The closing date is 28 April 2026
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
Job summary
Are you a compassionate Registered Nurse (RN) seeking a new opportunity? We have a Community Staff Nurse position available within the team, based at Bridgwater Bay. Whichever base you choose the team cross-cover the whole area.
Our service covers the urban and rural areas of West Somerset, around Bridgwater. These positions are dayshifts and are usually 8am-4pm, 9am-5pm or 10am-6pm. You’ll also work one twilight shift per week (2pm-10pm) and one in four weekends which include additional unsocial hours enhanced payments. There are no night shifts. We offer flexible working solutions where possible to ensure a work-life balance and part-time hours will be considered.You’ll need to be a car driver with your own vehicle to visit patients. We offer a mileage allowance to cover the use of your car for NHS business, which includes both mileage and depreciation.If you’re a qualified RN looking for a rewarding challenge to advance your nursing career, join our friendly, and highly skilled team of nurses and support staff. We also welcome applications from newly qualified nurses, where we can offer you preceptorship to support and guide you in your new role.
Main duties of the job
As a community RN, you’ll provide care to patients in their homes, managing a range of complex health issues and collaborating with various other disciplines.You’ll also work closely with other teams, such as Hospital@Home, focused on preventing acute admission. You’ll develop a broad range of nursing skills, including IV medication administration, palliative and end-of-life care, complex wound management, catheter and continence care, diabetes management, PICC line care, medication administration, and drain tube management.You’ll need to make autonomous clinical decisions and create holistic care plans, with the support of your colleagues and Team Leaders. Comprehensive training and guidance will be provided by our two dedicated Clinical Lead nurses.
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriately registered with the Professional body as per post requirements.
- BSc Adult Nursing
- RDNA Adult Nursing
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).