Job overview
Bury Town Integrated Neighbourhood Team
Bury Town Integrated Neighbourhood Team has had a significant investment which has seen the development of multiple new roles within the team.
On the back of this there is an exciting opportunity to join the community Nursing Teams based in Bury Town as a Band 7 District Nurse, having a total of 45hrs per week to recruit into. Part time and full time working considered.
Working alongside our established team of two other District Nurses you will be based within an INT compromised of two Community Nurse teams, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and a range of support staff it's an exciting opportunity to join one the largest INTs in West Suffolk.
When you join our team, you will be at the front line of healthcare, delivering medical care to the patients on our caseloads in their own homes, with excellent support from an Integrated Community Team.
This post requires a specialised District Nursing degree, following your Adult Nursing qualification. NHS work experience is essential & Community Nursing experience desirable.
This rewarding job helps maintain a patient’s independence and freedom, whilst still being able to access exemplary medical care.
Main duties of the job
- To lead and manage the District Nursing Service in this Locality. To provide specialist clinical and supervisory leadership to junior staff and students within the team.
- To manage a caseload of patients with multiple and complex needs, using evidence-based practise to asses, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions, with the patient at the centre.
- To provide the highest standard of clinical care by using advanced skills and expert knowledge to holistically assess needs, instigate and provide clinical treatments using evidence-based practice.
- To lead service development of integrated services in the Locality, in partnership with peers and colleagues.
- To use new knowledge in innovative ways and take responsibility for developing and changing practice in complex and sometimes unpredictable environments.
- To support staff to feel confident and competent to move across organisational and professional boundaries.
- To monitor the quality of care provision and identify and promote areas for service development.
If you have the necessary skills, experience and qualities to help us to put patients first then we want to hear from you!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job summary:
- To lead and manage the District Nursing Service in a given To provide specialist clinical and supervisory leadership to junior staff and students within the team.
- To manage a caseload of patients with multiple and complex needs, using evidence-based practice to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions, with the patient at the centre.
- To provide the highest standard of clinical care by using advanced skills and expert knowledge to holistically assess needs, instigate and provide clinical treatments using evidence-based practice.
- To lead service development of integrated services in the Locality, in partnership with peers.
- To use new knowledge in innovative ways and take responsibility for developing and changing practice in complex and sometimes unpredictable environments.
- To support staff to feel confident and competent to move across organisational and professional
- To monitor the quality-of-care provision and identify and promote areas for service
- To build strong relationships with partner organisations, particularly for patients receiving shared care to ensure an effective flow of patient information to ensure high quality care.
Person specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- • Role model positive behaviours
- • Demonstrate the Trust values
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- • Ability to work across organisational and budgetary boundaries within an identified Locality
- • Working in integrated team and style
- • Can do approach
- • Provide and role model high standards of care
- • Work in partnership with Alliance partners to deliver seamless care to patients and develop service
- • Work within the Alliance to identify and drive service developments and improvements
- • Implementation of change to promote high quality outcomes for the locality
- • Ability to travel to rural locations to carry out post
- • Ability to self-manage and prioritise
- • Excellent communication skills (detail re complex situations)
Desirable
- • Coaching skills
- • Cannulation/IV therapy administration
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- • Experience of leading a DN team
- • Management of complex patients
- • Be responsible for management of complex cases sharing knowledge and skills with locality and community nurses to foster and grow knowledge and skills
- • Advanced clinical assessment skills o Experience of history taking and physical examination
- o Experience of working autonomously
- o Experience of working with people with long term conditions
- • Awareness and understanding of local and national priorities in relation to patients with long-term conditions
- • Awareness and understanding of local and National priorities in relation to Nursing
- • Awareness and understanding of local and National priorities in relation to integration
- • Ability to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working collaboratively and autonomously
Desirable
- • Management of a community team
- • Experience of interview and recruitment skills
- • Understanding and knowledge of the Health and Social Care Act
Education & Qualification
Essential
- • Registered Nurse Level 1
- • District Nurse Qualification
- • Non-medical prescribing qualification
- • Preparation for Mentorship qualification
- • Current NMC registration
- • Evidence of continuing professional development
- • Teaching, learning and assessing qualification
Desirable
- • District Nurse qualification at Masters Level
- • Specific Leadership qualification
- • Tissue viability or leg ulcer management training
- • Specific management qualification
- • V300 non-medical prescribing qualification
- • Teaching, learning and assessing, Level 7 or PGCE
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This advert is for District Nurse Bury Town INT with West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in Bury St Edmunds, East of England, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Nurse (community and district) role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 20 Jul 2026.
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