Community Nurse

NHS; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Nurse to provide high-quality nursing care within the community. This role offers full-time and part-time opportunities, with extensive professional development and the chance to make a significant impact in patient care. Applicants must be registered nurses or nearing qualification and possess a full UK driving licence for independent travel across the county.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse or about to qualify.
• Experience in community and primary care settings.
• Ability to travel independently and hold a full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Work as an autonomous practitioner within the community nursing team.
• Provide high standard nursing care and interventions in patients' homes.
• Accountable for assessing, planning, and implementing patient treatment.

Skills

Community experience

Primary care experience

Wound care

Commitment to high quality care

Ability to work flexibly

Assessment and care planning

Safeguarding vulnerable adults

Confidentiality

Education

Evidence of professional development

Job description

Go back Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Community Nurse

The closing date is 02 June 2025

Are you a registered nurse or about to qualify?

Do you want an exciting and interesting job with a great carer potential?

Do you aspire to make a real positive contribution to nursing in the community and working within a community nursing team?

The community nursing team across Peterborough are currently offering opportunities for full time and part time hours working within CPFT.

We provide a service 7 days a week, working closely with other community services and PCN's to provide high standard holistic care to the population of Peterborough.

You will have opportunity to develop yourself, with extensive learning and development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle.You cannot usepublic transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

As a community staff nurse, you will be working as an autonomous practitioner within the multi-disciplinary community nursing team. You will provide high standard of nursing care and interventions within the patient's own home, with support from the wider team.

The patient will be at the centre of care being provided, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making. You will be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing, and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines. Patient needs will be identified through holistic nursing.

You will have opportunity to provide support and education to peers, new staff and students.

*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website.

About us

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of ourethnic minority andLGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• To work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated community nursing team.
• To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of the multidisciplinary team
• To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuing patient and carer participation in decision making
• Provide support and education to peers, new staff non-registered staff and students
• To provide a high standard of care
• To provide a high standard of nursing intervention within a patients own home this includes lone working, with access to Specialist and Advanced Practitioners when required
• Will be expected to work as part of a 24/7 service
• To identify patient needs, agree goads and to provide appropriate holistic nursing interventions, to refer to other services and provide or order equipment

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Evidence of professional development

Experience

• Community experience
• Primary care experience and experience in wound care

Skills & Abilities

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
• Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
• Able to assess plan and implement care and formulate care plans
• Ability to safeguard and promote welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults
• Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities for others
• Has a realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development
• Understands the principle of confidentiality
• Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, can recognise when to use them and does so

Other

• Ability to travel across the county sometimes at short notice

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

£29,970 to £36,483 a yearper annum pro rata