Role Overview
As a Community Sister/Charge Nurse, you will have an enhanced scope of practice while championing the highest quality of nursing care within Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Occupational Therapy teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct direct patient assessment and treatment, with Team Leads handling most team organisation and management.
- Complete holistic home‑based assessments, identify therapy needs and goals, and case‑manage these patients to gain experience toward a future Community Matron role.
- Perform in‑reach duties: based at hospital sites on a rota basis (typically one month at a time) to proactively identify patients eligible for discharge home with the team’s support.
- Support clinical delivery of complex nursing to broader team caseloads and respond to 2‑hour urgent care referrals on behalf of the Community Nursing Teams.
- Provide high‑quality clinical management for patients with complex care needs at risk of deteriorating health, preventing hospital admission.
- Negotiate and support patient discharge from inpatient settings, ensuring safe discharge pathways and appropriate referrals.
- Utilise high‑level patient‑centred assessment skills to deliver an excellent community service, including thorough nursing and holistic assessments and timely onward referrals.
- Deliver Palliative Care: symptom management and assessment, care for patients and families/carers, following national guidance on end‑of‑life care.
- Lead Public Health initiatives: implement health protection and promotion programmes that improve and reduce inequalities.
- Plan and execute discharge education for patients, relatives, and carers, engaging peers and colleagues to ensure safe transitions and identify appropriate patients for transfer from inpatient to community care.
- Manage caseloads, ensuring appropriate allocation and delegation of clinical tasks within the team to deliver safe, high‑quality care.
Benefits and Development
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust offers CPD opportunities, formal qualifications (e.g., DN), vocational training, and a wide range of professional, management, leadership, and clinical skills training. Our inclusive, disability‑confident environment is recognised with the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme.
Flexible Working
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis. Flexibility may involve various working patterns and hours – we work to meet staff and service needs.
Inclusion Statement
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability‑confident employer.
Advert Closing Date
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Apr 2026.
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