District Nurse / Community Nursing Sister

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT); Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for the Countywide Out of Hours Community Nursing Service to cover Cambridge, Fenland and Peterborough bases.

The 24 hours per week role includes twilight and night shifts, triaging calls and guiding a small team of nurses while keeping patient-centred care at the heart of practice. CPFT supports professional development and values equality of opportunity. All appointments are subject to probation.

Qualifications

• Must hold a District Nursing qualification or be willing to work towards it.
• Extensive community nursing experience.
• Able to work twilight and night shifts.
• Role is 24 hours per week.
• All appointments subject to probation.
• We reserve the right to close adverts early.

Responsibilities

• Work as an autonomous practitioner.
• Triaging patient calls and assessing patients with complex pathology.
• Prioritise referrals and allocate or signpost appropriately.
• Supervise junior staff and students to ensure high standards of care.
• Line management responsibilities for a small team.
• Provide holistic nursing interventions and refer to other services as needed.

Skills

District Nursing qualification

Community nursing experience

Twilight night shifts

Job description

Do you hold the District Nursing qualification or are willing to work towards it?

Do you have extensive community nursing experience?

Are you able to work twilight and night shifts?

If so, then come and work with the CPFT Countywide Out of Hours Community Nursing Service as we are currently recruiting dedicated and motivated nurses within our Cambridge, Fenland and Peterborough bases.

This role is for 24 hrs per week only.

We are an unplanned care service that operates seven days a week working twilight and night shifts. As part of the role, you will be responsible for triaging calls and managing the shift of a small team of nurses.

You will have opportunity to develop your skills and career and we will support you fully in this.

Previous applicants need not apply

Main duties of the job

• To work as an autonomous practitioner.
• To be responsible for triaging patients calls and undertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills.
• To keep the patient at the centre of care.
• To supervise junior staff and students overseeing patient intervention and ensure that a high standard of care is delivered and staff achieve set competencies
• To prioritize all referrals according to clinical lead and allocate or signpost appropriately
• To identify patient needs, agree goals and to provide appropriate holistic nursing interventions, to refer to other services and provide or order equipment
• To have line management responsibilities for a small team

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 and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including 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, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.

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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Erica Warner Job title: Clinical Operational Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01353494579

Charlene Vickery

Clinical Lead

charlene,[e-mail]

07745107439