Job Description
Job Overview
Are you a motivated Registered Nurse looking for flexibility, variety, and the opportunity to be effective in your local community?
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is seeking Bank Band 5 Community Nurses to join services across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland. We welcome applications from Registered General Nurses (RGN) and Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMN) who have completed their preceptorship and are keen to develop their skills in a supportive community setting.
As a Bank Community Nurse, you will assess, plan, deliver and evaluate patient-centred care in patients' homes and community settings. Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, you will support people with a range of physical and mental health needs, promoting independence, recovery, and wellbeing through high-quality care.
Why Join Our Bank?
Our Bank offers true flexibility, allowing you to work around your commitments while gaining experience across a variety of community services.
Benefits include: • Flexible working to suit your availability.
• Experience across diverse community services.
• Opportunities to develop clinical skills and knowledge.
• Access to learning and development.
• Supportive and experienced teams.
• A Trust committed to Compassion, Respect, Integrity, and Trust.
If you are enthusiastic about delivering outstanding care and want the freedom to choose when you work, we would love to hear from you.
Interviews: Saturday 19 September
Contact:
Jan Skoczylas
jan.skoczylas@nhs.net
Job Description Summary (Main Duties and Responsibilities)
We are seeking compassionate, adaptable nurses who are committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care in community settings.
Essential Requirements
- Current NMC registration as a Registered General Nurse (RGN) or Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN).
- Successful completion of an NMC preceptorship programme.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Access to a vehicle insured for business use.
- Excellent communication and people skills.
- Ability to work independently and within multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong assessment, care planning and clinical decision-making skills.
- Ability to prioritise workload and respond to changing patient needs.
- Commitment to delivering safe, evidence-based care.
- Understanding of safeguarding, confidentiality, equality, and diversity.
- Flexible approach to working patterns and service needs.
Desirable
- Experience in community nursing, mental health community services or integrated teams.
- Experience of lone working and caseload management.
If you are looking for flexibility, variety, and the opportunity to be effective in local communities, we would love to hear from you. Join our Bank and choose shifts that fit your lifestyle while helping deliver exceptional care where it matters most.
We may close the advert early, if we receive enough applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health, and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over one hundred settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over one million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs, the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.