Job overview

An exciting  development  opportunity has arisen for a Band 7  Community Nurse in a new service that bridges Primary Care and Community Nursing in East Northants PCN . 

This initiative aims to proactively identify and manage health needs, reduce health inequalities, and deliver tailored interventions directly in patients’ homes. By focusing on early identification, prevention, and long-term condition management, the service will enhance patient outcomes, reduce practice appointments, reduce hospital admissions, and support the broader goals of integrated community care and neighborhood working.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate significant experience in the field of Community Nursing or Primary Care, together with a genuine desire to develop both the service and yourself. 

They will use their management experience to lead on service changes and developments and contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures.

They will lead a small team, with involvement in service coordination, staff wellbeing, supervision,  governance and service performance and improvement.

Main duties of the job

This initiative aims to proactively identify and manage health needs, reduce health inequalities, and deliver tailored interventions directly in patients’ homes. By focusing on early identification, prevention, and long-term condition management, the service will enhance patient outcomes, reduce practice appointments, reduce hospital admissions, and support the broader goals of integrated community care and neighborhood working.

You will be expected to see patients within a given geographic area and may mean that you will need to liaise with a variety of GP surgeries.

As both an organisation and a service we are actively involved both local and national innovative projects around improving quality of care, integrated working with stakeholders, designing new pathways. We have an extensive program of training and skills development available for staff and actively nominate and encourage our staff to apply for national awards and recognition, such as Queen’s Nursing Institute, RCN and Nursing Times awards.

Car owner/driver and current driving license essential or access to a car (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.