Staff Nurse - Physical Health Community Services

BERKSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Reading; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

27 days' annual leave

NHS pension

Learning and career development

Cycle to Work

Wellbeing tools

Retail discounts

Staff networks

Maternity/paternity leave

Free parking

Job summary

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Community Staff Nurse to join the West Berkshire Community Nursing team. You will assess, treat and support patients in their homes, delivering high quality, evidence-based care within a collaborative team.

Applicants should be a Registered Nurse with strong community experience, capable of managing complex conditions, promoting self-care, and working independently while coordinating with colleagues to plan and evaluate care plans.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with community health experience and current NMC registration.
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care in patients' homes.
• Commitment to evidence-based practice and holistic, patient-centred care.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients and carers to plan holistic nursing care.
• Undertake first visits and respond to immediate needs.
• Support students and new staff as a supervisor/trainer.
• Promote self-care and health promotion within care plans.
• Deliver care using specialist equipment, including palliative and end-of-life care.
• Provide complex wound care, bladder/bowel management, and medication administration.

Skills

Assessment skills

Wound care

Medication management

Palliative care

Holistic care

Teamwork

Education

Registered Nurse (NMC)

Job description

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.
• To be 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.
• To undertake practice assessor and supervisor training support students and new staff to the service.
• Provide care according to the available evidence of best practice and the support of others in the development of evidence based practice.
• To be actively involved in promoting self-care for patients and building Health Promotion into care.
• To develop and participate in planned teaching programmes for patients.
• To demonstrate knowledge and skills including assessment, reassessment, medication management, bladder bowel care, tissue viability, care, use and administration of treatment using specialist equipment, palliative care and symptom control, managing acute episodes of care, reducing hospital admissions, as per band 5 competency document.
• To provide care to people with long term conditions undertaking reviews in accordance with the individual patient care plan and with support of more experienced colleagues as required. 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 sites