Exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse. Working within our friendly District Nursing team in Wokingham, your role as a Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse, will be pivotal within the Community Nursing teams to manage a nursing team and a caseload ensuring we deliver a seamless service to patients. The Community Nursing teams are paramount in preventing avoidable hospital admissions and facilitating appropriate earlier discharges into the community

Main duties of the job

• To operate within a Case Management framework and coordinate care for an identified caseload of patients.

• To be responsible for assessing patient need and to plan, implement and evaluate programmes of Nursing Care.

• To identify and plan preventative measures and anticipatory care needs.

• To proactively monitor patients following the review dates set out in the care plans.

• To assess patients with complex clinical need using clinical examination skills, history taking and evaluation skills

• To manage End of Life Care and work in partnership with health, social and voluntary agencies to ensure patients are treated with dignity and respect and to support their families and carers.

• To prepare the patient and their family/carer for changes in the patients' condition and support choice for end of life care.

• To complete Management 1-1's with your team as well as appraisals and ensuring staff are attending clinical supervision

• To submit statistical and contractual monitoring returns within agreed timescales.

• To be responsible for ensuring Mandatory and Statutory training is booked and completed within time scales of yourself and your team.

• To be responsible for booking and taking annual leave as laid down in Trust policy and Standard Operating Procedures and ensuring continuity or service by ensuring your team also take regular annual leave.

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

The must haves for this role

NMC Registration

Minimum 2 years experience of community nursing

• Full Drivers licence and car available for business use for patient visits.

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

Essential

• RGN
• Teaching qualification/or willingness to undertake training
• Evidence of on-going professional development
• Minimum 2 years recent community nursing experience
• Primary Care Experience

KNOWLEDGE AND KEY SKILLS

Essential

• Case Management skills, or willingness to develop
• Ability to effectively manage challenging behaviour and or conflict
• Ability to demonstrate understanding on Aging Well agenda
• Demonstrate leadership skills.
• Team player but able to use own initiative.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills - written and verbal
• Knowledge of current government legislation and recommendations e.g. National Service Frameworks
• Computer literate
• Good organisational and prioritising skills and ability to work under pressure
• Ability to produce reports and statistical information
• Demonstrate effective Chronic Disease management
• Demonstrates flexibility

Desirable

• Able to demonstrate participation in previous audit.

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Demonstrates innovative practice
• You will be required to work shifts from 8.30 am - 7 pm on a rota system and may from time to time, because of service need, be required to work in other Community Nursing Teams across Berkshire. You will be required to work one weekend in every 4
• Full UK licence and use of car for work purposes

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.

371-CHS683-A