Site District Nursing - Windsor Town Windsor
Salary: £39,205 - £47,084 per annum (incl of HCAS)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 15/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 21/01/2025
Job Overview
Come and join our CQC rated ‘Outstanding’ Trust as a Community Nursing Sister /Charge Nurse for the Windsor and Maidenhead Community Nursing Team.
As a Community Nursing Sister /Charge Nurse, you will manage a clinical caseload under the delegation of the team leader, as well as exercising leadership and management of a defined community DN team to ensure good clinical practices and high standards of care are maintained in order to meet service demand. We offer a supportive environment with opportunities for further career development and a strong in-house training programme.
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.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Maintain required competencies, as identified in the Band 6 Community Nurse competency framework, in order to effectively undertake patient assessment, care planning, and immediate care needs.
2. Support staff to complete holistic assessment and reassessment of all health and nursing needs, ensuring that every patient has an overview of health and nursing need recorded.
3. Manage and be responsible for a clinical caseload under the delegation of the team leader.
4. Support teams to provide information to patients, their families, and carers both formally and informally, so that they can make informed choices about current and future care needs.
5. Provide clinical support, leadership, and guidance to all staff to ensure that evidence-based care and clinical practice are maintained in Community Nursing Teams.
Working for Our Organisation
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
* 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
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
* Hold a full UK Driving Licence and have use of a car for work purposes.
* A passion for community nursing, that matches our passion to provide excellent healthcare for patients within their own homes.
* Willing to undertake training to fulfil the requirements of this role.
For further information about the role, please see the 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.
If you’re 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
* Registered Nurse - Adult
* Active on the mentor register
Continuous Professional Development
* Evidence of continuing professional development
Previous Experience
* Experience of leadership within a team
* Wound care experience including leg ulcers
* Experience at band 5 in a community setting or other relevant practice area
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
* Understanding of Community Nursing
* Ability to work autonomously
* Ability to support staff to undertake clinical duties, develop and implement evidence-based practice
* Good organisational skills
* IT, written, and oral skills including presentations
* In-depth knowledge of leg ulcers aetiology, treatment, and prevention
Additional Requirements
* Valid full UK licence with confidence to drive during social hours and has use of a car for work purposes
These are the values that we live by 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.
Please find attached the behaviour framework that underpins these values for this job role.
At Berkshire Healthcare, we foster an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs.
We welcome talent from all backgrounds and offer guaranteed interviews to disabled applicants and armed forces community members who meet the minimum criteria.
Please note we may close positions before the advertised date.
Once you have applied, please check your email regularly for updates. All appointments are subject to NHS Employment Checks, and false information may result in withdrawal of offers. For information on how we store your information, please review our privacy statement.
No agencies, please.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application Numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
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