Job summary
Community Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse -West Berkshire
An exciting opportunity to join our innovative and successful community nursing team has arisen.
Within the community we are seeing more complex and acute patients than ever before, with increasingly specialist treatment and care being provided by highly skilled staff.
Working within our Community Nursing Team you will support, assess, and treat patients with a variety of health needs, delivering high quality, evidence based practice. You will have a passion and enthusiasm to care for patients in their own homes.
The Community Nursing service offers care to patients in their own homes, 7 days a week, 08.30 - 19.00, inclusive of Bank Holidays.
The service has a wide range of skill mix from Band 3 Healthcare assistants, through to band 7 Community Matrons.
You will have a commitment to providing holistic care to patients in their own homes, be able to work on you own initiative and work well within a team. Key clinical skills include complex wound care, bladder & bowel management, palliative & end of life care, as well as medication administration.
You will receive support into the role through induction, training and beyond. There will be opportunities for personal development and career progression if desired
Main duties of the job
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
The5must haves for you to be considered for this role:
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. For further application tips see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If youre someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The5must haves for you to be considered for this role:
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. For further application tips see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If youre someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse - Adult
- Evidence of Leadership & Management development
Desirable
- Specialist Practitioner qualification (DN Degree, diploma or Certificate in District Nursing)
- Recognised coaching qualification or willing to undertake
Continuous Professional Development
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
Previous Experience
Essential
- Experience in mentoring and assessing both pre and post reg. nurses in a community setting.
- Risk and Incident Reporting (Root Cause Analysis) and supporting teams in learning from findings.
- Able to manage own workload and support others
- To participate in managing the performance of staff and identifying training and development needs ofstaff.
- Experience of leadership within a team.
Desirable
- Evidence of clinical leadership within a community nursing environment
- Clinical Leadership course or willingness to undertake
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Able to work autonomously
- High levels of effective communication, influencing and interpersonal skills.
- Able to motivate self and teams to positively manage change
- Effective role model and motivates staff within the service by being highly visible, approachable and communicative at all levels; utilising effective written, oral and presentation skills.
- Develops strong interpersonal relationships, ensuring that staffs are given the support to develop and grow into roles.
- Ability to influence and problem solve
- Creative and innovative approach to service development
- Applies policies and procedures effectively to manage risk
- Participation in audit
- Able to utilise IT and various media in order to support data collection
Desirable
- Willingness to undertake further qualifications and develop expertise in identified areas.
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Able to work flexibly across service areas to enhance quality of service provision.
- The ability to travel independently to locations across Berkshire and transport equipment required for the role to patients' homes
- Able to work bank holidays, weekends and unsocial hours to meet service needs
- Able to work in challenging environments.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse - Adult
- Evidence of Leadership & Management development
Desirable
- Specialist Practitioner qualification (DN Degree, diploma or Certificate in District Nursing)
- Recognised coaching qualification or willing to undertake
Continuous Professional Development
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
Previous Experience
Essential
- Experience in mentoring and assessing both pre and post reg. nurses in a community setting.
- Risk and Incident Reporting (Root Cause Analysis) and supporting teams in learning from findings.
- Able to manage own workload and support others
- To participate in managing the performance of staff and identifying training and development needs ofstaff.
- Experience of leadership within a team.
Desirable
- Evidence of clinical leadership within a community nursing environment
- Clinical Leadership course or willingness to undertake
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Able to work autonomously
- High levels of effective communication, influencing and interpersonal skills.
- Able to motivate self and teams to positively manage change
- Effective role model and motivates staff within the service by being highly visible, approachable and communicative at all levels; utilising effective written, oral and presentation skills.
- Develops strong interpersonal relationships, ensuring that staffs are given the support to develop and grow into roles.
- Ability to influence and problem solve
- Creative and innovative approach to service development
- Applies policies and procedures effectively to manage risk
- Participation in audit
- Able to utilise IT and various media in order to support data collection
Desirable
- Willingness to undertake further qualifications and develop expertise in identified areas.
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Able to work flexibly across service areas to enhance quality of service provision.
- The ability to travel independently to locations across Berkshire and transport equipment required for the role to patients' homes
- Able to work bank holidays, weekends and unsocial hours to meet service needs
- 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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
