District Nursing Sister SPQ

Come and join our CQC rated 'Outstanding' Trust as a District Nursing Sister for the Windsor and Maidenhead Community Nursing Team. As a District Nursing Sister you will manage a clinical caseload under the delegation of the team leader as well as exercising leadership and management of a defined community DN team to ensure good clinical practices and high standards of care are maintained in order to meet service demand. We offer a supportive environment with opportunities for further career development, and a strong in-house training programme. 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.Main duties of the job

• Maintain required competencies, as identified in the Band 6 Community Nurse competency framework, in order to effectively undertake patient assessment, care planning and immediate care needs.
• 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.
• You will manage a complex and diverse caseload of patients
• 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.
• Provide clinical support, leadership, and guidance to all staff to ensure that evidence-based care and clinical practice aremaintainedin Community Nursing Teams.
  
  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