Senior Community Nurse​/District Nurse; DNSPQ

Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse (DNSPQ)

Join to apply for the Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse (DNSPQ) role at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT).

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, and have community related continual professional development evidenced with completion or plan for completion of postgraduate community related qualification. The successful candidate will be supported and encouraged to develop their career within the role.

• Work as an autonomous practitioner with the integrated multidisciplinary team.
• Be responsible for own caseload and undertake assessment of complex patients.
• Be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment of patients within professional guidelines.
• 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.
• Supervise junior colleagues.
• Accountable for delegation of caseload.
• Provide high standards of nursing intervention within a patient’s own home, including lone working, with access to specialist and advanced practitioners when required.
• Provide support, guidance and leadership to a team of nurses and non‑registered team members.

• Full UK driving licence and have use of a vehicle.
• Will need to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines; public transport is not acceptable.
• Can provide evidence of current driving record and vehicle access.
• No sponsorship is offered for this role.

• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Health Care Provider
• Industry: Hospitals and Health Care

We encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Location:

Cambridge East, Harlow, Stevenage, St Neots, Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom.

For further information, contact:
Natasha Edwards, Area Nurse Manager
Email:
Phone:
Kate Faulkner, Clinical Lead
Email:

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