Community Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse

at  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Community Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse – West Berkshire
An exciting opportunity to join our innovative and successful community nursing team has arisen.
Within the community we are seeing more complex and acute patients than ever before, with increasingly specialist treatment and care being provided by highly skilled staff.
Working within our Community Nursing Team you will support, assess, and treat patients with a variety of health needs, delivering high quality, evidence based practice. You will have a passion and enthusiasm to care for patients in their own homes.
The Community Nursing service offers care to patients in their own homes, 7 days a week, 08.30 – 19.00, inclusive of Bank Holidays.
The service has a wide range of skill mix from Band 3 Healthcare assistants, through to band 7 Community Matrons.
You will have a commitment to providing holistic care to patients in their own homes, be able to work on you own initiative and work well within a team. Key clinical skills include complex wound care, bladder & bowel management, palliative & end of life care, as well as medication administration.
You will receive support into the role through induction, training and beyond. There will be opportunities for personal development and career progression if desired.
To operate within a Case Management framework and coordinate care for an identified caseload of patients.
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
Identify and plan preventative measures and anticipatory care needs
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.
Work in partnership with the Community Matrons, Specialist Nurses and Social Care to support patients to self-manage their condition where possible and to teach patients and carers accordingly.
To participate in the management of a Community Nursing Team to ensure good clinical practice and maintain high standards of care
Manage workload through appropriate delegation to a skill mix team whilst maintaining overall responsibility for care provision
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.
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