Staff Nurse – Physical Health Community Services
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 14/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a District Nursing Sister within the Windsor and Maidenhead Community Nursing Team. You will manage a clinical caseload, lead a defined community team, and ensure high standards of care. The position involves supporting, assessing, and treating patients in their homes, delivering evidence-based practice. It requires a passion for community nursing and a commitment to patient care.
Key responsibilities
- Maintain required competencies for patient assessment, care planning, and immediate care needs.
- Support staff in completing holistic assessment and reassessment of health and nursing needs.
- Manage a complex and diverse caseload of patients.
- Support teams to provide information to patients, families, and carers for informed choices.
- Provide clinical support, leadership, and guidance to all staff to maintain evidence-based care.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- NMC Registration
- Specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate short courses, training or equivalent experience, in a relevant field.
- Non-medical prescriber qualification or willingness to undertake
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Demonstrable experience of working autonomously to deliver high quality and evidence-based nursing care.
- Experience in providing supervision to junior colleagues and students in the completion of routine nursing and clinical skills.
- Uphold the Trust's values of being caring, committed and working as team through demonstratable examples and experience.
- Proficient use of digital tools and applications including Word, Outlook and patient management systems.
- Ability to travel between multiple Trust sites and non-Trust locations, including patient homes, some of which may not be easily accessible via public transport.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £41,957 – £50,387 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Staff Nurse – Physical Health Community Services
The closing date is 14 September 2026
Job summary
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 caseloa
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