Community Registered Nurse
Company: Livewell Southwest
Job ID: B9832-2026-NM-10299
Closing date: 13 November 2026
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year pa, pro-rata
Band: Band 5
Contract: Fixed term, 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Job summary
Up to 37.5 hrs per week available.

As an NHS provider, we are at the forefront of Community Nursing. We invite you to discuss our career opportunities. Please call Vicky Hambly on 07717530341

Our core hours are 0800-17:30 and are open to discuss any working pattern within these hours, to enable you to get the balance of home and work life that suits.

The role requires positivity and excellent communication, leadership and caseload management abilities. A need to demonstrate integrity and initiative, sound clinical knowledge with evidenced based practice and the ability to support the team, approaching your work in a co-ordinated way.

We work integrated with primary care, adult social care, therapists, urgent and intermediate care services alongside our specialist services informing our ageing well MDTs which facilitates shaping our future to deliver great quality care for housebound individuals.

We strive to improve health outcomes and patient experience. This role supports people in their own home and care homes with our Care Home Service. Through expert advice and clinical support and treatment, promoting the optimum quality of life. Whilst providing an effective and efficient service delivery, utilising health promotion, wound, medication and continence management. Taking an active role with TEP, ACP with EOL Patients.

Ability to frequently travel independently and in a timely manner, between Livewell Southwest sites and community locations, including areas not served by public transport, is essential.

Main duties of the job
Community Registered Nurse - your role is vital in terms of coordinating people's care through holistic evidence-based best practice in accordance with National and Organisational approved policies and procedures.

You will be an autonomous practitioner and role model. Responsible for assessing, triaging, planning, implementation and evaluation of care, supporting the Community Sister/Charge Nurse in their absence.

Manage sensitive issues and overcome obstacles in communication.

Required to undertake a robust induction, a mentor will be allocated to support your learning and development.

We offer training with required competencies for you to build on your knowledge, experience, and skills. You will be expected to undertake continued learning with accessibility to accredited courses.

Required to be competent, diagnose and investigate. Have sound knowledge and judgement providing evidence-based wound management and pressure ulcer prevention. Continence management, palliative, and end of life care.

Ability to frequently travel independently and in a timely manner between Livewell Southwest sites and community locations including areas not served by public transport.

This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.

This job advertisement may close earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted.

LW staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7-day service.

About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values: kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.

We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.

We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.

Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.

Key responsibilities

• Responsibility for people management, including delegating nursing care, supervising colleagues and students, and participating in recruitment.
• Responsibility for financial and physical resources, including equipment monitoring and stock levels.
• Responsibility for administration, including maintaining accurate confidential patient records, triage, and time management.
• Responsibility for people who use our services, including holistic assessment, planning and evaluation of care in patients' own homes, risk assessments, and health promotion.
• Responsibility for implementation of policy and service developments, including incident reporting, clinical governance and research.
• Communication and relationships with primary care, secondary care, mental health, voluntary and statutory organisations, SWAST, 111, users and carers.
• Physical demands, including frequent independent travel between sites and community locations and transporting bags and equipment on each visit.

Person specification
Essential experience:

• Experience of a variety of healthcare settings.
• Knowledge of recent developments within health and social care.
• Keeps up to date with evidence-based practice and research related to nursing and health care in the community.
• Ability to operate community equipment.
• Ability to identify and pass on urgent client information to the senior staff.

Essential qualifications:

• 1st Level Nurse
• Registration (degree or diploma)
• NMC Registration
• Willingness to undertake further education around management of long-term conditions.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Essential skills:

• Ability to use initiative and work autonomously.
• Ability to decision make and problem solve.
• Good time management and delegation skills.
• Ability to assess patients and make appropriate referrals and recommendations using evidence-based practice.
• Strong analytical and judgement skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers and the public.
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• Effective communication and interactive skills including oral, written and IT.

Desirable:

• Previous community nursing experience.
• Advanced knowledge in Tissue Viability, Bladder and Bowel, End of Life, IV drug administration and diagnostic skills.
• Experience of managing a caseload.

Employer details
Livewell Southwest, 200 Mount Gould Road, Mount Gould, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 7PY, United Kingdom

For questions about the job, contact:
Healthcare Manager: Natasha Head, natasha.head@nhs.net, 07514519768