Community Nurse

Main area Community Nursing Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 26.25 hours per week (includes some weekend working) Job
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Site Kings Hall Town St Ives Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 06/07/2026 23:59

We are looking for a Community Nurse to work in and around the St Ives/Hunts locality, fully supported to gain new skills and experience needed to deliver high quality nursing care to patients in their own home or residential setting.

As a community nurse we will develop your wound care, palliative care, and long-term conditions knowledge and skills; supporting you to become an expert in assessment and care-planning to deliver quality care that is caring and compassionate.

If you are looking for a new challenge or to progress in your career, come work with CPFT Community Nursing Team.

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.

We are looking for people who:

• Have experience of working in the Community
• Are educated to RGN level 2
• Are able to demonstrate a commitment to high quality care and service provision
• Have the ability to work flexibly and as part of a team
• Have the ability to assess and formulate care plans
• Are able to teach and support student Nurses and Health Care Assistants
• Have enhanced communication and inter personal skills

You will be responsible for:

• Keeping the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making
• Providing a high standard of care
• Providing a high standard of nursing intervention within a patient's own home, with access to Specialist and Advanced Practitioners when required
• Working as part of a 24/7 service and multidisciplinary team

* DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly underrepresented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities:

• To work as an autonomous practitioner with the integrated multi professional team
• 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 provide high standards of nursing intervention within a patients own home, this includes lone working, with access to specialist and advanced practitioners when required

• RGN level 1, RGN level 2
• Evidence of professional development
• Mentorship qualification or equivalent
• Management of leg ulcer qualification

• Community experience
• Primary care experience and experience…