Community Nursing Sister/ Charge Nurse inWokingham inWokingham PUBLISHED 17 AUG 2024

Band 6

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust rj459tsL

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Exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse!

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Working within our friendly District Nursing team in Wokingham, your role as a Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse, will be pivotal within the Community Nursing teams to manage a nursing team and a caseload ensuring we deliver a seamless service to patients.

The Community Nursing teams are paramount in preventing avoidable hospital admissions and facilitating appropriate earlier discharges into the community.

To operate within a Case Management framework and coordinate care for an identified caseload of patients.
To be responsible for assessing patient need and to plan, implement and evaluate programmes of Nursing Care.
To identify and plan preventative measures and anticipatory care needs.
To proactively monitor patients following the review dates set out in the care plans.
To assess patients with complex clinical need using clinical examination skills, history taking and evaluation skills
To manage End of Life Care and work in partnership with health, social and voluntary agencies to ensure patients are treated with dignity and respect and to support their families and carers.
To prepare the patient and their family/carer for changes in the patients’ condition and support choice for end of life care.
To complete Management 1-1’s with your team as well as appraisals and ensuring staff are attending clinical supervision
To submit statistical and contractual monitoring returns within agreed timescales.
To be responsible for ensuring Mandatory and Statutory training is booked and completed within time scales of yourself and your team.
To be responsible for booking and taking annual leave as laid down in Trust policy and Standard Operating Procedures and ensuring continuity or service by ensuring your team also take regular annual leave.

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.

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

Our Values At Berkshire Healthcare

Caring for and about you is our top priority
Committed to providing good quality, safe services
Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

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

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Miranda Young Job title: Team Leader Email address: Telephone number:

To operate within a Case Management framework and coordinate care for an identified caseload of patients.
To be responsible for assessing patient need and to plan, implement and evaluate programmes of Nursing Care.
To identify and plan preventative measures and anticipatory care needs.
To proactively monitor patients following the review dates set out in the care plans.
To assess patients with complex clinical need using clinical examination skills, history taking and evaluation skills
To manage End of Life Care and work in partnership with health, social and voluntary agencies to ensure patients are treated with dignity and respect and to support their families and carers.
To prepare the patient and their family/carer for changes in the patients’ condition and support choice for end of life care.
To complete Management 1-1’s with your team as well as appraisals and ensuring staff are attending clinical supervision
To submit statistical and contractual monitoring returns within agreed timescales.
To be responsible for ensuring Mandatory and Statutory training is booked and completed within time scales of yourself and your team.
To be responsible for booking and taking annual leave as laid down in Trust policy and Standard Operating Procedures and ensuring continuity or service by ensuring your team also take regular annual leave.

Caring for and about you is our top priority
Committed to providing good quality, safe services
Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

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