# Triage Nurse - District Nursing > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/triage-nurse-district-nursing/d7fa1171-e90a-4ca9-a771-e02e0e04450a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/triage-nurse-district-nursing/d7fa1171-e90a-4ca9-a771-e02e0e04450a.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Oxford - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum | pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent: Full and part time hours available - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (up to full time hours available hours.) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-29T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-16T07:52:12.429Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Abingdon/Oxford_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Health_Services/Community_Health_Services-v8064335 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8064335?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Join our new District Nurse Triage Desk and help shape the future of community care Our District Nurse Duty Desk provides a vital triage service, enabling patients to receive holistic assessments of their care needs and ensuring they are signposted to the most appropriate services. The team plays a key role in coordinating timely visits from District Nurse assessors, delivering responsive, patient-centred care within the community. ### Main duties of the job The services currently operates 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with core hours of 08.00-18.30. Shift patterns are 08.00-16.00, 10.30-18.30 or 08.00-18.30. What will we give you? Once you have started with Oxford Health you will be on the road to develop and hone your clinical skills. We offer each person a bespoke induction in your team with a period of being supernumerary , which is usually up to 4 weeks. We will ensure you can attend the  District Nursing Induction programme, this is tailored to district nursing staff, encompassing as facets of Oxford Health and the lived experience of what you will do, giving you an insight into the organisation. The preceptorship programme is another opportunity for you and you will be able to undertake a service development project. We are Oxford Health pride ourselves in supporting and developing our staff to achieve their potential and to fly in their career. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values. ## Job Details Join our new District Nurse Triage Desk and help shape the future of community care Our District Nurse Duty Desk provides a vital triage service, enabling patients to receive holistic assessments of their care needs and ensuring they are signposted to the most appropriate services. The team plays a key role in coordinating timely visits from District Nurse assessors, delivering responsive, patient-centred care within the community. ## Job Description The services currently operates 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with core hours of 08.00-18.30. Shift patterns are 08.00-16.00, 10.30-18.30 or 08.00-18.30. What will we give you? Once you have started with Oxford Health you will be on the road to develop and hone your clinical skills. We offer each person a bespoke induction in your team with a period of being supernumerary , which is usually up to 4 weeks. We will ensure you can attend the District Nursing Induction programme, this is tailored to district nursing staff, encompassing as facets of Oxford Health and the lived experience of what you will do, giving you an insight into the organisation. The preceptorship programme is another opportunity for you and you will be able to undertake a service development project. We are Oxford Health pride ourselves in supporting and developing our staff to achieve their potential and to fly in their career. ## Responsibilities We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - IT literate with basic key board skills. - Demonstrates an understanding of the Clinical Governance requirements. ### experience **Essential** - Knowledge around long term conditions and their management. - Ability to manage competing priorities and work under pressure. **Desirable** - Previous Community Services experience - Evidence of clinical ability. catheterisation, meds administration, wound care ### qualification **Essential** - Registered General Nurse (adult). - Educated to degree level or equivalent **Desirable** - Mentor qualification ## Documents - [community nurse job description. student approach (pdf, 376.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10354988) - [guidance notes for candidates applying for a job at ohft (pdf, 424.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2228) ## 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.