Job summary
- Main area
- Community
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 179-7538162-I
- Employer
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sudbury Community Health Centre
- Town
- Sudbury
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
District Nurse - Sudbury INT
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
The Sudbury Integrated Neighbourhood Team is looking for a District Nurse to work alongside our established team of three other District Nurses & several Community Nurses, OT’s and Physiotherapists and support staff.
When you join our team, you will be at the front line of healthcare, delivering medical care to the patients on our caseloads in their own homes, with excellent support from an Integrated Community Team which includes Adult Social Services staff.
This post requires a specialised District Nursing degree, following your Adult Nursing qualification. NHS work experience is essential & Community Nursing experience desirable.
We attend the housebound patients of the 5 GP Practices in Sudbury and surrounding villages.
You will join a large, friendly, and well–led integrated community healthcare team, where we work closely with the MDT (Social Workers, GP’s and Allied Health Professionals)
You will be supported with a comprehensive induction and training, as needed, to help you settle in, with the time & opportunity to get to know the people on your caseload, along with development opportunities.
Excitingly we are now integrated with the Virtual Ward service where we can deliver hospital at home with support from our WSFT Hospital consultants overseeing the patient care. This will require skills such as IV therapy, ECG recording and various Point of Care Testing techniques.
Main duties of the job
· To lead and manage the District Nursing Service in this Locality by providing specialist clinical and supervisory leadership to junior staff and students within the team.
· To manage a caseload of patients with multiple and complex needs, using evidence-based practise to asses, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions, with the patient at the centre.
- To provide the highest standard of clinical care by using advanced skills and expert knowledge to holistically assess needs, instigate and provide clinical treatments using evidence-based practice.
- To lead service development of integrated services in the Locality, in partnership with peers and colleagues.
- To use new knowledge in innovative ways and take responsibility for developing and changing practice in complex and sometimes unpredictable environments.
- To support staff to feel confident and competent to move across organisational and professional boundaries.
- To monitor the quality of care provision and identify and promote areas for service development.
If you have the necessary skills, experience and qualities to help us to put patients first, please contact Jennifer McCrory, Health Team Manager, for an informal discussion or to arrange a visit. Jennifer McCrory 07961603129
Working for our organisation
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description attached for more information
Job summary:
- To lead and manage the District Nursing Service in a given To provide specialist clinical and supervisory leadership to junior staff and students within the team.
- To manage a caseload of patients with multiple and complex needs, using evidence-based practice to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions, with the patient at the center.
- To provide the highest standard of clinical care by using advanced skills and expert knowledge to holistically assess needs, instigate and provide clinical treatments using evidence-based
- To lead service development of integrated services in the Locality, in partnership with peers and
- To use new knowledge in innovative ways and take responsibility for developing and changing practice in complex and sometimes unpredictable environments.
- To support staff to feel confident and competent to move across organisational and professional
- To monitor the quality-of-care provision and identify and promote areas for service
- To build strong relationships with partner organisations, particularly for patients receiving shared care to ensure an effective flow of patient information to ensure high quality care.
Job responsibilities:
Clinical
- Manage a caseload of complex patients with healthcare needs within a designated population, using specialist knowledge to carry out assessments.
- Assess; develop; and implement individualised and specialist nursing care programmes in the
- Evaluate treatment interventions for the caseload and modify healthcare plans. Encourage the patient towards self-care and independence, using a health coaching approach and to provide training, education and advice.
- Work in partnership with other services to and the patient and their family/carer to preventing inappropriate admission to acute hospital settings.
- Support discharges into the
- Effectively manage and oversee the triage of all referrals to the
- Ensure all aspects of care offered by the team meet the agreed National, Professional and Local
- Be responsible for the coordination of the day-to-day planning and delivery of District Nursing services within the team, prioritising clinical needs and delegating where needed to provide an effective
- Be responsible with other senior colleagues to provide the needs of the patient/client group, planning and delivering services.
- Ensure nursing capacity is reported using escalation process and
- Undertakes independent prescribing for own caseload within the limits of the postholders competence and the requirements of the nurse practitioner role.
Person specification
Education & Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse Level 1
- District Nurse Qualification
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Preparation for Mentorship qualification
- Current NMC registration
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Teaching, learning and assessing qualification
Desirable criteria
- District Nurse qualification at Masters Level
- Specific Leadership qualification
- Tissue viability or leg ulcer management training
- Specific management qualification
- V300 non-medical prescribing qualification
- Teaching, learning and assessing, Level 7 or PGCE
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of leading a DN team
- Management of complex patients
- Be responsible for management of complex cases sharing knowledge and skills with locality and community nurses to foster and grow knowledge and skills
- Advanced clinical assessment skills
- Awareness and understanding of local and national priorities in relation to patients with long-term conditions
- Awareness and understanding of local and National priorities in relation to Nursing
- Awareness and understanding of local and National priorities in relation to integration
- Ability to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working collaboratively and autonomously
Desirable criteria
- Management of a community team
- Experience of interview and recruitment skills
- Understanding and knowledge of the Health and Social Care Act
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Ability to manage people
- Ability to work across organisational and budgetary boundaries within an identified Locality
- Working in integrated team and style
- Can do approach
- Provide and role model high standards of care
- Work in partnership with Alliance partners to deliver seamless care to patients and develop service
- Work within the Alliance to identify and drive service developments and improvements
- Implementation of change to promote high quality outcomes for the locality
- Ability to Travel to rural locations to meet the needs of the post
- Ability to self-manage and prioritise
- Excellent communication skills (detail re complex situations)
- Health Coaching skills or willingness to undertake
Desirable criteria
- Coaching skills
- Cannulation/IV therapy administration
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Role model positive behaviours
- Meet the standards for Professional appearance and behaviours
- Demonstrate the Trust values
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jennifer McCrory
- Job title
- Health Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07961603129
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