District Nurse

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.

Agenda for change

Band 7

£49,387 to £56,515 a year Pro rata per annum

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The Integrated Neighbourhood Teams are looking for newly qualified or experienced District Nurse to lead a team of Community Nurses. The team works alongside Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Social workers, and support staff. Please make it clear in your application which hours you are interested in working in.

This rewarding job helps maintain a patient's independence and freedom, whilst still being able to access exemplary medical care.

Please see the full job description attached for more information

1. Manage a caseload of complex patients with healthcare needs within a designated population, using specialist knowledge to carry out assessments.
2. Assess; develop; and implement individualised and specialist nursing care programmes in th
3. 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.
4. Work in partnership with other services to and the patient and their family/carer to preventing inappropriate admission to acute hospital settings.
5. Support discharges into the
6. Effectively manage and oversee the triage of all referrals to th
7. Ensure all aspects of care offered by the team meet the agreed National, Professional and Local
8. 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
9. Be responsible with other senior colleagues to provide the needs of the patient/client group, planning and delivering services.
10. Ensure nursing capacity is reported using escalation process a
11. Undertakes independent prescribing for own caseload within the limits of the postholders competence and the requirements of the nurse practitioner role.

Main duties of the job

• To lead and manage the District Nursing Service in this Locality. 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 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.

Whilst the location for this post is advertised in Havehill there may be the opportunity for part time, full time, fixed term or substantive roles in our other teams including Sudbury, Newmarket, Bury Town, Bury Rural, Mildenhall, Bury Rural. If you have applied to the Bury Town, Bury Rural of Newmarket advertisement, you need not apply to this post too

Permanent

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

Haverhill Health Centre

Camps Road

Haverhill

United Kingdom

Haverhill Health Centre

Camps Road

Haverhill

United Kingdom

https://www.wsh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

10 November 2026