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Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Out of Hours Clinical Lead

The closing date is 21 January 2026

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Job summary

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide expert clinical support and leadership to community nursing staff working within the Berkshire Out of Hours service.
  • Collaborate closely with the Operational Out of Hours Team Lead to ensure staff competency, including overseeing induction processes and ongoing clinical development.
  • Champion evidence-based practice to ensure delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective patient care.
  • Act as a senior clinical resource, offering enhanced support and guidance for complex patient cases during out-of-hours periods.
  • Promote and support initiatives aimed at reducing inappropriate or unscheduled hospital admissions and facilitating timely hospital discharges.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Specialist Community Nursing Qualification (DN SPQ).
  • Advanced History Taking qualification.
  • Independent Prescribing qualification (V300) or nearing completion.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Governance & Care Quality:

  • Ensure care delivery is based on sound clinical assessment and robust care planning processes.
  • Monitor and review staff practice regularly to maintainhigh standardsof clinical care.
  • Investigate complaints, safeguarding concerns, and serious incidents, identifyingroot causes and implementing improvements.
  • Add areas of concern to the risk register and disseminate learning across the team.

Leadership & Team Management:

  • Exercise leadership and sound judgment insupportingthemanagementofthe Out of Hours Community Nursing Team.
  • Support recruitment and retention strategies to build a resilient and skilled workforce.
  • Lead on staff induction, personal development, and professional growth.
  • Monitor and support clinical supervision, preceptorship, and competency development

Training & Education:

  • Ensure all team members completerequiredstatutory and mandatory training.
  • Provide education and training opportunities for staff and students, including pre- and post-registration nursing students.
  • Develop community nursing practice in a defined area through collaboration with primary care team members.

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

  • Caring for and about you is our top priority
  • Committed to providing good quality, safe services
  • Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

  • Flexible working options to support work-life balance
  • 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
  • Generous NHS pension scheme
  • Excellent learning and career development opportunities
  • 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
  • Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
  • Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
  • Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
  • Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
  • Free parking across Trust sites

Details

Date posted

14 January 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£50,008 to £56,908 a year per annum (inc. of HCAS)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

371-CHS1142

Job locations

St Marks Hospital

112 St Marks Road

Wokingham

RG41 2RE


Job description

Job responsibilities

The must haves for you to be considered for this role:

  • Qualified Specialist Practitioner DN
  • Extensive community experience
  • Must have Advance History Taking Qualification
  • Ability to drive across multiple sites in the out of hours.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

  • We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The must haves for you to be considered for this role:

  • Qualified Specialist Practitioner DN
  • Extensive community experience
  • Must have Advance History Taking Qualification
  • Ability to drive across multiple sites in the out of hours.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

  • We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications/Training

Essential

  • NMC registered Nurse
  • District Nursing Specialist qualification (DNSPQ)
  • MUST have Advance History Taking
  • Non-Medical-Prescriber Qualification or nearing completion of V300
  • Active on the Mentor Register

Desirable

  • Evidence at studying at master's level

Continuous Professional Development

Essential

  • Evidence of continuous professional development

Previous Experience

Essential

  • Clinical leadership within a community environment
  • Community Nursing experience
  • Teaching/assessing in practice
  • Able to conduct courageous conversations and support staff with performance related issues

Desirable

  • Coaching

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • Expert specialist Clinical skills
  • Creative and innovative approach to service development
  • Demonstrates flexibility to deal with the needs of unscheduled services and able to prioritise workloads and work under pressure.
  • Able to motivate self and Teams to manage change
  • Ability to support staff to undertake clinical duties implementing evidence-based practice
  • Ability to influence and problem solve
  • Works collaboratively with their counterparts from teams in other provider organisations to develop a seamless service
  • Highly visible, approachable and able to motivate others
  • Ability to communicate at all levels; utilising effective written, oral and presentation skills
  • Reinforces the need to view users holistically and promote self-care and independence
  • Develops strong interpersonal relationships, ensuring that staff are given the opportunity to develop and grow into roles; promoting succession planning, to meet the needs of the service
  • Applies policies and procedures effectively to manage risk
  • Manage performance through the application of HR processes.
  • Understands the business needs of the organisation and shares all available information with their team ensuring people understand latest developments and relevance to their service
  • Knowledge of current DH documents/government legislation and recommendations
  • Willingness to undertake further qualifications and develop expertise in identified areas
  • Participation and leading in audit
  • Able to utilise IT and various media to support data collection and produce databases, spread sheets and reports

Additional Requirements

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate recent innovative practice
  • Able to work flexibly across service areas to enhance quality of service provision
  • Valid full UK licence and access to a car for work purposes
  • Able to travel across Berkshire
  • Able to work bank Holidays, weekends and unsocial hours to meet service need
  • Able to work in challenging environments
Person Specification

Education/Qualifications/Training

Essential

  • NMC registered Nurse
  • District Nursing Specialist qualification (DNSPQ)
  • MUST have Advance History Taking
  • Non-Medical-Prescriber Qualification or nearing completion of V300
  • Active on the Mentor Register

Desirable

  • Evidence at studying at master's level

Continuous Professional Development

Essential

  • Evidence of continuous professional development

Previous Experience

Essential

  • Clinical leadership within a community environment
  • Community Nursing experience
  • Teaching/assessing in practice
  • Able to conduct courageous conversations and support staff with performance related issues

Desirable

  • Coaching

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • Expert specialist Clinical skills
  • Creative and innovative approach to service development
  • Demonstrates flexibility to deal with the needs of unscheduled services and able to prioritise workloads and work under pressure.
  • Able to motivate self and Teams to manage change
  • Ability to support staff to undertake clinical duties implementing evidence-based practice
  • Ability to influence and problem solve
  • Works collaboratively with their counterparts from teams in other provider organisations to develop a seamless service
  • Highly visible, approachable and able to motivate others
  • Ability to communicate at all levels; utilising effective written, oral and presentation skills
  • Reinforces the need to view users holistically and promote self-care and independence
  • Develops strong interpersonal relationships, ensuring that staff are given the opportunity to develop and grow into roles; promoting succession planning, to meet the needs of the service
  • Applies policies and procedures effectively to manage risk
  • Manage performance through the application of HR processes.
  • Understands the business needs of the organisation and shares all available information with their team ensuring people understand latest developments and relevance to their service
  • Knowledge of current DH documents/government legislation and recommendations
  • Willingness to undertake further qualifications and develop expertise in identified areas
  • Participation and leading in audit
  • Able to utilise IT and various media to support data collection and produce databases, spread sheets and reports

Additional Requirements

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate recent innovative practice
  • Able to work flexibly across service areas to enhance quality of service provision
  • Valid full UK licence and access to a car for work purposes
  • Able to travel across Berkshire
  • Able to work bank Holidays, weekends and unsocial hours to meet service need
  • Able to work in challenging environments

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

St Marks Hospital

112 St Marks Road

Wokingham

RG41 2RE


Employer's website

https://www.berkshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

St Marks Hospital

112 St Marks Road

Wokingham

RG41 2RE


Employer's website

https://www.berkshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Community Nursing Manager

Saiyad Allymamod

saiyad.allymamod@berkshire.nhs.uk

07930914721

Details

Date posted

14 January 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£50,008 to £56,908 a year per annum (inc. of HCAS)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

371-CHS1142

Job locations

St Marks Hospital

112 St Marks Road

Wokingham

RG41 2RE


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