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 are 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 be able 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.
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.
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 this role:
Qualified Nurse
* Extensive community experience
Experience of managing a team
Experience of change management.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
* 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)
* Evidence of studying at Masters level
Previous Experience
* 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 to 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
* 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
* 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.
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 (incl of HCAS)
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