Integrated District Nursing Sister


Location
Luton, England
Salary
£39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro-rata
Profession
Nurse (community and district)
Grade
Band 6
Deadline
23 Oct 2026
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
09 Oct 2026
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Job requirements

Essential

25 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • Experience

    Significant post registration experience including community experience

  • Experience

    Understanding of staff and resource management

  • Experience

    Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary Primary Health Care Team.

  • Experience

    Awareness of implications of DOH directives

  • Experience

    Ability to work within a skill mixed team, working within quality standards.

  • Experience

    Able to demonstrate a knowledge of clinical / governance and audit

  • Experience

    Demonstrate an understanding of research and its impact on clinical practice.

  • Experience

    Knowledge of Safeguarding Children/Vulnerable Adults and procedure for reporting

  • Experience

    Evidence of involvement in project development work or health promotion group work

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Evidence of involvement in project development work or health promotion group work

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Ability to lead a team and to work as an autonomous practitioner.

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Ability to work under pressure

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Ability to work across organisational boundaries

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Systematic approach to work and Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Encourages others to express themselves openly

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Shows respect for others’ feelings, views and circumstances

  • Knowledge and Skills

    In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms others down.

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, can recognise when to use them and does so

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Listens to personal comments without becoming defensive

  • Qualifications & Training

    Educated to degree level or equivalent e.g. Community Specialist practitioner /PgDip

  • Qualifications & Training

    Independent Nurse Prescribing or willingness to undertake

  • Qualifications & Training

    Evidence of CPD

  • Qualifications & Training

    MSPP or equivalent

Desirable

3 listed

Additional qualities the employer would prefer.

  • Experience

    Experience of working within a high ethnic population

  • Experience

    DN/ Community experience

  • Qualifications & Training

    Post Graduate study in relevant area

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Integrated District Nursing Service.

Are you an experienced and compassionate nurse ready to take the next step in your career?

We are looking for an Integrated District Nursing Sister looking for a new challenge.

Keen to work with motivated caring staff.

If you are an experienced, dynamic enthusiastic Nurse and are able to utilise sound clinical decision making to provide evidence based treatment and care planning in response to clinical assessment, we would like to hear from you.

In Luton we are looking for a dynamic, motivated Band 6 Nurse to caseload manage within an integrated team with a strong ethos of quality care provision.

This role will give you the opportunity to assist with the development of Integrated Community Nursing within Luton.

This role requires you to hold a UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle.

Our service works from 8am – 6pm, 7 days a week on a rota basis.

"(Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 16/10/2026)"

Main duties of the job

To support the provision of Community Nursing care within the Integrated Community Nursing Team, providing scheduled and unscheduled care to the house bound population of Luton.

To manage a defined caseload of patients

To prevent avoidable hospital admissions by providing a holistic assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care packages to meet the individual needs of the patient in accordance with Trust guidelines.

To provide clinical leadership within the Community Nursing Service

To organise and coordinate the overall care to meet clients’ care needs, which may be complex involving other professionals and agencies in an integrated and co-ordinated way.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

'Please see JD and PS for detailed responsibilities'.

Management and leadership responsibility for a team of nurses.

To contribute to the development and implementation of policies as required.

To be accountable and responsible for the management of work priorities for self and team members.

To take a lead in the setting of standards of care amongst the team and to teach, deploy, co-ordinate and supervise the team, recognising their knowledge/skills and development potential.

To assess and implement care interventions to meet identified health needs of individuals, families and communities. Maintain associated records.

To provide clinical supervision and mentorship to pre- and post-registration nursing students.

To assess and identify any complications surrounding patient care and to act accordingly to enable the patient to remain at home where appropriate.

To assess and prioritise unscheduled requests for nursing intervention and allocation to an appropriately skilled clinician as required.

To work in partnership with other agencies to deliver strategic national and local health priorities

To refer patients to other services / agencies as appropriate

To escalate Risk appropriately

To ensure that patients are treated with care and compassion at all times.

If you have a non-medical prescribing qualification, you will be expected to practice as a prescriber as part of this role.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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This advert is for Integrated District Nursing Sister with East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust in Luton, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse (community and district) role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro-rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 23 Oct 2026.

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