Integrated District Nursing Sister Job Luton area,England UK,Nursing

Integrated District Nursing Sister

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge)

Job summary

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.

About us

Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.

Please be aware that East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust will never ask applicants to pay fees at any stage of the recruitment process, including job applications, sponsorship arrangements, or employment offers. All recruitment communications and job applications should only be made through our official careers website and published contact details.

We encourage you to report the matter to your local police or relevant law enforcement agency. Any concerns relating to potential recruitment fraud should also be reported to our Local Counter Fraud Specialist (LCFS) as soon as possible.

Job 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 elevate 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.

Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential

Educated to degree level or equivalent…