Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nurse
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 310-OPAC-6373740
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- City Care Centre
- Town
- Peterborough
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 Pro Rata Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Community Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
Are you a registered nurse or about to qualify?
Do you want an exciting and interesting job with a great carer potential?
Do you aspire to make a real positive contribution to nursing in the community and working within a neighbourhood team?
The community nursing team across Peterborough are currently offering opportunities for full time and part time hours working within CPFT.
We provide a service 7 days a week, working closely with other community services and PCN’s to provide high standard holistic care to the population of Peterborough.
You will have opportunity to develop yourself, with extensive learning and development opportunities.
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.
As a community staff nurse, you will be working as an autonomous practitioner within the multi-disciplinary team and neighbourhood team. You will provide high standard of nursing care and interventions within the patient’s own home, with support from the wider team.
The patient will be at the centre of care being provided, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making. You will be accountable for assessing, interpreting, planning, implementing, and evaluating treatment to patients within professional guidelines. Patient needs will be identified through holistic nursing.
You will have opportunity to provide support and education to peers, new staff and students.
*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website.
Working for our organisation
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 and empowering 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 our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Detailed job description and main 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 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, ensuing patient and carer participation in decision making
- Provide support and education to peers, new staff non-registered staff and students
- To provide a high standard of care
- To provide a high standard of nursing intervention within a patients own home this includes lone working, with access to Specialist and Advanced Practitioners when required
- Will be expected to work as part of a 24/7 service
- 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 criteria
- RGN Level 1, RGN Level 2
- Evidence of professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Community experience
Desirable criteria
- Primary care experience and experience in wound care
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
- Able to assess plan and implement care and formulate care plans
- Ability to safeguard and promote welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities for others
- Has a realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development
- Understands the principle of confidentiality
- Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, can recognise when to use them and does so
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel across the county sometimes at short notice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Walton
- Job title
- Area Nursing Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07959 855091
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