Community Nurse - West Norwich Community Nursing Team


Company:	Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
Salary:	£31,049 - £37,796 pro rata per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Norwich, NR2 3TU
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	23 Oct 2026
Closing date:	22 Nov 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust.

Norwich Community Nursing teams have an exciting opportunity for a registered nurse to join our friendly and supportive team of Nurses, Health Care Assistants, Assistant Practitioners and Nursing Associates, to provide nursing care and interventions across Norwich Place. You will be based at Norwich Community Hospital working shifts 8am-6pm which include working weekends and bank holidays.

Applications are welcomed from experienced and newly qualified registered nurses. A supernumerary period is available and you will be supported with training and supervision.

The Community Nursing service treats patients in their own homes, including residential homes and supported living complexes. We also provide some services in a clinic setting including our leg ulcer clinic and catheter clinic.

NCH&C is committed to the development of future health clinicians and there will be an expectation that alongside their clinical responsibilities the Band 5 Community Nurses support students, apprentices and junior colleagues in practice.

Informal discussions and visits are welcomed

Key responsibilities include

• To assess, prescribe and deliver care packages for patients. To work within the integrated team to facilitate early discharge from hospital.

• To work within the integrated team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.

• To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.

• To process referrals though clinical assessment, evaluating the information received to prioritise a response and allocate to the appropriate service.

• To liaise and communicate with the general public, other health care professionals, and multi-agencies on a daily basis.

• To provide clinical assessment for incoming nursing referrals.

Norwich Place is working alongside it's commissioners and local service providers as part of Primary Care Networks to develop community based services that support patients to remain at home and receive the services they require in an effective and co-ordinated way.

Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in 2018, the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS Community Trust in the country to be awarded the title.

If you are aged 16-30 and not currently in education, employment or training, our colleagues at the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (supported by the Princes Trust), can provide application and interview coaching. To request this support please contactNWICB.Careers@nhs.net

The workload requires a good range of clinical skills to be applied in managing our patients with varied health problems including diabetes management, traumatic and post-operative wound care, pressure ulcer prevention and management, catheter management, bowel care, and palliative and end of life care.

Many of our patients will have complex multiple pathologies and so we aim to provide holistic, patient centred assessments, and deliver individualised care.

This advert closes on Monday 9 Nov 2026

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