Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse (DNSPQ)

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Detailed job description and main 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 to 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 goals 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 educated to degree level.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Mentorship qualification or equivalent.

Desirable criteria

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

Experience

Essential criteria

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

Desirable criteria

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

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• 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 criteria

• Extensive understanding of clinical supervision.

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential criteria

• 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 criteria

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

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children and young people's mental health services;
• Children's community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• Ground-breaking research.

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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

• Senior Community Nurse/District Nurse (DNSPQ) (PDF, 333.8KB)
• CPFT Values (PDF, 114.7KB)
• CPFT Mindful Employers (PDF, 51.3KB)
• CPFT Accommodation (PDF, 296.6KB)