Senior Community Nurse

OverviewBand 6 - Senior Community Nurse - Tower Hamlets, London

Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours)

Are you passionate about making a difference for older people and supporting safe, timely discharges from hospital? Do you want to be part of an innovative, integrated service working at the interface of acute and community care?

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Band 6 Community Nurse to join our Integrated In-Reach and Older People Service, helping to deliver high quality, person-centred care for patients living with frailty, complex health care needs, and social care challenges. This role is central to supporting hospital flow, avoiding unnecessary admissions, and ensuring patients return safely to their home or community setting with the right care in place. This is ideal for a dynamic, forward-thinking nurse with experience in acute, community, or older people’s services.

You will be confident working across boundaries, enjoy problem solving, and thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can make a real impact on patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

Work proactively on hospital wards to identify medically fit patients at risk of delayed discharge and coordinate timely, safe transitions of care.

Use advanced assessment and frailty and falls screening skills to support older people with complex needs, ensuring personalised care planning.

Collaborate closely with community health services, social care, primary care, and care homes to streamline pathways and avoid readmissions.

Provide clinical leadership, education, and support to junior colleagues, care staff, and multidisciplinary teams.

Contribute to service development and the wider frailty and admission avoidance pathway, ensuring best practice and innovation.

This borough-wide role involves introducing and enabling self-management and self-care where appropriate.

Work as part of a team ensuring all patients have a safe handover to the professional and team to complete the care plan and measure outcomes.

About usOur mission is to make a positive difference to people’s lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive. We are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Qualifications and experienceEducation/Qualification/Training

RGN

Physical assessment and first contact course (or willingness to undertake)

Awareness of current developments in primary and community care, in particular with older people

Specialist practitioner (District Nursing) Degree or equivalent certificate/diploma

Desirable

Non-Medical Prescriber V300

Nurse Formulary prescriber V100

Experience

Essential: Ability to organise and deliver high standards of evidence-based clinical nursing care; assess, monitor, plan and evaluate care; good organisational skills; liaise with Primary Care teams; holistic initial assessments.

Desirable: Experience managing a team; working with older people including chronic disease management; ability to undertake clinical audit and produce reports.

Knowledge and skills

Understanding of complex needs and long-term condition management; safeguarding knowledge; IT and clinical systems (e.g., EMIS); knowledge of community nursing practice and current legislation; information governance.

Desirable: HR knowledge for line management; current professional issues in nursing.

Other requirementsDisclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires submission for DBS check.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require UK Skilled Worker sponsorship are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. See UK Visas and Immigration guidance for details.

Employer detailsEast London NHS Foundation Trust

Tower Hamlets Community Health Team

Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Road

London, E1 1FR

Employer website: https://www.elft.nhs.uk/

Additional informationDate posted: 05 September 2025 | Working pattern: Full-time | Contract: Permanent | Salary: £46,419 to £55,046 per annum inc ..... full job details .....