's website
https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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