District Nurse​/Junior Sister Community

Overview

Go back East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 25 March 2026

Are you an experienced band 5 Nurse wishing to explore your potential for career progression?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a fixed term full-time Band 6 District Nurse or Junior Sister post until February 2027 working within the IP2 Ipswich West Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT). The team is co-located with its Ipswich East INT at Constantine House at the centre of Ipswich. The Ipswich West INT is working towards a fully integrated model of health and social care.

The team consists of District Nurses/Junior Sisters, Community Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Assistant Practitioners, Generic Workers, and Social Workers. The team is overseen by an INT manager, supported by a Care Coordinator and Administrator.

This post gives an experienced band 5 community nurse the opportunity to expand their skills in complex case management and gain skills in caseload management and leading a team of community nurses, nursing associates and generic workers. We are looking for a hard-working individual, who can be flexible and dynamic and adapt to changes within a busy team. The individual would have a keen interest in working within a deprived area of Ipswich and have effective communication skills in promoting self-care, independence and engagement in health promotion.

We promote compassionate leadership and would be keen for the individual to apply this leadership style within the team and in managing their caseload.

Your duties will include shared management of a community nursing team with other District Nurse and Junior Sisters.

Other duties will include triage, caseload management, wound care, leg ulcer management, pressure area care, palliative care, venepuncture, attending GP multi-disciplinary team meetings, PICC line care, male, female, supra-pubic catheterisation, ordering equipment, support and mentoring of students and involvement in link roles such as tissue viability.

We offer a variety of training to up skill and maintain your clinical skills.

Due to this post being a community post it is essential for the successful candidate to be able to drive from day one of employment.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what s widely regarded as the world s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

• Registered Nurse level 1
• Assessor/mentorship preparation; ENB 998 or equivalent
• Current NMC registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience of working within an NHS community service.
• Independent/supplementary prescribing…