About this role
Job summary
Key Responsibilities
- Provide expert clinical support and leadership to community nursing staff working within the Windsor & Maidenhead Community Nursing Service.
- This role will consist of a minimum of 60% daily clinical patient facing activity.
- To work flexibly over 7 days to meet the changing needs of the One Community Nursing service.
- Collaborate closely with the Operational Team Lead to ensure staff competency, including overseeing induction processes and ongoing clinical development.
- Champion evidence-based practice to ensure delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective patient care.
- Act as a senior clinical resource, offering enhanced support and guidance for complex patient cases.
- Promote and support initiatives aimed at reducing inappropriate or unscheduled hospital admissions and facilitating timely hospital discharges.
Qualifications & Experience
- Specialist District Nursing Qualification (DN SPQ).
Main duties of the job
Clinical Governance & Care Quality
- Ensure care delivery is based on sound clinical assessment and robust care planning processes.
- Monitor and review staff practice regularly to maintain high standards of clinical care.
- Investigate complaints, safeguarding concerns, and serious incidents, identifying root causes and implementing improvements.
- Add areas of concern to the risk register and disseminate learning across the team
Leadership & Team Management
- Exercise leadership and sound judgment in supporting the management team.
- Support recruitment and retention strategies to build a resilient and skilled workforce.
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 description
Job responsibilities
The must haves for this role
- District Nursing Specialist Practice Qualification (DNSPQ)
- Extensive community nursing experience
- Advanced History Taking and Independent Prescribing qualification (V300) or has booked on to complete within 18month.
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: Saiyad Allymamod on 07930914721 or email [email protected] wholl 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.
Person Specification
Education, qualifications or training
Essential
- NMC registered Nurse
- District Nursing Specialist qualification (DNSPQ).
- Advanced History Taking and Non-Medical-Prescriber Qualification or booked on to complete within 18month.
- Active on the Mentor Register
Desirable
- Evidence at studying at master's level
Continuous Professional Development
Essential
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Previous Experience
Essential
- Clinical leadership within a community environment
- Community Nursing experience
- Teaching/assessing in practice
- Able to conduct courageous conversations and support staff with performance related issues.
Desirable
- Coaching
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Essential
- Expert specialist Clinical skills
- Creative and innovative approach to service development
- Demonstrates flexibility to deal with the needs of unscheduled services and able to prioritise workloads and work under pressure.
- Able to motivate self and Teams to manage change.
- Ability to support staff to undertake clinical duties implementing evidence-based practice.
- Works collaboratively with their counterparts from teams in other provider organisations to develop a seamless service.
- Highly visible, approachable and able to motivate others.
- Ability to communicate at all levels; utilising effective written, oral and presentation skills
- Reinforces the need to view users holistically and promote self-care and independence.
- 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.
- Applies policies and procedures effectively to manage risk.
- Manage performance through the application of HR processes.
- Willingness to undertake further qualifications and develop expertise in identified areas.
- Participation and leading in audit.
- Able to utilise IT and various media to support data collection and produce databases, spread sheets and reports
Desirable
- Knowledge of current DH documents/government legislation and recommendations.
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 and access to a car for work purposes.
- Able to travel across Berkshire.
- Able to work bank Holidays, weekends and unsocial hours to meet service need
- Able to work in challenging environments
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Address
District Nursing - Windsor, St. Marks Hospital, 112 St Marks Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 6DU
112 St Marks Road
Maidenhead
SL6 6DU
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.berkshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)