Salary Range: £48,270 to £54,931 - depending on experience (Band 7)
Location: Wokingham
We have an exceptional opportunity for an experienced healthcare professional to join our Community Nursing Teams in Wokingham as Community Matron.
As a key member of an integrated community nursing team, you will play a pivotal role in managing a complex caseload of high-risk patients. Using your advanced clinical skills and clinical reasoning, you will deliver high-quality patient-centred care.
You will work with patients to promote shared decision making regarding their care plans, encouraging them to make informed decisions about their health and to self-manage long-term conditions with the aim to prevent hospital admissions.
This is a full-time role within a service that operates 7 days a week. The position includes a requirement to work some late shifts, one weekend every eight weeks, and rotational bank holidays.
If you are a passionate, skilled professional looking to make a significant impact within a supportive and forward-thinking team, we encourage you to apply.
Join us and help shape the future of community healthcare!
Applications for this role will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as vacancies may close early.
Main duties of the job
Your responsibilities will include:
* Working comprehensively to manage complex patients within the community nursing team and alongside key stakeholders, contributing to improved health outcomes and enhanced quality of life for patients with multiple chronic conditions.
* Taking a leading role in the care of patients with complex needs, mentoring junior team members, and supporting the team with scheduled caseload management.
* As the senior nurse, supporting the community nursing team using independent prescribing and advanced assessment skills to provide expert care whilst supporting scheduled caseloads. It is essential that you hold a Nurse Independent and Supplementary Prescriber Qualification.
* Holding a valid UK driving license and having access to a vehicle suitable for work purposes or being able to travel as needed to meet the demands of the service. Please note that some office locations and client sites may not be accessible by public transport.
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
* 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 responsibilities
The must-haves for you to be considered for this role:
* Able to use advanced assessment skills and expert knowledge to perform comprehensive assessments of physical, mental health and social care needs that address the combined impact of all of the patient's conditions in order to improve health outcomes and quality of life.
* To exercise leadership and judgment to ensure good clinical practices and maintain high standards of care and review these at regular intervals.
* Able to identify and plan preventative measures and anticipatory care needs.
* Have a high level of clinical knowledge and clinical reasoning skills.
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. For further application tips see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If you're someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare! We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don't hesitate to call: Jo Murray on 07717853161, who'll be delighted to help. 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.
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.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
* Must have IP Qualification
* Registered Nurse (Adult)
* Leadership / Teaching qualification
Training
* Evidence of relevant continual professional development
Previous Experience
* Experience of working in a variety of settings (hospital, primary and community)
* Operational experience of supporting people with long-term conditions
* Experience of leading change
* Experience of working as a change agent to improve patient care
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
* Advanced physical examination and assessment skills
* Health coaching skills, or willingness to develop
* Excellent organisational and leadership skills
* Ability to prioritise and co-ordinate workload
* Excellent problem-solving skills to identify and resolve clinical and whole system issues
* Ability to interpret and analyse complex data from numerous sources, to inform decisions
* Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
* Ability to effectively delegate activities to appropriate staff
* Ability to effectively negotiate on patient management
* Ability to engage and develop partnership working with all those involved in the management of long-term conditions
* Ability to work as a member of a team
* Ability to work unsupervised and manage own caseload
* Ability to be goal and outcome focused when faced with opposition or when working under conditions of pressure
* Ability to use IM&T support systems
* Ability to translate best practice evidence and national policy into practice
* Knowledge of current National Service Frameworks and the NHS England long-term conditions strategy
Additional Requirements
* Ability to travel to, and work from multiple sites
* Service covers 08:00-19:00 hours, 365 days per year - shift patterns will include some weekends, late shifts, and bank holidays.
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.
£48,270 to £54,931 a year per annum (inc. of HCAS)
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