District Nurse / Community Nursing Sister: Sponsorship Available

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Do you hold the District Nursing qualification or are willing to work towards it?

Do you have extensive community nursing experience?

Are you able to work twilight and night shifts?

If so, then come and work with the CPFT Countywide Out of Hours Community Nursing Service as we are currently recruiting dedicated and motivated nurses within our Cambridge, Fenland and Peterborough bases.

This role is for 24 hrs per week only.

We are an unplanned care service that operates seven days a week working twilight and night shifts. As part of the role, you will be responsible for triaging calls and managing the shift of a small team of nurses.

You will have opportunity to develop your skills and career and we will support you fully in this.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

  • To work as an autonomous practitioner.
  • To be responsible for triaging patientscalls andundertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills.
  • To keep the patient at thecentreof care.
  • To supervise junior staff and students overseeing patient intervention and ensure that a high standard of care isdeliveredand staff achieve set competencies
  • Toprioritizeall referrals according to clinical lead and allocate or signpost appropriately
  • To identify patient needs, agree goals and to provide appropriate holistic nursing interventions, to refer to other services and provide or order equipment
  • To have line management responsibilities for a small team

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

  • RGN level 1 educated to degree level.
  • Post-registration qualification relevant to district nursing (DNSPQ or equivalent: Community Nursing Degree/ comprehensive community nursing CPD)
  • Evidence of ongoing professional development
  • Practice Assessor/ Supervisor

Desirable

  • Prescriber or willing to undertake
  • Wound care qualification
  • Continence qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Multidisciplinary working experience
  • Management experience
  • Relevant and proven experience post registration in a variety of settings
  • Nursing in both acute and community settings

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

  • Ability to undertake mental capacity assessment
  • Extensive understanding of clinical supervision

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

  • 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
  • Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings.
  • Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others.

Physical Requirements

Essential

  • Ability to travel independently around the 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: 22 November 2026

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