Community Staff Nurse

An exciting career opportunity has arisen for a Community Staff Nurse to join the West Berkshire Community Nursing team. 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., To work in conjunction with the Team Leader/ Community Nursing Band 6/ Community Matron and all staff within the team to holistically assess the needs of patients and carers, and to work in partnership with the patient and family to plan, implement and evaluate programmes of nursing care. Tobe able to undertake first visits and take any immediate action, reporting back to the Team Leader/Community Nursing Band 6/Community Matron for further discussion and/or assessment. Toundertake practice assessor and supervisor training support students andnew staffto the service. Provide care according to the available evidence of best practice and the support of others in the development ofevidence basedpractice. Tobe actively involved in promoting self-care for patients and building Health Promotion into care. Todevelop andparticipatein planned teaching programmes for patients. Todemonstrate knowledge and skills including assessment, reassessment, medication management, bladder bowel care, tissue viability, care,useand administration of treatment using specialist equipment, palliativecareand symptom control, managing acute episodes of care, reducing hospital admissions, as per band 5 competency document. Toprovide care to people with long term conditions undertaking reviewsin accordance withthe individual patient care plan and with support of more experienced colleagues asrequired.

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.

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 site