Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse (DNSPQ)

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community nurse to join our Cambridge East 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 ofreciprocalarrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

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

Desirable

  • Prescriber or willing to undertake
  • Leadership qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Multidisciplinary working experience
  • Management experience
  • Relevant and proven experience post registration in a variety of things

Desirable

  • Demonstrate application of clinical governance and experience of clinical supervision
  • Experience in delivering training

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • 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

Desirable

  • Extensive understanding of clinical supervision

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

  • Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
  • Demonstrate problem solving
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Excellent documentation skills
  • Excellent time Management and prioritisation Skills.

Physical requirements

Essential

  • Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
  • 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

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

Closing Date: 12 July 2026

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