Community Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Community Nurse to join a team in the Fenland locality, providing high-quality nursing care to patients in their homes or residential settings. The position focuses on developing skills in wound care, palliative care, and long-term conditions, supporting the nurse to become an expert in assessment and care-planning. The successful candidate will work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team, ensuring patient-centred care and high standards of nursing intervention.
Key responsibilities
- Keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
- Provide a high standard of care and nursing intervention within a patient's own home, including lone working.
- Work as an autonomous practitioner within an integrated multi-professional team.
- Be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines.
- Provide support and education to peers, new staff, non-registered staff, and students.
Essential criteria
- RGN level 1, RGN level 2
- Evidence of professional development
- Community experience
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
- Good communication skills
- Able to assess plan and implement care and formulate care plans
- Support Integrated Care Workers and teach and support student nurses and HCA's.
- Ability to safeguard and promote welfare of children and young people/ vulnerable adults.
- Good documentation skills
- Has a realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development.
- Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others.
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others and understands confidentiality
- Responsible for maintaining registration with NMC and/or other professional bodies
- Kneel, bend & stoop, and work in cramped environments.
- Move and manoeuvre people and equipment.
- Manoeuvre patients using safe techniques in accordance with care plan
- Ability to travel independently around the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship qualification or equivalent
- Management of leg ulcer qualification
- Primary care experience and experience in wound care
- Understanding of clinical supervision
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 14d
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Community Nurse
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge, do you want to be part of a team striving to make a difference with patient care in our community then this is the role for you. We are looking for a Community Nurse to work in and around the Fenland locality, you will be 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 just progress in your career, come work with CPFT Community Nursing Team.
Main duties of the job
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
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