Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse (DNSPQ)

NHS; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Community Nurse to join their North Villages Nursing Team. This role involves working closely with GPs and the multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality nursing care at home and manage complex patient cases. Candidates should have relevant experience in community nursing, hold an RGN Level 1 degree, and demonstrate ongoing professional development. A full UK driving license is necessary for independent travel to patient locations.

Qualifications

• Experience in community nursing.
• Evidence of professional development.
• Mentorship qualification or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Work as an autonomous practitioner within a multi-professional team.
• Manage own caseload and assess complex patients.
• Deliver patient-centered care and ensure participation in decision making.

Skills

Clinical reasoning skills

Mentorship

Multidisciplinary working

Training delivery

Education

RGN Level 1 degree

Ongoing professional development

Prescriber willing to undertake qualification

Job description

Overview

Go back Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse (DNSPQ)

The closing date is 29 September 2025

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

Main duties of the job

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

*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

About us

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 a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include 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, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

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

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• To work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi-professional team, neighbourhood teams
• To be responsible for own caseload and undertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills
• To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of the multidisciplinary team
• To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making
• Provide support and education to peers, new staff, non-registered staff and students
• 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 be accountable for a delegated caseload
• To prioritise all referrals according to clinical lead and allocate or signpost appropriately
• To provide a high standard of nursing intervention within a patient\'s own home this includes lone working with access to Specialist and Advanced Practitioners when required
• To identify patient needs, agree goals and provide appropriate holistic nursing interventions, to refer to other services and provide or order equipment

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• RGN Level 1 educated to degree level
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Mentorship qualification or equivalent.
• Prescriber or willing to undertake

Experience

• Multidisciplinary working experience
• Relevant and proven experience post registration in a variety of things
• Demonstrate application of clinical governance and experience of clinical supervision
• Experience in delivering training

Skills & Abilities

• The ability to respond to changing situations
• Ability to develop effective working relationships
• Ability to exercise initiative
• Ability to prioritise and manage workload to meet the needs of the service
• Ability to innovate
• Extensive understanding of clinical supervision
• Demonstrate an understanding of national government initiatives in health and social care and how these impact on local services
• Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
• Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others

Physical requirements

• Travel around work base locality
• Manoeuvre patients using safe techniques in accordance with care plan

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.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearPer annum Pro rata