An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community nurse to join our Isle of Ely and Cambridge Community Nursing Teams. We are looking for someone who can provide consistent Triage cover (multiple times a week) and support current caseload holders.
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 a similar role – with community related continual professional development evidenced with completion or plan for completion of a post graduate community related qualification.
The successful candidate will be supported and encouraged to develop their career within the role.
Key Responsibilities
- To work as an autonomous practitioner within the team.
- To be responsible for your own caseload and undertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills.
- To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment for patients within professional guidelines, with the support of the multidisciplinary team.
- To regularly contribute to the triage and assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills.
- To 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.
- To supervise junior staff and students, overseeing patient intervention and ensuring that a high standard of care is delivered, and staff achieve set competencies.
- To be accountable for a delegated caseload.
- To prioritise all referrals according to the clinical lead and allocate or signpost appropriately.
- To 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.
- To identify patient needs, agree goals and to provide appropriate holistic nursing interventions, to refer to other services and provide or order equipment.
Additional Responsibilities
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of your own and delegated work.
- To work within codes of practice and professional guidelines.
- To undertake holistic assessment (including those with complex presentations and multiple pathologies) making use of clinical reasoning skills.
- To use evidence‑based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective and appropriate.
- To promote independence and where possible avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure patients receive the appropriate care in the most suitable setting.
- To organise and manage your own time, delegating work appropriately.
- To contribute to risk assessments and health and safety assessments and including.
- To immediately report any changes or newly identified risks.
- To demonstrate the importance of gaining patient and carer consent in all interventions.
- To effectively communicate verbally with patients, carers and colleagues using tact and persuasive skills. This may involve using skills where patients have difficulties in communication, e.g. hearing loss, diminished sight, depression, speech problems, cognitive impairment, behavioural problems and pain.
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. Public transport is not acceptable for this role as it will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
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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 well‑being 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.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high‑calibre candidates who share our vision and values. 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.
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.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk.
This advert closes on Monday 6 Apr 2026.
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