Role Overview
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.
Responsibilities
- Work as an autonomous practitioner with the integrated multi‑professional team and neighbourhood teams.
- Be responsible for own caseload and undertake assessment of complex patients with multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills.
- Be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines, with support from the multidisciplinary team.
- 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.
- Supervise junior staff and students, overseeing patient intervention and ensuring a high standard of care and staff achievement of set competencies.
- Be accountable for the delegation of caseload.
- Prioritise all referrals according to the 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 order equipment.
- Provide support, guidance and leadership to a team of nurses and non‑registered team members.
Requirements
- Full UK driving licence required and use of your own vehicle; public transport is not acceptable.
- Experience working within a community nursing team or a similar role.
- Continual professional development in community nursing evidenced by completion or a plan for completion of a postgraduate community‑related qualification.
- Ability to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines.
*DVLA have a number ofreciprocalarrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website.
About CPFT
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.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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.
Closing date
This advert closes on Monday 6 Apr 2026.
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