Senior Community Nurse

Overview

Senior Community Nurse role with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust. Closing date: 17 September 2025. This is a predominantly clinical role (90% clinical, 10% non-clinical).

Are you a passionate Community Nurse with at least 12 months of experience? Ready to take the next step in your career?

We are looking for a Senior Community Nurse to join our forward-thinking team. This role focuses on delivering outstanding patient care.

What you'll do

• Assess, plan, implement, and review patient care
• Support caseload management alongside District Nurses
• Share your expertise with patients, carers, students, and colleagues
• Play a key role in team communication and service development

Why join us

• Be part of a collaborative, innovative service
• Work with multidisciplinary teams across Bradford
• Flexible shift patterns between 8am-9pm, 7 days a week
• Make a real impact in your community

Interested? We'd love to hear from you. Apply now or contact us for an informal chat.

Closing - 17 September 2025

Shortlisting - 18 September 2025

Interview - Week commencing 20 September 2025

Main duties of the job

The Senior Community Nurse post is predominantly clinical, with a 90% clinical and 10% non-clinical split. Post holders will use their knowledge, skills and expertise to assess, plan, implement, monitor and review patient care. They will develop competencies and clinical knowledge with patients, carers, colleagues, students and the wider multi-disciplinary team.

Post holders will also support the District Nurse Caseload holder with caseload management and have a key role in communicating important information through the team.

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:

• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a range of benefits including:

• Increase mileage rates for > 3500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more

We are proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are encouraged to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.

Right to Work in the UK

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Prior to appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During employment you must notify your manager promptly of any changes to your right to work status.

If the role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Trust's eligibility criteria, the Trust cannot extend your employment beyond the current visa expiry. The Trust is not responsible for ensuring employment continuity after this period.

As a condition of continuous employment, you must maintain the legal right to work in the United Kingdom throughout your employment with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust. Any change in your right-to-work status, including visa expiration, revocation, or denial of renewal, may affect your eligibility for employment and you must inform your Line Manager promptly and provide necessary verification documents.

Failure to obtain or renew your visa in a timely manner is a breach of employment conditions and may result in termination of employment.

We appreciate your attention to this matter and your commitment to fulfilling this requirement promptly.

Person Specification Qualifications

• 1st level registered Nurse
• 2 years post-registration experience
• Postgraduate qualification in a specialist field or equivalent experience
• Professional degree or diploma in relevant field
• Maintains a portfolio of CPD in line with regulatory body standards
• V300 holder
• Long term condition experience or willingness to undertake
• Community nursing experience

Skills

• Experience of MDT working
• Understanding of Quality and Safety agenda (Clinical Governance)
• Good organisational and presentational skills
• Understanding of Risk Management Issues
• Ability to travel between multiple sites in fulfilment of job role

Experience

• Working experience of complex care management
• Experience of effective multidisciplinary team working
• Experience of budgetary and financial management
• Experience of managing and developing staff from different professions

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service will be required to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

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