Job summary
- Main area
- CH Urgent Care Management
- Grade
- 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CHS1056
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CH Urgent Care Management
- Town
- Bracknell
- Salary
- £66,653 - £77,094 per annum (incl of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 11/09/2025
Employer heading
Consultant Nurse for Community Inpatients
8b
Job overview
Are you an experienced senior nurse looking to shape and lead high-quality care for older adults in community inpatient settings? We are seeking a Consultant Nurse to join our Berkshire inpatient teams, where your clinical expertise and strategic leadership will make a real difference.
As Consultant Nurse for Community Inpatient wards, you will be responsible for supporting, leading, and developing advanced nursing practice across our physical health rehabilitation wards. Working at a strategic level, you will collaborate closely with consultant geriatricians and multidisciplinary teams including nursing, therapy, and 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 across 7 wards located on 5 sites within Berkshire. You will spend at least 20% of your time in direct autonomous clinical practice, maintaining a strong connection to patient care. 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.
We are looking for a senior nurse with extensive experience in older adult or community inpatient care, strong leadership and strategic thinking skills.
If you are ready to lead, support and drive excellence in community inpatient care, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Advanced and Expert Level Practice
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Lead advanced, autonomous clinical care for older adults living with frailty, including assessment, prescribing, and care planning.
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Maintain expert clinical skills and provide direct patient care (minimum 20% of time).
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Support safe, evidence-based practice across inpatient wards and promote patient-centred care in partnership with families and carers.
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Actively contribute to multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings and apply advanced clinical reasoning in complex cases.
Consultancy and Leadership
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Lead the development and implementation of frailty care models across community inpatient settings.
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Act as a senior clinical leader, offering expert advice, driving quality improvement, and promoting patient safety.
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Represent the service in internal and external reviews, legal proceedings, and trust-wide initiatives.
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Provide compassionate leadership, coaching, and mentorship to support team development and workforce sustainability.
Education and Training
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Create a learning culture that supports professional development for nurses and students.
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Collaborate with education providers to develop and deliver training on frailty, ageing well, and clinical excellence.
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Promote evidence-based practice and enhance the clinical competence of inpatient staff.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
1.Registered Nurse with the NMC
2.Educated to master’s level
3.Teaching qualification with recent experience of delivering training
4.Advanced history taking and physical examination with clinical reasoning qualification
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
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- 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
- Leadership/ Management qualification
Continuous Professional Development
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience within older adult and urgent care
- Extensive experience of managing a team of nurses/AHPs
- Experience of analysis and reporting of data
- Extensive senior nursing 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
- Post registration experience at senior nurse/management level
- Minimum of 3 yrs. practising at an advanced clinical level with older people with complex needs
- Proven experience of implementing major change initiatives in a clinical setting
- Evidence of leading service improvement programmes across services and with MDT's and in partnership with patients
- Evidence of managing budgets and budget setting
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to write for publication
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- UK Driving Licence
- Ability to travel between multiple sites efficiently
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanne Blackburn
- Job title
- Head of Community Frailty Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07919591058
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