Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing West Berkshire
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CHS1209
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Nursing West Berkshire
- Town
- Thatcham
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/04/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/04/2026
Employer heading
District Nurse/Community Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
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
Main duties of the job
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To operate within a Case Management framework and coordinate care for an identified caseload of patients.
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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
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Identify and plan preventative measures and anticipatory care needs
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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.
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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.
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To participate in the management of a Community Nursing Team to ensure good clinical practice and maintain high standards of care
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Manage workload through appropriate delegation to a skill mix team whilst maintaining overall responsibility for care provision
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 5 “must haves” for you to be considered for this role:
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To be responsible for keeping professionally updated and registered with the NMC.
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Recent Clinical Experience within the speciality
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Demonstrate effective Chronic Disease management
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Ability to effectively manage challenging behaviour and or conflict.
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Car driver with ability and readiness to travel to multiple sites.
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. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse – Adult
- Evidence of Leadership & Management development
Desirable criteria
- Specialist Practitioner qualification (DN Degree, diploma or Certificate in District Nursing)
- Recognised coaching qualification or willing to undertake
Continuous Professional Development
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in mentoring and assessing both pre and post reg. nurses in a community setting.
- Risk and Incident Reporting (Root Cause Analysis) and supporting teams in learning from findings.
- Able to manage own workload and support others
- To participate in managing the performance of staff and identifying training and development needs of staff.
- Experience of leadership within a team.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of clinical leadership within a community nursing environment
- Clinical Leadership course or willingness to undertake
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to work autonomously
- High levels of effective communication, influencing and interpersonal skills.
- Able to motivate self and teams to positively manage change
- Effective role model and motivates staff within the service by being highly visible, approachable and communicative at all levels; utilising effective written, oral and presentation skills.
- Develops strong interpersonal relationships, ensuring that staffs are given the support to develop and grow into roles.
- Ability to influence and problem solve
- Creative and innovative approach to service development
- Applies policies and procedures effectively to manage risk
- Participation in audit
- Able to utilise IT and various media in order to support data collection
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to undertake further qualifications and develop expertise in identified areas.
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to work flexibly across service areas to enhance quality of service provision.
- The ability to travel independently to locations across Berkshire and transport equipment required for the role to patients' homes
- Able to work bank holidays, weekends and unsocial hours to meet service needs
- Able to work in challenging environments.
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
- Sian Banwell
- Job title
- Community Nursing Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07971 314572
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