About the job

Are you looking for a role where no 2 days are the same?

We are looking for motivated and compassionate Band 5 Community Nurses to join our dynamic locality teams. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver high quality person centered nursing care to people in their own homes, supporting them to remain independent, safe and well within their community.

This role is ideal for newly qualified nurses, those seeking their first community post, or nurses wanting to broaden their skills and progress with locality teams, within a well structured career pathway.

You will be offered a structured preceptorship and as a community nurse working within the planned care service , you will be providing high quality care for people in their own homes, ranging from long term conditions, to complex and palliative care. You’ll be working on a rotational basis as part of a seven-day service, with the support of agile technology to help you deliver timely, high quality care, with support from specialists across the Trust.

Shift patterns are between the hours of 8am and 9pm, 7 days per week and We have vacancies across multiple community locality teams.

Closing date -03/05/2026

Shortlisting – 07/05/2026

Interviewing – 21/05/2026

To work as part of the district nursing team to ensure high quality health care is delivered to patients in their own home and/ or clinic setting. To work in collaboration with the wider Primary Health Care team, whilst participating in the assessment of health needs and delivery of care to the practice population. The service is delivered over a 7 day rota and postholders are expected to work flexibly in line with agreed operating hours to cover a 24 hour service

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

Benefits

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Linda Martin Job title: Community Team Leader Email address: Linda.martin@bdct.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07738 985417