Consultant Nurse for Community Nursing

NHS; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 66,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health trust in Bracknell is seeking a Consultant Nurse to lead clinical excellence in community nursing. The role involves advanced practice and strategic leadership to enhance patient care. Candidates should be registered nurses with strong clinical and educational backgrounds. This position offers a competitive salary and a chance to make a significant impact in community health services.

Benefits

Flexible working options

27 days annual leave

Excellent career development opportunities

Cycle to work scheme

Access to wellbeing tools and services

Retail and restaurant discounts

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with NMC registration.
• Teaching qualification with recent experience.
• Advanced history taking and clinical reasoning required.
• Non-medical prescribing, minimum of 6 years post-registration.
• Experience working with adults with complex needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead advanced clinical care for adults with frailty.
• Support multi-disciplinary team meetings.
• Champion best practice through audit and research.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to team members.

Skills

Advanced leadership

Clinical reasoning

Effective communication

Community nursing experience

Teaching and training

Education

Registered Nurse

Master's degree

Teaching qualification

Advanced History Taking

Non-medical prescribing

Job description

Are you an experienced senior nurse looking to shape and lead high-quality care for adults in community nursing settings? We are seeking a Consultant Nurse to join our Berkshire Community Nursing Service, where your clinical expertise and strategic leadership will make a real difference.

As Consultant Nurse for Community Nursing, you will be responsible for supporting, leading, and developing advanced nursing practice across our physical health Community nursing services. Working at a strategic level, you will collaborate closely with our Primary Care colleagues and multidisciplinary teams including nursing, therapy, and Acute medical colleagues whilst delivering safe, effective, and person-centred care.

You will lead on clinical innovation and excellence in patient care, provide strategic and operational leadership, and work flexibly within Community Nursing teams in Berkshire. You will spend at least 50% of your time in direct autonomous clinical practice, with clinical responsibility for a defined cohort of patients and their carers, and will provide leadership for clinicians within the Community Nursing service. You will also champion best practice through audit, research, the application of national policy, and act as a key clinical leader and role model for staff across the service.

Main duties of the job

Advanced and Expert Level Practice

• Lead advanced, autonomous clinical care for adults living with frailty, including assessment, prescribing, and care planning.
• Maintain expert clinical skills and provide direct patient care (minimum 50% of time).
• Support safe, evidence-based practice across inpatient wards and promote patient-centred care in partnership with families and carers.
• Actively contribute to multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings and apply advanced clinical reasoning in complex cases.

Consultancy and Leadership

• Lead the development and implementation of frailty care models across community nursing settings.
• Act as a senior clinical leader, offering expert advice, driving quality improvement, and promoting patient safety.
• Represent the service in internal and external reviews, legal proceedings, and trust-wide initiatives.
• Provide compassionate leadership, coaching, and mentorship to support team development and workforce sustainability.

Education and Training

• Create a learning culture that supports professional development for nurses and students.
• Collaborate with education providers to develop and deliver training on frailty, ageing well, and clinical excellence.
• Promote evidence-based practice and enhance the clinical competence of inpatient staff.

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we are committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we are 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
• 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

We have identified that this is a role where we have underrepresentation of ethnically diverse colleagues. As part of our commitment to inclusion and Unity Against Racism we offer guaranteed interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria and identify as: Asian or Asian British, Black or Black British, Mixed and 'Other' Ethnic Groups.

Job responsibilities

The must haves for this role:

• Registered Nurse with the NMC
• Teaching qualification with recent experience of delivering training
• Advanced history taking and physical examination with clinical reasoning qualification
• Non-medical prescribing
• Previous experience within older adult care
• Advanced and effective leadership/communication skills, written & verbal
• UK driving licence

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.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications/Training

• Registered Nurse
• Masters and /or other higher degree
• Teaching qualification with recent experience of delivering training/seminars
• Advanced History Taking and Physical Examination with Clinical Reasoning qualification
• Non-medical prescribing
• PhD
• Post graduate diploma in managing patients with long term conditions

Continuous Professional Development

• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Previous Experience

• Recent experience within community nursing
• Extensive experience of managing a team of nurses/AHPs
• Experience of analysis and reporting of data
• Extensive senior leadership experience
• Audit and research experience
• Working and liaising with external partners
• Experience of policy and protocol development and production
• Engaging with senior managers and directors
• Provide evidence of presenting and working with external professional networks
• Minimum of 6 yrs. post registration at senior nurse/management level
• Minimum of 3 yrs. practising at an advanced clinical level with adults with complex needs
• Proven experience of implementing major change initiatives in a clinical setting
• Evidence of leading service improvement programmes across services and with MDTs and in partnership with patients
• Evidence of managing budgets and budget setting

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Advanced and effective leadership/communication skills, written and verbal, to enable communication with a wide range of stakeholders for clinical purposes, negotiation, leadership and influence
• Ability to lead and manage system wide change
• Breadth of knowledge of national and local policies specific to the frailty agenda and the NHS long-term plan
• Detailed knowledge of current clinical professional issues relevant to the field
• Evidence of driving leading edge clinical practice, supported by advanced theoretical & practical knowledge
• Ability to write for publication
• Demonstrate transformational leadership ability
• Ability to handle and analyse complex information and deliver key messages to a range of staff including experienced clinicians and managers
• Ability to manage resources; this includes involvement in workforce planning and staff budgeting
• Evidence of advanced clinical skills
• Able to respond to and prioritise highly complex and unpredictable health presentations and ensure effective interventions are actioned
• Flexible and adaptable in order to manage competing priorities
• Excellent IT skills for data management, reporting, presentation and communication
• Self motivated and able to organise a large and varied work programme
• Knowledge of Quality Improvement methodologies and experience of successful delivery in practice

Additional Requirements

• UK Driving Licence
• Daily use of a car
• Ability to travel between multiple sites efficiently
• Ability to work as a team as well as autonomously
• Resilience under situational pressure, professional challenges and change
• Demonstrates a desire to explore innovative new ways of delivering services

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Community Nursing and Specialist Services

£66,653 to £77,094 per annum (incl HCA)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

371-CHS1081

Job locations

Community Nursing and Specialist Services