Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse (DNSPQ)

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community nurse to join our Cambridge North City 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 need to have worked within a community nursing team or similar role – with community related continual professional development evidenced with completion or plan for completion of post graduate community related qualification.

The successful candidate will be supported and encouraged to develop their career within role.

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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.

• 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 patients own home, this includes 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

*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

Working for our organisation

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 fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including 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, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects for your own and delegated work.
• To work within codes of practice and professional guidelines.
• To undertake holistic assessment (including those with complex presentations and multi pathologies) making use of clinical reasoning skills.
• To use evidence-based practice, to ensure clinical care is effective and appropriate.
• To promote independence and wherever possible to avoid hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure those patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting.
• Organise and manage own time, delegating work appropriately.
• Contribute to risk assessments and health and safety assessments and including immediately reporting any changes/newly identified risks.
• To demonstrate the importance of gaining patient and carer consent in all interventions.
• To contribute to and work towards the service/organisational aims and objectives of the Team and the new model of care.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children and young people’s mental health services;
• Children’s community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.