Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse (DNSPQ)
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
The closing date is 12 July 2026
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 have worked within a community nursing team or similar role, with community related continual professional development evidenced with completion or plan for completion of postgraduate community related qualification. The successful candidate will be supported and encouraged to develop their career within the role.
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 ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Main duties of the job
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
To travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are required. Public transport is not suitable for this role.
* DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website.
Job responsibilities
- Work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi‑professional team, neighbourhood teams
- Be responsible for own caseload and undertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills
- Accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of the multidisciplinary team
- 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
- Supervise junior staff and students overseeing patient intervention and ensure that a high standard of care is delivered and staff achieve set competencies
- Accountable for a delegated caseload
- Prioritise all referrals according to clinical lead and allocate or signpost appropriately
- Provide a high standard of nursing intervention within a patient’s own home, including lone working with access to Specialist and Advanced Practitioners when required
- Identify patient needs, agree goals and provide appropriate holistic nursing interventions, 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 settings
- Demonstrate application of clinical governance and experience of clinical supervision
- Experience in delivering training
Skills & Abilities
- Ability to respond to changing situations
- Develop effective working relationships
- Exercise initiative
- Prioritise and manage workload to meet the needs of the service
- Innovate
- Extensive understanding of clinical supervision
- Work flexibly as part of a team
- Problem solving
- Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
Physical requirements
- Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle are 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.
Compensation
£39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata
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