District Nurse / Community Nursing Sister

Do you hold the District Nursing qualification or are willing to work towards it? Do you have extensive community nursing experience? Are you able to work twilight and night shifts? If so, then come and work with the CPFT Countywide Out of Hours Community Nursing Service as we are currently recruiting dedicated and motivated nurses within our Cambridge, Fenland and Peterborough bases. This role is for 24 hrs per week only. We are an unplanned care service that operates seven days a week working twilight and night shifts. As part of the role, you will be responsible for triaging calls and managing the shift of a small team of nurses. You will have opportunity to develop your skills and career and we will support you fully in this.,

• To work as an autonomous practitioner.
• To be responsible for triaging patientscalls andundertake assessment of patients with complex and multiple pathologies using specialist clinical reasoning skills.
• To keep the patient at thecentreof care.
• To supervise junior staff and students overseeing patient intervention and ensure that a high standard of care isdeliveredand staff achieve set competencies
• Toprioritizeall referrals according to clinical lead and allocate or signpost appropriately
• To identify patient needs, agree goals and to provide appropriate holistic nursing interventions, to refer to other services and provide or order equipment
• To have line management responsibilities for a small team
  
  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.