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• The function of the Clinical Lead is to provide enhanced clinical support and expertise to the patients within their locality.   
• Provide clinical support and direction to community nursing staff within the locality by sharing their expertise.  
• Implementing evidence based practice to ensure best patient care.  
• Hold a Specialist Community Nursing Qualification.  
• Hold an Independent Prescribing qualification (V300) or being to undertake within 6-12 months in post.  
• Promoting a service which prevents patients from having inappropriate or unscheduled hospital admissions and helps facilitate hospital discharge  
• Works alongside the Operational Team Lead to ensure staff are competent in their role and new staff and inducted and supported to reach competency required for their role.  

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

• Ensure care in their locality is based on sound assessment and care planning processes.  

• I.T. literate to support staff transitioning to mobile working.  

• Positively represent the service both internally and externally. Communicate highly complex information using informal and formal means to ensure people are fully informed of the service.  

• Ensure that appropriate Statutory and mandatory training has been undertaken by all team members.  

• Responsible for the retention and recruitment, induction, personal and professional development of staff.  

• Monitor clinical supervision, induction, preceptorship and development of staff.  

• Exercise leadership and judgment in the management of a Community Nursing Team to ensure good clinical practice and maintain high standards of care, and review staff practice at regular intervals.  

• To provide education opportunities and training for all staff and students including pre- and post- registration nursing students.  

• To develop district nursing practice in a defined area, developing and using relationships with other primary care team members.  

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
• Free parking across Trust sites

Berkshire Healthcare helps people manage their health in their local area, through a range of specialist and community services across the county. We promote independence and quality of life through community and mental health services and aim for seamless delivery of the best care in the right place. We get to know communities and the people in them so we can deliver the best services that meet their health needs.

Our team of 4,300 staff provide specialist mental health and community health services to a population of around 900,000 within Berkshire. We provide healthcare to people in their own homes and from different sites across the county.

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.

Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information.

Please ensure your application is submitted with a valid email address for your referees in order to minimise delays in the recruitment process. Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email, therefore applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly.

Applicants are advised that as a result of the high level of response we receive for some of our vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date.

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites.

No agencies to contact Berkshire Healthcare directly please.