Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse (DNSPQ)
Go back Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
The closing date is 29 September 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community nurse to join our Cambridge North Villages 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 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.
Main duties of the job
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, recent 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
About us
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.
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
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
To work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi-professional team, neighbourhood teams
To be responsible for 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 to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of the multidisciplinary team
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 ensure 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 clinical lead and allocate or signpost appropriately
To provide a high standard of nursing intervention within a patient's own home; this includes 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
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 things
Demonstrate application of clinical governance and experience of clinical supervision
Experience in delivering training
Skills & Abilities
The ability to respond to changing situations
Ability to develop effective working relationships
Ability to exercise initiative
Ability to prioritise and manage workload to meet the needs of the service
Ability to innovate
Extensive understanding of clinical supervision
Demonstrate an understanding of national government initiatives in health and social care and how these impact on local services
Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others
Physical requirements
Travel around work base locality
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.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
£38,682 to £46,580 a yearPer annum Pro rata
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