Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse (DNSPQ)

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community nurse  to join our Cambridge East 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, 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

Detailed job description and main 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 t 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 case load
• 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 goads and to provide appropriate holistic nursing interventions, to refer to other services and provide or order equipment