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Community Specialist Practitioner - District Nurse
The closing date is 05 August 2025
Are you a qualified District Nurse with the Specialist Practitioner Qualification? Are you looking for an exciting and challenging role in a friendly and supportive community care team? If so, we would love to hear from you.
We are looking for enthusiastic and passionate District Nurses with excellent communication skills and great leadership skills to motivate and support others to maintain the delivery of high quality, proactive and safe care that we at HDFT strive to achieve.
Main duties of the job
To lead and manage a team in the provision of an community nursing care for a defined locality
Establish high quality programmes of evidenced based care for individual patients referred to the team.
Ensure the implementation and evaluation of care in conjunction with other agencies incorporating statutory and voluntary services
Line manage a team with varying skill mix
About us
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East.
At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you're looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients' lives, HDFT could be the place for you!
We offer colleagues:
* A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
* Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
* Employee Support and wellbeing - we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and a fast-track Physiotherapy service.
Please note:
* Due to high levels of interest, posts may close early if we reach a sufficient number of applications
* Visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application.
* Please also be aware that the Trust does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles.
Job responsibilities
We are a forward thinking service with a real sense of community and pride ourselves on our ability to support people in their own homes. Join us and support our vision of delivering the right care, first time, every time.
Bases in Adult Community Services include Harrogate, Ripon and Knaresborough, covering both rural and urban areas.
We strongly encourage you to contact us to arrange an informal visit to learn more about the service we provide and meet our teams.
For a list of all of the responsibilities of the role and a detailed job description and personal specification please refer to the attached documents.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse with NMC registration
* Degree in Community Health Care Nursing
Experience
* Experience of managing caseloads
* Experience of working with patients with long term conditions
Skills
* Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
* Clinical Supervision/Leadership/Supervisory Experience
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.
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Community Care Team Knaresborough, Ripon and Harrogate
£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum, pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time,Part-time
Reference number
421-LTUCC-2008S-B
Job locations
Community Care Team Knaresborough, Ripon and Harrogate
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