An exciting opportunity has arisen for a District Nurse to join our Cambridge East Community Nursing Team.

You will be working as part of a team which includes Community Nurses (RN), Advanced Clinical Nurse Practitioner and Integrated Care Workers. 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 a District Nurse Specialist Qualification, or have worked in a leadership role 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 post holder will be supported and be committed to further development within role either with modular post graduate development or completion of the Specialist Practitioner DN Qualification.

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 specified criteria.

• To work as an autonomous practitioner with the integrated multi professional team
• To be responsible for own caseload and undertake assessment of complex patients
• 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 supervise junior colleagues
• Accountable for the delegation of caseload
• 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
• To provide support, guidance and leadership to a team of nurses and non registered team members

*DVLA have a number ofreciprocalarrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website

About us

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 andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include 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, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of ourethnic minority andLGBTQ+ communities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

• To work as an autonomous practitioner within the integrated multi-professional team, neighbourhood teams
• To be responsible for own caseload and undertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills
• To be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines, with the support of the multidisciplinary team
• To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making
• Provide support and education t peers, new staff non-registered staff and students
• To supervise junior staff and students overseeing patient intervention and ensure that a high standard of care is delivered and staff achieve set competencies
• To be accountable for a delegated case load
• To prioritise all referrals according to clinical lead and allocate or signpost appropriately
• To provide a high standard of nursing intervention within a patient's own home this includes lone working with access to Specialist and Advanced Practitioners when required
• To identify patient needs, agree goads and to provide appropriate holistic nursing interventions, to refer to other services and provide or order equipment

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• RGN Level 1 educated to degree level
• Post-registration qualification relevant to district nursing (DNSPQ or equivalent: Community Nursing Degree/comprehensive community nursing CPD)
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Practice Assessor/Supervisor

Desirable

• Management of leg ulcer qualification
• Prescriber or willing to undertake
• Wound care qualification
• Continence qualification

Experience

Essential

• Multidisciplinary working experience
• Management experience
• Relevant and proven experience post registration in a variety of things
• Nursing in both acute and community settings

Desirable

• Demonstrate application of clinical governance and experience of clinical supervision
• Experience in delivering training

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Extensive understanding of clinical supervision

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• 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

Physical requirements

Essential

• Travel around work base locality
• Manoeuvre patients using safe techniques in accordance with care plan

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Sawston Medical Practice

London Road, Sawston

Cambridge

CB24 9NA

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