Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Community Staff Nurse
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We are looking for motivated and compassionate Band 5 Community Nurses to join our dynamic locality teams. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver high quality person centered nursing care to people in their own homes, supporting them to remain independent, safe and well within their community.
This role is ideal for Qualified and newly qualified nurses, those seeking their first community post, or nurses wanting to broaden their skills and progress with locality teams, within a well structured career pathway.
You will be offered a structured preceptorship and as a community nurse working within the planned care service, you will be providing high quality care for people in their own homes, ranging from long term conditions, to complex and palliative care. You’ll be working on a rotational basis as part of a seven-day service, with the support of agile technology to help you deliver timely, high quality care, with support from specialists across the Trust.
Shift patterns are between the hours of 8am and 9pm, 7 days per week and We have part time vacancies within the North locality teams.
There are lots of development opportunities available to you as a community staff nurse to enable to progress your career and offering promotion to senior nurse or further study to become a qualified specialist practitioner or advanced practitioner. Along with other modes of study to enhance your skills in tissue viability or palliative care as a few examples.
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Applicants must be able to regularly travel extensively across the district to meet the needs and demands of the service, therefore a full UK driving license and access to a car for work is essential
Closing date - 28th August 2026
Shortlisting date– 1st September 2026
Interview date – 8th September 2026
Main Duties
To work as part of the district nursing team to ensure high quality health care is delivered to patients in their own home and/ or clinic setting. To work in collaboration with the wider Primary Health Care team, whilst participating in the assessment of health needs and delivery of care to the practice population. The service is delivered over a 7 day rota and postholders are expected to work flexibly in line with agreed operating hours to cover a 24 hour service
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
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Benefits
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 fantastic 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 also 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 actively encouraged and supported 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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Linda Martin
Job title: Community Team Leader
Email address: Linda.martin@bdct.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07738 985417
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