Job summary
- Main area
- District Nursing Bracknell
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CHS802
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- District Nursing - Bracknell
- Town
- Wokingham
- Salary
- £48,270 - £54,931 per annum (incl of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/11/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 11/12/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Development Lead
Band 7
Job overview
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Provide clinical support and direction to community nursing staff within the locality by sharing their expertise.
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Works alongside the Operational Team Lead to ensure staff are competent in their role and new staff and inducted and supported to reach competency required for their role.
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Implementing evidence-based practice to ensure best patient care.
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The function of the Clinical Lead is to provide enhanced clinical support and expertise to the patients within their locality.
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Hold a Specialist Community Nursing Qualification.
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Hold an Independent Prescribing qualification (V300) or being to undertake within 12 months in post.
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Promoting a service which prevents patients from having inappropriate or unscheduled hospital admissions and helps facilitate hospital discharge.
Main duties of the job
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Ensure care in their locality is based on sound assessment and care planning processes.
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I.T. literate to support staff transitioning to mobile working.
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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.
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Ensure that appropriate Statutory and mandatory training has been undertaken by all team members.
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Responsible for the retention and recruitment, induction, personal and professional development of staff.
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Monitor clinical supervision, induction, preceptorship and development of staff.
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
- 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
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Qualified Nurse
- Extensive community experience
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Experience of managing a team
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Experience of change management.
For further information about the role, please see 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.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: 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.
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/Training
Essential criteria
- 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)
Desirable criteria
- Evidence at studying at Masters level
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- 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 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
Essential criteria
- 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
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate recent innovative practice.
- 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.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mark Phillips
- Job title
- Community Nurse Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07815 485154
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