Job overview
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 are maintained in Community Nursing Teams.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
- Hold a full UK Driving Licence and have use of a car for work purposes.
- A passion for community nursing, that matches our passion to provide excellent healthcare for patients within their own homes.
- Willing to undertake training to fulfil the requirements of these role.
- Qualified Registered Adult Nurse with NMC Pin
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
Previous Experience
Essential
- Experience in mentoring and assessing both pre and post reg. nurses in a community setting.
- Evidence of clinical leadership within a community nursing environment including;
- Mentoring/assessing in practice
- Coaching
- Risk and Incident Reporting (Root Cause Analysis) and supporting teams in learning from findings
- Clinical Leadership course or willingness to undertake
- Able to manage own workload and support others
- At least 2 years Community Nursing experience at Band 6.
- Experience of leadership within a team.
Desirable
- Recruitment and selection
- Clinical Leadership course or willingness to undertake
- Able to conduct courageous conversations and support staff with performance related issues
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Able to demonstrate recent innovative practice
- Able to work flexibly across service areas to enhance quality of service provision.
- Valid full UK licence with confidence to drive during and in unusual environments with use of car for work purposes
- A degree of agility and the ability to manoeuvre light to moderate loads
- Able to work bank holidays, weekends and unsocial hours to meet service needs
- Able to work in challenging environments.
- Access to a car for work purposes
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Understanding of the role of Community Nursing
- Able to work autonomously
- Good organisational skills.
- High levels of effective communication, influencing and interpersonal skills
- Able to motivate self and teams to positively manage change
- Reinforce within the service the need to view users holistically and promote self- care and independence
- Work collaboratively with their counterparts from teams in other provider organisations to develop a seamless service.
- 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 support staff to undertake clinical duties, implementing evidence- based practice.
- Ability to influence and problem solve.
- Creative and innovative approach to service development
- Applies policies and procedures effectively to manage risk
- Demonstrates cultural awareness
- Demonstrates flexibility to deal with the needs of unscheduled services and able to prioritise workloads and work under pressure.
- Understands the business needs of the organisation and shares all available information with the service ensuring people understand latest developments and their relevance
- Knowledge of current DH documents/government legislation and recommendations
- Willingness to undertake further qualifications and develop expertise in identified areas.
- Participation in audit.
- Able to utilise IT and various media in order to support data collection
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse – Adult
- Specialist Practitioner qualification (DN Degree, diploma or Certificate in District Nursing)
- Active on the Mentor Register
- Evidence of Leadership & Management development
- Recognised coaching qualification or willing to undertake
Desirable
- Non-Medical Prescriber/Nurse Prescriber Qualification
Continuous Professional Development
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
- Evidence of a current CPD portfolio
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This advert is for District Nursing Sister SPQ with Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Bracknell, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse (adult and children) role. The advertised salary is £41,957 - £50,387 per annum (incl of HCAS). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 09 Aug 2026.
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