Community Nurse in the District Nurse Team

Job summary

Calling all Band 5 Registered Nurses! We have vacancies for Community Nurses.

We have roles available for you within our Derbyshire, Amber Valley Community Teams. Full and part-time hours available.

Are you looking for a move to community nursing or indeed a move to a different community locality?

Did you have a placement as a student in the community and would like to return?

Then come and join us.

Amber Valley is the heart of beautiful Derbyshire a combination of green space and thriving small towns.

We have excellent links to the M1 and A38 and it's only a short hop up to the beautiful Peak District, Derby, and Nottingham city centres.

We are professional, skilled and friendly District Nursing teams, who want to make a difference to our patients lives by providing and facilitating evidence-based nursing care.

We have bases in Belper, Ripley, Alfreton and Heanor.

We provide training and education for the successful candidate. DCHS is a great place for development, for aspiring leaders we have learning opportunities, support secondments into Band 6 roles and the option to apply to undertake the Specialist Practitioner Qualification (DN course).

There has never been a more exciting time to join DCHS which is one of the largest specialist community NHS providers in the country - one that is also among the very best NHS employers, as voted by its own staff.

Happy to be contacted for a chat or to arrange a visit.

Main duties of the job

Provide high quality nursing care to our patients in our local community to keep them safe at home, prevent hospital admission and support hospital discharge home.

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised patient care in the most efficient and clinically effective way whilst maintaining the patient's privacy and dignity.

Provide advice and support to junior staff in the delivery of high quality care and actively support the District Nurses in the management of the health care environment.

Implement/refer on to the relevant services as appropriate.

Work in close collaboration with the Integrated Community Teams/GP surgeries and local acute trusts.

About us

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations.

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression