- Provide clinical support and direction to community nursing staff within the locality by sharing their expertise.

- Works alongside the Operational Team Lead to ensure staff are competent in their role and new staff and inducted and supported to reach competency required for their role.

- Implementing evidence-based practice to ensure best patient care.

- The function of the Clinical Lead is to provide enhanced clinical support and expertise to the patients within their locality.

- Hold a Specialist Community Nursing Qualification.

- Hold an Independent Prescribing qualification (V300) or being to undertake within 12 months in post.

- Promoting a service which prevents patients from having inappropriate or unscheduled hospital admissions and helps facilitate hospital discharge.

- Plan, organise and deliver regular staff meetings to share information pathways within the service and wider organisation in a robusttimely manner. e.g. Team brief, CAS alerts, and feedback from senior management meeting

- Investigate complaints and incidents, including Serious Incidents requiring investigation,safeguarding and clinical issues.

- Identify the Root Causes, make recommendations for improvement and disseminate learning to staff, adding areas of concern to the risk register.

Main duties of the job

• Ensure care in their locality is based on sound assessment and care planning processes.

• I.T. literate to support staff transitioning to mobile working.

• Positively represent the service both internally and externally. Communicate highly complex information using informal and formal means to ensure people are fully informed of the service.

• Ensure that appropriate Statutory and mandatory training has been undertaken by all team members.

• Responsible for the retention and recruitment, induction, personal and professional development of staff.

• Monitor clinical supervision, induction, preceptorship and development of staff.

• Exercise leadership and judgment in the management of a Community Nursing Team to ensure good clinical practice and maintain high standards of care, and review staff practice at regular intervals.

• To provide education opportunities and training for all staff and students including pre- and post- registration nursing students.

• To develop district nursing practice in a defined area, developing and using relationships with other primary care team members.

• Ensures that the service is meeting business and performance requirements of the Organisation in-line with service specification, contract and CQUIN.

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 you to be considered for this role:

• Qualified Nurse
• Extensive community experience
• Experience of managing a team
• Experience of change management.

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. We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to call Mark Phillips on 07815485154, who'll be happy to help.

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
• Specialist Community Practice qualification relevant to field of practice. (DN Degree, diploma or Certificate in District Nursing) Teaching and assessing qualification.
• Must be willing to undertake Advanced History taking qualification within 6-12 months of appointment.
• Must be willing to undertake Non-Medical-Prescriber Qualification within 6-12 months of completing advanced history taking.
• Knowledge relating to practice assessor qualification.
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)

Desirable

• Evidence at studying at Masters level.

Previous Experience

Essential

• Experience in teaching and assessing both pre and post reg. nursing.
• Act as clinical expert in the field of community nursing
• Evidence of clinical leadership within a nursing environment.
• Knowledge relating Risk and Incident Reporting (Root Cause Analysis) and supporting teams in learning from findings.
• Able to manage own workload and support others.
• Able to conduct courageous conversations and support staff with performance related issues.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Able to motivate self and teams to manage change.
• Reinforces within the service the need to view users holistically and promote self-care and independence.
• Works collaboratively with their counterparts from teams in other provider organisations to develop a seamless service.
• 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.
• Ability to support staff to undertake clinical duties implementing evidence-based practice.
• Ability to influence and problem solve.
• Demonstrates cultural awareness
• Demonstrates wider and current competencies in clinical skills transferable to community setting.
• Reinforces the need to view users holistically and promote self-care and independence

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 the use of a car for work purposes.

Employer details

Employer name

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Wokingham Hospital

41 Barkham Road

Wokingham

RG41 2RE

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

371-CHS699