District/Community Nurses make a difference every day to the lives of people they visit at home and in residential care homes. They provide increasingly complex care for patients and support for family members.

As a Community Nurse you will be adopting a patient-centred holistic approach to care, working in partnership with individuals, families, carers, primary care teams and other professionals in statutory, independent and voluntary sectors, providing a range of interventions and services in the provision of person-centred care, to assist individuals to maximise their quality of life, promote independence and improve their health.

You will be providing nursing care, through identified packages of nursing care, for adults who have short-term needs but who are housebound; or, who have long-term conditions or complex needs from multiple conditions and who would otherwise find it difficult to access regular healthcare; or, who require palliative care at end of life.

The service also has a key part to play in the transitional process of young people whose primary diagnosis is a healthcare need from Children’s Services, into Adult Community Services. Transition into adult service occurs when the young person reaches their 18th Birthday.

Specialist Nurses are experts in a field of long-term disease management, such as palliative care, tissue viability, diabetes, respiratory, heart disease, dementia and palliative care. These nurses participate in the follow-up care of patients, providing specialist advice and reducing the requirement for secondary care services and hospital admissions.