Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT); Cambridge; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a District Nurse to join the St Neots/A1 Community Nursing Team. You will work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality home care and reduce hospital admissions.

Travel across the county will be required, with a full UK driving license and access to a vehicle. The role emphasizes leadership, education of peers and new staff, and accountability for assessment, planning and evaluation of care with

Qualifications

• Must hold District Nurse Specialist Qualification or have led a community nursing team.
• Postgraduate community-related development plans or qualifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multidisciplinary team.
• Manage own caseload and assess complex patients.
• Provide nursing interventions in patients' homes and supervise junior staff.

Skills

Autonomy

Leadership

Home care

Team collaboration

Education

District Nurse Specialist Qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a District Nurse to work within our St Neots/A1 Community Nursing Team.

You will be working as part of a team which includes Community Nurses (RN), Community Nursing Clinical Lead and Health Care Assistants. You will link closely with colleagues outside of CPFT including GPs and other members of the multidisciplinary team to support excellent nursing care at home, reducing the necessity for acute hospital admission.

The successful candidate will need to have a District Nurse Specialist Qualification, or have worked in a leadership role within a community nursing team or similar role – with community related continual professional development evidenced with completion or plan for completion of post graduate community related qualification.

The post holder will be supported and be committed to further development within role either with modular post graduate development or completion of the Specialist Practitioner DN Qualification.

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 use public 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.

• To work as an autonomous practitioner with the integrated multi professional team
• To be responsible for own caseload and undertake assessment of complex patients
• To be accountable for assessing interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines
• To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making
• Provide support and education of peers, new staff, non registered staff, and students
• To supervise junior colleagues
• Accountable for the delegation of caseload
• To provide high standards of nursing intervention within a patients own home, this includes lone working , with access to specialist and advanced practitioners when required
• To provide support, guidance and leadership to a team of nurses and non registered team members
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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: Celia Ellis Job title: ANM Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07749 725362