Wokingham Community Nursing Service Community

Base at Twyford Surgery (Woodley Team)

We are currently recruiting for Community Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse to join our busy yet rewarding team.

We are seeking to recruit someone with previous experience of working in a Community Nursing team who can provide leadership and support to develop staff in reaching their full potential.

You will be an enthusiastic and experienced nurse, with a warm personality and great people skills. Willing to undertake relevant training, you will have leadership experience and be able to demonstrate innovative practice. Showing effective management skills, you will take responsibility for caseload management of housebound patients with multiple nursing need in the community.

You will be responsible for ensuring high quality evidence-based care for patients, their families, and carers in the community.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for a complex and diverse caseload, actively working to prevent admission to the acute sector and supporting patients in their preferred place of care.
• Responsible for maintaining detailed, accurate and confidential patient records, adhering to Trust policies.
• Leading an effective supportive team, working together to provide clinical advice and support to other staff and patients.
• Responsible for the management of a defined caseload of patients, with continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation, and evaluation of care programmers.
• Accountable for the standards of care and for determining the activity of your team. This will include acting as a role model for staff, sharing learning and developing practice.
• Your working hours would be mostly Mon to Fri, 8.30am to 4.30pm (with approximately one weekend every 4-5 weeks and bank holidays in rotation). The Community Nurse service will also be covering the 4:30 to 19:00 pm shift on a Rota basis.

The3/4 must haves for you to be considered for this role:

• A desire to develop leadership and management skills
• A passion for community nursing, that matches our passion to provide excellent healthcare for our patients within their own home
• Adult nursing qualification along with NMC registration
• A full UK Driving Licence and have use of a car for work purposes

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.

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you'll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:

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

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

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

If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The3/4 must haves for you to be considered for this role:

• A desire to develop leadership and management skills
• A passion for community nursing, that matches our passion to provide excellent healthcare for our patients within their own home
• Adult nursing qualification along with NMC registration
• A full UK Driving Licence and have use of a car for work purposes

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
• Active on the Mentor Register
• Evidence of Leadership & Management development
• Recognised coaching qualification or willing to undertake

Desirable

• Specialist Practitioner qualification (DN Degree, diploma or Certificate in District Nursing
• Non-Medical Prescriber/Nurse Prescriber Qualification

Continuous Professional Development

Essential

• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
• Evidence of a current CPD portfolio

Previous Experience

Essential

• Experience in mentoring and assessing both pre and post reg. nurses in a community setting
• Evidence of clinical leadership within a community nursing environment including
• Mentoring/assessing in practice
• Coaching
• Risk and Incident Reporting (Root Cause Analysis) and supporting teams in learning from findings
• Clinical Leadership course or willingness to undertake
• Able to manage own workload and support others
• Able to conduct courageous conversations and support staff with performance related issues
• Experience of leadership within a team.

Desirable

• Evidence of clinical leadership within a community nursing environment including Recruitment and selection
• Clinical Leadership course or willingness to undertake
• At least 2 years Community Nursing experience at Band 6.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Understanding of the role of Community Nursing
• Able to work autonomously
• Good organisational skills.
• High levels of effective communication, influencing and interpersonal skills.
• Able to motivate self and teams to positively manage change
• Reinforce within the service the need to view users holistically and promote self- care and independence
• Work collaboratively with their counterparts from teams in other provider organisations to develop a seamless service
• 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 support staff to undertake clinical duties, implementing evidence- based practice.
• Ability to influence and problem solve.
• Creative and innovative approach to service development
• Applies policies and procedures effectively to manage risk
• Demonstrates cultural awareness
• Demonstrates flexibility to deal with the needs of unscheduled services and able to prioritise workloads and work under pressure.
• Understands the business needs of the organisation and shares all available information with the service ensuring people understand latest developments and their relevanc
• Knowledge of current DH documents/government legislation and recommendations.
• Willingness to undertake further qualifications and develop expertise in identified areas
• Participation in audit
• Able to utilise IT and various media in order to support data collection

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 with confidence to drive during and in unusual environments with use of car for work purposes.
• A degree of agility and the ability to manoeuvre light to

Employer details

Employer name

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Community Nursing Wokingham

Reading

RG10 9JA

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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