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 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 and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.
Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including 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, and research and development.
To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.
Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
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
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- Mentorship qualification or equivalent.
Desirable
- Prescriber or willing to undertake
- Leadership qualification
Experience
Essential
- Multidisciplinary working experience
- Management experience
- Relevant and proven experience post registration in a variety of things
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
- 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
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Address 15 Mowlam's Close, Mowlam's Close, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9NA, United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Area Nurse Manager, Natasha Edwards, natasha.edwards@cpft.nhs.uk, 07707144734
Date posted 07 September 2026
Pay scheme Agenda for change
Band Band 6
Salary £39,959 to £48,117 a year, Per annum
Contract Permanent
Working pattern Full-time
Reference number 310-MOPAC-8235395
Job locations 15 Mowlam's Close, Mowlam's Close, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9NA, United Kingdom
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