Job summary
The Community Charge Nurse provides clinical and operational leadership within the community nursing team, supporting the Integrated Senior Clinical Lead (Band 7) to deliver safe, effective, and patient-centred care. The post holder is responsible for day-to-day team leadership, promoting a positive and well-led culture, and supporting service development and quality improvement.

Working collaboratively with GPs, Practice Nurses, Social Care professionals, and the wider multidisciplinary team, the Community Sister will coordinate and facilitate the management of patients with complex health needs, particularly those at risk of hospital admission. The role focuses on delivering proactive, holistic care, promoting independence, self-management, and patient choice.

The post holder will utilise advanced clinical assessment and decision-making skills across the community caseload and Single Point of Access, ensuring patients receive timely intervention, coordinated care, and access to the most appropriate services. The Community Sister will also provide clinical expertise, guidance, and support to colleagues across the wider team.

Main duties of the job

• Providing clinical and operational leadership within the community nursing team.
• Managing and coordinating a caseload of patients with complex health needs.
• Undertaking holistic assessments, care planning, implementation, and evaluation of care.
• Supporting patients to remain independent and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
• Working closely with GPs, Social Care, therapists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure coordinated care.
• Providing clinical advice, supervision, and support to junior staff and students.
• Monitoring patient safety, risk management, safeguarding, and clinical quality standards.
• Participating in the Single Point of Access (SPA) and referral triage processes where applicable.
• Promoting health education, self-management, and patient choice.
• Supporting service development, quality improvement initiatives, and achievement of organisational objectives.
• Maintaining accurate clinical records and ensuring compliance with professional and organisational policies.
• Deputising for the Band 7 Integrated Senior Clinical Lead when required.

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Nurse (Adult) with current NMC registration
• Degree in Nursing or equivalent experience
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
• Mentorship/Practice Supervisor qualification (or willingness to undertake)
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes (if required by the service)

Desirable

• Specialist Practitioner Qualification (SPQ) in District Nursing (Or willing to work toward)
• Leadership or management qualification (Or willing to work toward)
• Non-Medical Prescribing qualification (V300) (Or willing to work toward)
• Advanced clinical assessment training (Or willing to work toward)
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Quality improvement or service development training

Experience
Essential

• Significant post-registration nursing experience
• Experience managing complex patient caseloads
• Experience of multidisciplinary working
• Experience of supervising and supporting staff
• Experience of risk assessment and safeguarding

Desirable

• Community nursing experience
• Experience in case management of patients with long-term conditions
• Experience of leading service improvement initiatives
• Experience of working within integrated health and social care teams

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).