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 Fenland 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.
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
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 people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
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
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
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