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Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust – Community Staff Nurse

The closing date is 29 September 2025

This is an exciting time for Calderdale's district nursing teams as we have established 5 community hubs each with its own unique and diverse needs.

We are seeking an enthusiastic staff member with excellent communication skills, who is highly motivated and adaptable in a fast paced and ever-changing environment.

The vacancy is for Evening shifts covering the period Monday to Sunday working within the Out of Hours district nursing team; based at Dean Clough Mill, Halifax

We would welcome any informal visit to see our team in action and meet the team.

We look forward to you joining us, good luck with your application!

Are you passionate about providing the best possible care, empowering patients and delivering complex care in the community?

Are you a newly qualified, final year student or qualified staff nurse seeking a new challenge?

If so, we would love to meet you!

Community nursing is an exciting and rewarding challenge where you will gain experience in a vast range of clinical skills to help you along your journey as a nurse. You will be supported by an expert team where training and development opportunities are actively encouraged in order to meet the clinical needs of the role. Support and development will be individualised depending on your current skills and experience.

• Be able to create a professional nursing culture which is open to change, new ideas, concepts, and innovation whilst reflecting organisational strategy and values
• To deliver direct and indirect patient care, focusing on local needs and priorities addressing the prevention agenda, care centred on what matters to the person, via personalised care and support planning
• To participate in the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care. Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust provide a 24 hour district nursing service and, as such, an element of flexible working is expected to maintain safe, effective, responsive services.
• Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust acknowledge and support the NMC Code of Professional Conduct (NMC 2002). This code must underpin the practice of community nurses within the PCR at all times and has informed the development of the competencies outlined below

• NMC Registered Nurse in relevant field of practice
• Practice Assessor/Practice Supervisor qualification or willingness to complete
• Additional post-registration qualification relevant to field of practice
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Role Specific Training relevant to specialty of the post
• Teaching Qualification
• Leadership Qualification

• Knowledge and skill to plan, deliver, and evaluate high quality, evidence-based nursing care to a group of patients within the speciality of the post
• Experience of working with patients, and those that matter to them, from a range of diverse cultures and backgrounds
• Experience of working as part of a team, with the ability to prioritise own workload
• Knowledge and skill in infection prevention and control principles and procedures
• Knowledge and skill in safeguarding principles and procedures
• IT literacy and ability to use NHS systems
• Competence in speciality or role specific extended skills required of the post or willingness to undertake necessary training
• Clinical experience in the specialty of the post
• Skills in research and audit methodology and application of findings to practice
• Evidence of introducing change and innovation into nursing practice

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to adapt to meet the requirements of patients, their families/carers, and professional colleagues.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Flexibility to meet the needs of the service
• Human Factors awareness

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.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

£31,049 to £37,796 a year, per annum, pro rata