Overview
Whether you're new to the field or have years of experience, we have a range of permanent, full-time, and part-time positions open across various locations across Oxfordshire. Our service hours are from 8am until 6:30pm seven days a week. We are keen to explore the art of the possible with hours, locality and your availability.
Do you want the privilege of visiting patients in their own homes to deliver increasingly complex, holistic care? If yes, District Nursing may be the right career choice for you, with the added bonus of no night shifts. A team near you would wholeheartedly welcome you to join them.
All levels of experience are welcome in District Nursing – don't believe the old wives' tales about needing to work on a ward first. Whether you are newly qualified or looking for a change in direction and a more challenging role, we would welcome your application for this exciting opportunity to join the district nursing world.
We’ll need you to have excellent communication skills with a positive attitude. We share a caring, non-judgmental and inclusive attitude, committed to the delivery of safe, high‑quality care.
Please note that this recruitment day is by invitation only and is open exclusively to applicants who have successfully passed the screening stage.
As a Community Nurse, you will be supported to develop into an autonomous practitioner, delivering care to patients with complex healthcare needs in their own homes.
District Nursing Context
District Nursing is a highly specialised field of practice, recognised by the Queen’s Nursing Institute and the NMC as a specialist role. As a Community Staff Nurse, you will work within a neighbourhood team including District Nurse Team Leaders, Community Staff Nurses, Therapists, Assistant Practitioners, HCA's and phlebotomists. Together, you will support patients in the community and help prevent unnecessary admissions to acute services.
A typical day begins with careful planning, reviewing patient needs and coordinating visits. Throughout the day, you will bring clinical expertise directly into people's homes and clinic settings; changing dressings, managing medications, supporting long‑term conditions and reassuring families.
No two visits are the same. One moment may involve delivering complex clinical care; the next, providing calm support during a difficult time. Using mobile technology and digital systems, working in an agile and responsive way, updating records in real time and staying connected with multidisciplinary colleagues.
At the heart of the role is relationship‑building. You become a vital source of support for individuals who may see few others. The role combines compassion, independence, adaptability and smart technology to help people remain safe, comfortable and independent at home.
Recruitment Day
If you are successfully shortlisted, our Recruitment Day on Tuesday 24th March 2026 at Unipart House in Oxford is designed to give you a real feel for life at Oxford Health. You'll have an extended period to meet our teams, learn about our services and show us what you can do.
The day will include:
* Numeracy/Literacy Test: A short assessment to evaluate your foundational skills.
* Group Activity: An exercise that allows you to demonstrate your collaboration and problem‑solving abilities.
* Interview: A chance for us to get to know you better, understand your skills, and for you to ask us any questions you have.
* Networking: An opportunity to meet our staff and learn more about the roles, our wards, and our commitment to your professional development.
This is your opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and values we're looking for in our next District Nurses of the future.
What We Offer
We are committed to investing in our staff and providing a rewarding career path.
* Support & Development: We offer comprehensive training and ongoing support to ensure you have everything you need to succeed in your role.
* Flexible Working: We have a range of permanent, full‑time and part‑time positions with various shift patterns available. We’ll also consider flexible working arrangements across all of our service hours.
* A Rewarding Career: This is more than just a job – it’s a chance to provide compassionate care and be a critical part of a team that makes a genuine difference in people's lives every day.
* All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
* Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering three years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
* We are advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
* We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
* We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
* Oxford is a world‑renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary Care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.
Additional Benefits
* Excellent opportunities for career progression.
* Access to tailored individual and Trust‑wide learning and development.
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service.
* NHS discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers.
* Competitive pension scheme.
* Lease car scheme.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Employee Assistance Programme.
* Mental Health First Aiders.
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply).
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team.
Trust Information
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We actively support anti‑racism, equality, diversity and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under‑represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio‑economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Values
Our values are: 'Caring, safe and excellent'.
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