Senior Community Nurse / District Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community Nurse to work within our Borderline Team.

You will be working as part of the Borderline team, which includes Community Nurses (RN), Community Nursing Clinical Leads, and Healthcare Assistants. You will link closely with colleagues outside of CPFT, including General Practitioners 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 the relevant community CPD.

We are keen to support and develop our employees through a clear career pathway and encourage promotional opportunities within the Trust.

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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 patient's own home, including 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.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & 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, Adult & Older People's mental health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, and Research & Development.

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