Job summary
Join our CQC-rated Outstanding Trust as a District Nursing Sister within the Windsor and Maidenhead Community Nursing Team and play a vital role in delivering exceptional care to patients in their own homes.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Nurse to combine clinical expertise with leadership responsibilities. Working under the delegation of the Team Leader, you will manage a clinical caseload while providing day-to-day leadership and management to the District Nursing team. You will ensure high standards of patient care, promote evidence-based practice, and support the delivery of safe, effective, and responsive community services.

As part of our supportive Community Nursing Team, you will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care for patients with a wide range of health needs. You will be passionate about delivering person-centred care, enabling patients to remain independent and receive treatment in the comfort of their own homes.

We offer a welcoming environment, excellent training opportunities, and a strong in-house development programme to support your career progression.

You will be a qualified District Nurse with a valid NMC PIN with strong leadership, clinical decision-making and organisational skills and hold a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes

If you are looking for a rewarding leadership opportunity where you can make a real difference in your community, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• 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.
• 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.
• You will manage a complex and diverse caseload of patients
• Support teams to provide information to patients, their families, and carers both formal and informal, so that they can make informed choices about current and future care needs.
• Provide clinical support, leadership, and guidance to all staff to ensure that evidence-based care and clinical practice are maintained in Community Nursing Teams.

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
• 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

Job 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 these role.
• Qualified Registered Adult Nurse with NMC Pin

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, its important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be shortlisted.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Stonewall Proud Employer, 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:Tammy Hartshorne on 07717 695105 or email: tammy.hartshorne@berkshire.nhs.ukwholl be delighted 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.

Applications for this role will be considered on a first come first serve basis and we may close the vacancy early if the right candidate is found

Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential

• Registered Nurse - Adult
• Specialist Practitioner qualification (DN Degree, diploma or Certificate in District Nursing)
• Active on the Mentor Register
• Evidence of Leadership & Management development
• Recognised coaching qualification or willing to undertake

Desirable

• Non-Medical Prescriber/Nurse Prescriber Qualification

Continuous Professional Development
Essential

• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
• Evidence of a current CPD portfolio

Previous Experience
Essential

• Experience in mentoring and assessing both pre and post reg. nurses in a community setting.
• Evidence of clinical leadership within a community nursing environment including;
• Mentoring/assessing in practice
• Coaching
• Risk and Incident Reporting (Root Cause Analysis) and supporting teams in learning from findings
• Clinical Leadership course or willingness to undertake
• Able to manage own workload and support others
• At least 2 years Community Nursing experience at Band 6.
• Experience of leadership within a team.

Desirable

• Recruitment and selection
• Clinical Leadership course or willingness to undertake
• Able to conduct courageous conversations and support staff with performance related issues

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential

• Understanding of the role of Community Nursing
• Able to work autonomously
• Good organisational skills.
• High levels of effective communication, influencing and interpersonal skills
• Able to motivate self and teams to positively manage change
• Reinforce within the service the need to view users holistically and promote self- care and independence
• Work collaboratively with their counterparts from teams in other provider organisations to develop a seamless service.
• Effective role model and motivates staff within the service by being highly visible, approachable and communicative at all levels; utilising effective written, oral and presentation skills.
• Develops strong interpersonal relationships, ensuring that staffs are given the support to develop and grow into roles
• Ability to support staff to undertake clinical duties, implementing evidence- based practice.
• Ability to influence and problem solve.
• Creative and innovative approach to service development
• Applies policies and procedures effectively to manage risk
• Demonstrates cultural awareness
• Demonstrates flexibility to deal with the needs of unscheduled services and able to prioritise workloads and work under pressure.
• Understands the business needs of the organisation and shares all available information with the service ensuring people understand latest developments and their relevance
• Knowledge of current DH documents/government legislation and recommendations
• Willingness to undertake further qualifications and develop expertise in identified areas.
• Participation in audit.
• Able to utilise IT and various media in order to support data collection

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 confidence to drive during and in unusual environments with use of car for work purposes
• A degree of agility and the ability to manoeuvre light to moderate loads
• Able to work bank holidays, weekends and unsocial hours to meet service needs
• Able to work in challenging environments.
• Access to 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Stonewall Proud Employer, 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.