Senior Community Nurse - Nights

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Main area Community Nursing - Nights Grade NHS AfC:
Band 6 Contract Permanent:
Full time (part time hours considered) Hours 27 hours per week (Part Time working 3 nights, over 7 nights per week) Job
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Site Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Town Blackpool Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum (pro rata for part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 22/07/2026 23:59

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year.

We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the recruitment of a Senior community nurse within the District Nursing night team. This appealing role will enable the successful person to support the leadership and management of staff and the caseload within the District Nurse night service to meet the needs of the population.

Interested applicants will need to be registered nurses who have relevant nursing qualifications to degree level, specialist post registration education and leadership training or equivalent experience.

We are looking for the successful candidate to be able to:

• assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for a defined caseload
• ensure that the care needs of the caseload are met by effective management and appropriate delegation of work to other members of the team
• work in partnership with the primary health care team and liaise and cooperate with everyone involved in holistic patient care
• be able to demonstrate extensive knowledge, advanced analytical and practical skills, and the ability to communicate in a non-judgemental, empathetic way with patients, carers and other professionals
• provide clinical supervision and leadership to junior staff and support staff development

The post holder will need to have good communication skills both written and verbal, have evidence of ongoing professional development and be able to work independently.

If you would like to work in a forward thinking area where your opinions and clinical judgements are valued, then this could be the job for you.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire and offers a full range of District Hospital services and Community Health services to this population.

Commitment to undertake ongoing in-service training and development is essential. You should be motivated, keen to learn and ready to embrace change. Our commitment to you is to provide the environment for this to happen and ensure that you are part of a defined preceptorship programme.

If you are motivated to deliver high standards of care and have the personal qualities and characteristics as outlined in the person specification, then this could be the post for you.

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