Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Community Nurse Assessor
The closing date is 25 November 2026

Are you a passionate and motivated Registered Nurse looking to make a real difference to patient outcomes? This is an exciting opportunity to join our new Home First service that launched on 1 September, supporting patients to return home safely from hospital and avoid unnecessary admissions.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will deliver timely, holistic assessments and develop personalised care plans for patients with complex health needs. You will play a key role in supporting hospital discharge, promoting independence, and ensuring patients receive the right care, at the right time, in the right place.

This is a rewarding role for a nurse who enjoys autonomous practice, collaborative working, and delivering high-quality, person-centred care within patients' own homes and communities.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of an innovative new Home First service launched in September.
• Help shape a developing service focused on improving patient outcomes and experiences.
• Work within a supportive multidisciplinary team committed to delivering outstanding community care.
• Make a tangible impact on reducing hospital stays and helping people live independently at home.

Main duties of the job

• Complete holistic nursing assessments and develop personalised care plans for patients discharged through Home First and other discharge-to-assess pathways.
• Support safe and timely hospital discharges and help prevent avoidable hospital admissions.
• Deliver evidence-based nursing care, treatment, and intervention for patients with complex, acute, sub-acute, and long-term conditions.
• Identify ongoing nursing needs and coordinate seamless handover to Community Nursing Teams where required.
• Work collaboratively with therapists, reablement staff, GPs, social care teams, and other system partners across One Gloucestershire.
• Promote independence through health coaching, education, goal-setting, and personalised care approaches.
• Support medicines management and clinical decision-making to optimise patient outcomes.
• Provide advice and support to patients, carers, and families to maximise health, wellbeing, and self-management.
• Contribute to service improvement, quality assurance, audit activity, and patient safety initiatives.
• Support the development of colleagues and students through supervision, coaching, and leadership within the team.
• Manage and prioritise a dynamic caseload, demonstrating excellent clinical judgement and organisational skills.

About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Details
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, 18.75 hours per week
Reference number: 327-26-854-A
Job location: Stroud ICT, Trinity Road, Stroud, GL52HY

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (Adult / RGN) - Essential
• Current NMC registration - Essential
• Individual modules at degree or masters level, eg. PACR - Essential
• Holds recognised teaching/ mentoring qualification - Essential

Experience

• Experience of working without direct supervision - Essential
• Consolidated experience of community nursing practice - Essential
• Experience of managing long term conditions and case management of complex patients - Essential
• Experience of delivering extended role clinical interventions - Essential
• Evidence of post-registration education and training - Essential

Knowledge and skills

• Ability to work on own initiative, assess patients competently and link with colleagues in the wider MDT to tailor plans of care - Essential
• Ability to effectively manage the workload, prioritise and delegate to manage capacity and demand - Essential
• Effective written and oral communication skills - Essential
• Knowledge of safeguarding procedures - Essential
• An understanding of national policy in relation to community nursing - Desirable
• Up to date clinical knowledge including risk assessment - Desirable
• Knowledge of health coaching techniques to engage patient participation and outcome - Desirable

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Stroud ICT, Trinity Road, Stroud, GL52HY, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/

Employer contact details
Community Manager: Melanie Richmond, melanie.richmond2@nhs.net, 07989350211

This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Governments UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas. To support compliance with UK immigration requirements, all applicants who require a visa to work in the UK must disclose their visa history in full. This includes current and previous sponsors, dates of sponsorship, visa category, and any changes of employment. If you are on a Graduate or Dependant Visa, please disclose the expiry date on your application. Incomplete information may mean we are unable to consider your application.