The closing date is 12 May 2025
Salary: £29,970 to £36,483 a year Per Annum Pro Rata
Job summary
Lunesdale District Nurses to cover Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale and surrounding areas. The community care group has an exciting opportunity to recruit to a permanent 30 hours community staff nurse band 5 position starting as soon as possible.
We would like an enthusiastic and highly motivated band 5 Community Nurse who will be happy to work in an evolving district nursing service. The successful applicant will be committed to working closely with health and social care colleagues to provide high quality care to patients with a wide range of medical conditions in the community setting.
Main duties of the job
The role requires excellent communication skills as you will be undertaking complex nursing assessments and developing and delivering programmes of care for patients and carers. The district nurses work a 24hr service and there is an expectation that you may be required to support this to ensure service delivery.
You will need to work collaboratively with other professionals, voluntary sector and informal carers to promote excellent care to patients in their own homes and community setting.
You will be joining an enthusiastic and motivated team who are friendly and approachable. We are very patient focused and staff development is high on our agenda. As part of our team we want to develop all staff to the highest standard.
You will need a full UK drivers licence and access to a car in order to fulfil this role.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
Desirable
- Teaching and Assessing in Clinical Practice
- Leg ulcer management
- Tissue Viability
Experience and Skills
Essential
- Evidence of Professional and personal development via a portfolio
- Scope of Professional practice
- Clinical Supervision
- Reflective Practice
- Knowledge of Primary Health Care Teams
Desirable
- Experience of Clinical Audit
- District Nursing experience
Management
Essential
- Effective time management
Desirable
- Demonstrate and awareness of current National and Local NHS activity within the acute and primary care settings
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).