Senior Staff Nurse - Unplanned Care

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 15 March 2026

Are you a passionate and caring nurse with at least two years' community experience, looking to develop your clinical and leadership skills within a dynamic community nursing team? If so, we would like to meet you.

A vacancy has arisen within the Unplanned Care Team, which delivers innovative nursing care through rapid responses to patients in their homes. The role involves assessing, planning, managing and evaluating presenting issues, helping to prevent avoidable hospital admissions, and supporting early discharges. You will work closely with the clinical band‑7 to provide daily leadership and contribute to the effective management of the team, while liaising with the wider multidisciplinary team.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual who is ready to meet the challenges of community nursing and provide high-quality care in patients' homes. As part of the Unplanned Care Team, you will work alongside a range of professionals to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

The role operates on a rotational basis as part of a 24/7 service, predominantly nights with day rotation, supported by agile technology to deliver timely, safe and effective care.

The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent clinical skills, strong leadership qualities, and a commitment to delivering high standards of patient care and experience.

Unplanned Services are committed to supporting your ongoing professional development and career aspirations.

Senior staff nurses will have a minimum of 12 months' community nursing experience. The postholder will assess, plan, implement, monitor, and review patient care.

The senior staff nurse role supports the district nurse team leader with the daily service coordination and delivery; and is pivotal in the communication within the team.

To work as part of the community nursing team in unplanned care, ensuring high quality health care is delivered to patients in their own home.

The post holder will be responsible for their own workload and work in collaboration with the wider Community Partnerships and Primary Care Networks.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment of health needs, delivery of care to the practice population, prevention of hospital admissions and facilitation of early discharges from hospital.

The unplanned service is delivered over a seven‑day rota, covering a 24‑hour shift pattern. Working agilely across the service.

Closing Date: 15 March 2026

Shortlisting Date: 16th March 2026

Interview Date: 30th March 2026

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 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.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate's best interest to apply as soon as possible

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

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