# Integrated District Nursing Sister > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/integrated-district-nursing-sister/3ec69fa6-89c1-4035-a4fa-ce9c187c20a5 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/integrated-district-nursing-sister/3ec69fa6-89c1-4035-a4fa-ce9c187c20a5.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust - **Location:** The Poynt - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro-rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Service covers 8am - 6pm (7 days a week)) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-23T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-09T15:50:12.805Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Luton/East_England_Community_Health_Care_NHS_Trust_Cambridgeshire/Community_Health_Services/Community_Health_Services-v8327397 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8327397?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.eastofenglandcommunityhealthandcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant post registration experience including community experience - Understanding of staff and resource management - Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary Primary Health Care Team. - Awareness of implications of DOH directives - Ability to work within a skill mixed team, working within quality standards. - Able to demonstrate a knowledge of clinical / governance and audit - Demonstrate an understanding of research and its impact on clinical practice. - Knowledge of Safeguarding Children/Vulnerable Adults and procedure for reporting - Evidence of involvement in project development work or health promotion group work **Desirable** - Experience of working within a high ethnic population - DN/ Community experience ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Evidence of involvement in project development work or health promotion group work - Ability to lead a team and to work as an autonomous practitioner. - Ability to work under pressure - Ability to work across organisational boundaries - Systematic approach to work and Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others - Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings - Encourages others to express themselves openly - Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems - Shows respect for others’ feelings, views and circumstances - In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms others down. - Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, can recognise when to use them and does so - Listens to personal comments without becoming defensive ### Qualifications & Training **Essential** - Educated to degree level or equivalent e.g. Community Specialist practitioner /PgDip - Independent Nurse Prescribing or willingness to undertake - Evidence of CPD - MSPP or equivalent **Desirable** - Post Graduate study in relevant area ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 160.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10681645) - [person specification (pdf, 160.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10649899) - [the trust values & ethos_march26 (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3073) - [a message from the chief executive (pdf, 193.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3043) - [application & interview skills tips_june26 (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3056) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.