Integrated District Nursing Sister

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge); Luton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge) is seeking an Integrated District Nursing Sister to lead integrated community care within the district nursing service in Cambridge. The role emphasizes sound clinical decision making, evidence-based care planning, and supervising a team of district nurses.

The post requires a UK driving licence and access to a vehicle; interviews will be held face to face.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent (e.g. Community Specialist Practitioner / PgDip).
• Independent Nurse Prescribing or willingness to undertake.
• Evidence of CPD (Continuing Professional Development).
• MSPP or equivalent; Postgraduate study in relevant area.

Responsibilities

• Support Community Nursing care within Integrated Community Nursing Team.
• Manage a defined caseload of patients.
• Provide holistic assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care.
• Provide clinical leadership within the Community Nursing Service.
• Organise and coordinate care across agencies to meet client needs.

Skills

Staff management

Clinical leadership

Autonomous practitioner

Communication under pressure

Team collaboration

Education

Community Specialist Practitioner/PgDip

Independent Nurse Prescribing

Postgraduate study

Job description

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge)

Integrated District Nursing Sister

The closing date is 24 November 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Integrated District Nursing Service.

Are you an experienced and compassionate nurse ready to take the next step in your career?

We are looking for an Integrated District Nursing Sister looking for a new challenge.

Keen to work with motivated caring staff.

If you are an experienced, dynamic enthusiastic Nurse and are able to utilise sound clinical decision making to provide evidence based treatment and care planning in response to clinical assessment, we would like to hear from you.

In Luton we are looking for a dynamic, motivated Band 6 Nurse to caseload manage within an integrated team with a strong ethos of quality care provision.

This role will give you the opportunity to assist with the development of Integrated Community Nursing within Luton.

This role requires you to hold a UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle.

Our service works from 8am - 6pm, 7 days a week on a rota basis.

Interviews will take place face to face.

(Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 18/11/2026)

Main duties of the job

To support the provision of Community Nursing care within the Integrated Community Nursing Team, providing scheduled and unscheduled care to the house bound population of Luton.

To manage a defined caseload of patients

To prevent avoidable hospital admissions by providing a holistic assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care packages to meet the individual needs of the patient in accordance with Trust guidelines.

To provide clinical leadership within the Community Nursing Service

To organise and coordinate the overall care to meet clients' care needs, which may be complex involving other professionals and agencies in an integrated and co-ordinated way.

About us

Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

Job responsibilities

'Please see JD and PS for detailed responsibilities'.

Management and leadership responsibility for a team of nurses.

To contribute to the development and implementation of policies as required.

To be accountable and responsible for the management of work priorities for self and team members.

To take a lead in the setting of standards of care amongst the team and to teach, deploy, co-ordinate and supervise the team, recognising their knowledge/skills and development potential.

To assess and implement care interventions to meet identified health needs of individuals, families and communities. Maintain associated records.

To provide clinical supervision and mentorship to pre- and post-registration nursing students.

To assess and identify any complications surrounding patient care and to act accordingly to enable the patient to remain at home where appropriate.

To assess and prioritise unscheduled requests for nursing intervention and allocation to an appropriately skilled clinician as required.

To work in partnership with other agencies to deliver strategic national and local health priorities

To refer patients to other services / agencies as appropriate

To ensure that patients are treated with care and compassion at all times.

If you have a non-medical prescribing qualification, you will be expected to practice as a prescriber as part of this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

• Educated to degree level or equivalent e.g. Community Specialist practitioner /PgDip
• Independent Nurse Prescribing or willingness to undertake
• Evidence of CPD
• MSPP or equivalent
• Post Graduate study in relevant area

Experience

• Significant post registration experience including community experience
• Understanding of staff and resource management
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary Primary Health Care Team.
• Awareness of implications of DOH directives
• Ability to work within a skill mixed team, working within quality standards.
• Able to demonstrate a knowledge of clinical / governance and audit
• Demonstrate an understanding of research and its impact on clinical practice.
• Knowledge of Safeguarding Children/Vulnerable Adults and procedure for reporting
• Evidence of involvement in project development work or health promotion group work
• Experience of working within a high ethnic population
• DN/ Community experience

Knowledge and Skills

• Evidence of involvement in project development work or health promotion group work
• Ability to lead a team and to work as an autonomous practitioner.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work across organisational boundaries
• Systematic approach to work and Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others
• Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings
• Encourages others to express themselves openly
• Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems
• Shows respect for others' feelings, views and circumstances
• In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms others down.
• Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, can recognise when to use them and does so
• Listens to personal comments without becoming defensive

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.

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge)

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearper annum, pro-rata