Integrated District Nursing Sister

East Of England Community Health And Care Nhs Trust; Luton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust in Cambridge is seeking an Integrated District Nursing Sister to join the Integrated District Nursing Service in Luton. The role is Band 6 and focuses on caseload management within an integrated team dedicated to high-quality community care.

The successful candidate will develop Integrated Community Nursing in Luton, hold a UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle. Service operates 8am–6pm, 7 days a week on a rota.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Manage a defined caseload of patients.
• Prevent avoidable hospital admissions by holistic assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care packages.
• Provide clinical leadership within the Community Nursing Service.
• Organise and coordinate the overall care to meet clients' care needs, possibly complex and involving other professionals and agencies.

Skills

Autonomous practice

Nurse prescribing

CPD

Leadership

Education

Degree level or equivalent e.g. Community Specialist Practitioner / PgDip

Tools

UK Driving Licence

Job description

Integrated District Nursing Sister

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

Job summary

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.

\"(Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 16/10/2026)\"

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.

All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.

Please be aware that East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust will never ask applicants to pay fees at any stage of the recruitment process, including job applications, sponsorship arrangements, or employment offers. All recruitment communications and job applications should only be made through our official careers website and published contact details.

We encourage you to report the matter to your local police or relevant law enforcement agency. Any concerns relating to potential recruitment fraud should also be reported to our Local Counter Fraud Specialist (LCFS) as soon as possible.

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 elevate Risk appropriately


• 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

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Post Graduate study in relevant area

Experience

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Experience of working within a high ethnic population


• DN/ Community experience

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• 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

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).