Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse (DNSPQ)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Community Nurse to join the Cambridge North Villages Nursing Team. The role involves working autonomously within an integrated multi-professional team, managing your own caseload of complex patients, and providing high standards of nursing intervention in patients' homes. You will also support and supervise junior colleagues and non-registered staff, ensuring excellent nursing care and reducing the need for acute hospital admissions. Independent travel around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is essential.
Key responsibilities
- Work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi-professional team.
- Be responsible for own caseload and undertake assessment of complex patients.
- Be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines.
- Keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
- Provide support, guidance and leadership to a team of nurses and non registered team members.
- Prioritise all referrals according to clinical lead and allocate or signpost appropriately.
Essential criteria
- RGN Level 1 educated to degree level
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- Mentorship qualification or equivalent.
- Multidisciplinary working experience
- Management experience
- Relevant and proven experience post registration in a variety of things
- The ability to respond to changing situations
- Ability to develop effective working relationships
- Ability to exercise initiative
- Ability to prioritise and manage workload to meet the needs of the service
- Ability to innovate
- Demonstrate an understanding of national government initiatives in health and social care and how these impact on local services
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
- Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others
- Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
- Manoeuvre patients using safe techniques in accordance with care plan
Desirable criteria
- Prescriber or willing to undertake
- Leadership qualification
- Demonstrate application of clinical governance and experience of clinical supervision
- Experience in delivering training
- Extensive understanding of clinical supervision
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.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 14d
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse (DNSPQ)
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Community nurse to join our Cambridge North Villages Nursing Team.
You will be working as part of a team which includes a Community Nursing Clinical Lead, Community Nurses (RN), and Healthcare Assistants. You will link closely with colleagues outside of CPFT including GPs and other members of the multidisciplinary team to support excellent nursing care at home, reducing the necessity for acute hospital admission.
The successful candidate will need to have worked within a community nursing team or similar role - with community related continual professional development evidenced with completion or plan for completion of post graduate community related qualification.
The successful candidate will be supported and encouraged to develop their career within role.
Main duties of the job
**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 sp
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