What is community nursing?

Community nursing, or district nursing in East Surrey is provided by First Community Health and Care, the provider of NHS community services in the local area. District nurses play a crucial role in local healthcare, visiting people in their own homes or in residential care homes, providing increasingly complex care for patients and supporting family members.

Community nurses play a key role locally to keep hospital admissions and readmissions to a minimum, ensuring that patients can return home as soon as possible.

The Evening and Night Nursing Team

An important part of the community nursing service that First Community provides is the Evening and Night Nursing Team. The team provide visits to the patient’s home in the evening and nights.

These visits are either:

• For routine care that patients may need if they are housebound, such as managing diabetes which may require a routine visit at a regular time.
• For patients who require nursing care that cannot wait until the morning
• Prevention of hospital admission

The work includes:

• Caring for people at the end of their lives ensuring they can remain in their own home if this is their choice. This might involve ensuring the patient has the right drugs so they are free of pain, that their last months, weeks or days are as comfortable as possible and that the family are supported before, during and after a loved one’s death
• Catheter and continence care
• Medication management
• Intravenous antibiotics
• Chemotherapy disconnection
• Minor wound care
• Post-operative care
• Enteral feeding
• Health promotion and education to encourage patients to be self-caring

Be part of the team

We believe that our skilled people and their ideas are very important.

As an employee-owned social enterprise, the foundation of our organisation is built so that our people can share in ownership and decision making, for delivering great care. Our staff continue to go the extra mile, connecting with others in healthcare and beyond to support people in our community, ensuring that our patients and service users continue to remain at the heart of what we do.

Every member of staff is invited to become a shareholder. This is intended as a symbol of commitment to patient services and gives staff a real opportunity to propose innovations and ideas.

Staff Benefits

• Flexible retirement pension plans with the Pensions Trust and NHS Pension Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes, including cars
• Training and professional development
• Staff and staffside engagement with Unions and our Council of Governors

The team are currently recruiting qualified nurses who are new, currently nursing or returning to community nursing. There are two shifts times from 18.00 – 23.00 and 22.30 – 06.30. Teams cover Redhill, Reigate, Horley and Tandridge.

If you are interested in a temporary or permanent position please contact: Glenda Vella Team Leader by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.