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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides integrated community and mental health, learning disability and social care services of the highest standard due to our continued commitment to quality and service improvement. We aim to support people of all ages to achieve the very best they can for their health and well being. To ensure that we achieve this goal we look to recruit candidates of a high calibre that share our passion for delivering excellent service user care, research and education.
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Community Nurse
Accepting applications until: 28-Dec-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 28-Dec-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- North Cambridgeshire Hospital
- Address
- Churchill Rd
- Town
- Wisbech
- Postcode
- PE13 3AB
- Major / Minor Region
- Cambridgeshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Includes some weekend working)
Salary
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Community Nursing
Job overview
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 Wisbech 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.
Advert
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
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities:
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 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
*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN level 1, RGN level 2
- Evidence of professional development
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship qualification or equivalent
- Management of leg ulcer qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Community experience
Desirable criteria
- Primary care experience and experience in wound care
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of clinical supervision
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- 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
Physical Requirements
Essential criteria
- Kneel, bend & stoop, and work in cramped environments.
- Travel around work base locality
- Move and manoeuvre people and equipment.
- Manoeuvre patients using safe techniques in accordance with care plan
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hazel Denman
- Job title
- Area Nurse Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07749 588222
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