Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse (DNSPQ)

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT); Cambridge; In loco; GBP 42.000 - 52.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Community Nurse to join the Cambridge North City team. You will work with a Multi-disciplinary team, managing your own caseload, and providing high-quality nursing care in patients’ homes.

The role requires previous community nursing experience, current UK driving licence, and willingness to travel across the county to meet service needs. You will contribute to professional development and mentor junior staff.

Competenze

• Experience in a community nursing team or similar role with documented CPD in community nursing.

Mansioni

• Work as an autonomous practitioner within an integrated multi-professional team.
• Be responsible for own caseload and assess complex patients.

Formazione

Postgraduate community health qualification

Descrizione del lavoro

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community nurse to join our Cambridge North City team.

You will be working as part of a team which includes a Community Nursing Clinical Lead, Community Nurses (RN), and Healthcare 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 worked 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 successful candidate will be supported and encouraged to develop their career within role.

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: Sam Coupland Job title: Clinical Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07749 947417

Lesley Winner

Clinical Lead

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07954 647934