Job summary
BHFT Internal candidates only
Are you an enthusiastic registered nurse with excellent communication skills and the resilience to help us transform our patients' lives? Do you have experience delivering structured, safe and compassionate care?
Our supportive and friendly Intensive Community Rehabilitation Team are looking for a registered nurse to provide patient-centred care and rehabilitation to clients in their own homes.
You'll have a chance to play an integral part in patients' recovery after they are discharged from hospital as well as share your knowledge when managing and mentoring more junior team members.
This rewarding and varied role is based at Upton Hospital in Slough, and will also involve visiting patients in their homes (around Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead). Part-time applications that cover core hours (8am - 4pm four days a week) will be considered.
Main duties of the job
About us
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 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
If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The must haves for this role:
1. Registered Nurse
2. Ability to work flexibly across multiple sites
3. Enthusiastic and committed to providing holistic care to patients
4. Experience in similar setting and passionate about training and mentoring team members
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 youre 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The must haves for this role:
1. Registered Nurse
2. Ability to work flexibly across multiple sites
3. Enthusiastic and committed to providing holistic care to patients
4. Experience in similar setting and passionate about training and mentoring team members
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 youre 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
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
- Educated to degree level or equivalent, your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent
Desirable
- Community Specialist Practitioner qualification
- Management qualification or willingness to work towards
Training
Essential
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Health and safety training
Desirable
- Quality and diversity training
Previous Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience - minimum 1 - 2 years
- Multi -disciplinary team and partnership working
- Coaching and supporting staff
- working proactively with staff in implementing innovative clinical practice
- Recruitment and selection Identification of local health
- Leading staff appraisal, induction, mentorship and preceptorship
Desirable
- Team leadership
- Skill mix review and assessment
- Identification of local health needs and translating this into the people and finances needed to meet the need
- Experience of change management
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- An understanding of the current modernisation agenda for health and social care, with particular reference to the development of services centred around the needs of people living with long term conditions
- Change management in the NHS
- Time management skills
- Awareness of local and national professional industrial relations issues to assist in development of teams
- Ability to recognise own personal style and the impact this has on others
- Self confidence
- Ability to grasp critical issues and distil into clear and manageable priorities
- Strategic awareness and understanding
- Demonstrable leadership skills and understanding of own leadership style
- Commitment to ethical and professional values
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- IT skills
- Team Player
- Presentation skills
Desirable
- HR legal framework in order to advise teams
- Financial frameworks related to CCG's
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel to multiple sites
- Access to own car
- Full driving licence
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse
- Educated to degree level or equivalent, your professional knowledge acquired at degree level will be supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to Masters level equivalent
Desirable
- Community Specialist Practitioner qualification
- Management qualification or willingness to work towards
Training
Essential
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Health and safety training
Desirable
- Quality and diversity training
Previous Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience - minimum 1 - 2 years
- Multi -disciplinary team and partnership working
- Coaching and supporting staff
- working proactively with staff in implementing innovative clinical practice
- Recruitment and selection Identification of local health
- Leading staff appraisal, induction, mentorship and preceptorship
Desirable
- Team leadership
- Skill mix review and assessment
- Identification of local health needs and translating this into the people and finances needed to meet the need
- Experience of change management
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- An understanding of the current modernisation agenda for health and social care, with particular reference to the development of services centred around the needs of people living with long term conditions
- Change management in the NHS
- Time management skills
- Awareness of local and national professional industrial relations issues to assist in development of teams
- Ability to recognise own personal style and the impact this has on others
- Self confidence
- Ability to grasp critical issues and distil into clear and manageable priorities
- Strategic awareness and understanding
- Demonstrable leadership skills and understanding of own leadership style
- Commitment to ethical and professional values
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- IT skills
- Team Player
- Presentation skills
Desirable
- HR legal framework in order to advise teams
- Financial frameworks related to CCG's
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel to multiple sites
- Access to own car
- Full driving licence
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
