District Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 30
- Posted
- 07/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic and highly motivated District Nurse with a Specialist Practice Qualification to lead and develop the Cannock Villages District Nursing team. You will manage a caseload of patients, provide support and supervision to team members, and ensure high-quality, person-centred care in patients' homes. The position requires a dynamic and skilled NMC Registered Band 6 District Nurse to deliver services in line with MPFT's policies and local targets. It is a part-time role, 30 hours per week, across a 7-day service, with an expectation of independent travel.
Essential criteria
- SPQDN qualification
- working towards SPQDN qualification
- experience working as a SSN/Band 6 in community
Desirable criteria
- V150 Prescribing
- V300 Prescribing
- Caseload Management
- Community Experience
- Palliative Care Management
- Wound Care Management
- Leadership and Management of a Team
- SPQDN qualification
- working towards SPQDN qualification
- experience working as a SSN/Band 6 in community
- V150 Prescribing
- V300 Prescribing
- Caseload Management
- Community Experience
- Palliative Care Management
- Wound Care Management
- Leadership and Management of a Team
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic and highly motivated District Nurse with a Specialist Practice Qualification, looking for an opportunity to lead and develop our friendly and supportive Cannock Villages District Nursing team?
We are looking for a NMC Registered Band 6 District Nurse with a Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing who is dynamic, motivated and highly skilled to support, coach and develop individuals to deliver consistently high-quality services.
You will be managing a caseload of patients while providing support and supervision for team members and students to enable provision of high-quality person-centred care to patients within their own homes which includes ensuring high standards of care are delivered in line with MPFT's policies and meeting locally required targets.
This role is part-time, 30 hours per week across a 7 days per week service with an expectation to travel independently across the geographical patch. We will consider requests for flexible working.
Main duties of the job
As Band 6 district nurse you will have a detailed professional and clinical skills and knowledge, be a skilled and competent specialist practitioner and have a focus in the following areas:
- Palliative care
- Administration of medication
- Management of long-term conditions
- Onward referrals to other members of the Multi Disciplinary Team includ
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