Junior Community Sister / Charge Nurse
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £39,959 to £48,117 a year |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Barnsley, S70 3RD |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 8 Oct 2026 |
| Closing date: | 22 Oct 2026 |
Summary
JOB SUMMARY The post holder will work as a senior member of the Neighbourhood Nursing Team collaborating with the District Nurse and Team Leader to support the provision of clinical leadership within the team. A key feature of the role is to support the proactive management of patients with complex or higher acuity conditions on the Community Caseload. This will include collaborating with other members of the multi-disciplinary team involved in the patients care to establish a person-centred approach to management of health/social care needs, that also promotes self-management. The post holder will be responsible for an identified cohort of patients with higher acuity needs within the District Nursing Team caseload. The post holder will use extended clinical skills and expert knowledge to assess a defined patient group, instigating care plans/treatments based on best available evidence in order to improve health outcomes. KEY RESULT AREAS: 1.1 Clinical Care Demonstrate innovative and specialist skills required for assessment and interpretation of complex patient conditions and determine the appropriate course of action. Holistically assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient complex conditions (including Frailty and Falls assessments and the completion of EPaCCs) to address the identified needs of patients working flexibly and responsively ensuring this is of a high standard. Use appropriate physical and clinical examination skills to undertake the assessment of individuals with complex health care needs or those presenting with more acute illnesses, using a range of evidence-based assessment tools and consultation models. Be responsible for delivering skilled nursing care to patients in the community setting e.g., recording, and monitoring a patients clinical observations, wound care management, palliative care, IV cannulation, intravenous medications, urinary catheterisation, and obtaining bloods for diagnostic purposes etc. Have the flexibility and skill set, to work across planned and crisis pathways including support to the virtual ward pathway, supporting patients to remain well in their own homes, or long-term place of residence preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and reduction in length of hospital inpatient stays facilitating patient flow. Demonstrate a broad range of specialist nursing clinical expertise that supports high quality person-centred care for the caseload population in a variety of community settings. Assess the health-related needs of families and other informal carers, developing therapeutic relationships and using creative problem solving that enables shared decision making for the development of care plans, anticipatory care and delivery of care packages. Work in partnership with individuals, formal and informal carers, and other services to promote the concept of self-care and patient-led care where possible, providing appropriate education and support to maximise the individuals independence and understanding of their condition(s) in achieving their health outcomes. Prescribe from the appropriate formulary relevant to the type of prescribing being undertaken, following assessment of patient need and according to legislative frameworks and local policy. Provide and receive complex, sensitive, or contentious information where motivational, persuasive, empathetic, negotiating and reassurance skills are required. Prioritises own workload and support the District Nurse with allocation and workload management, within agreed objectives deciding when to refer to others as appropriate. Support all staff to use tools to identify changes in health status and maximise the skills of the nursing and support team to support complex assessment where the patient is showing signs of deteriorating health or new symptoms. Develop and implement risk management strategies that take account of peoples views and responsibilities, whilst promoting patient and staff safety and preventing avoidable harm to individuals, carers, and staff. Provide clinical advice and leadership into the Integrated Single Point of Access (SPA) on a rotational basis. 1.2 Leadership and Operational Management Lead, support, clinically supervise, manage, and appraise a mixed skill/discipline team to provide community nursing interventions in a range of settings to meet known and anticipatory needs, appraising those staff reporting directly whilst retaining accountability for the caseload and work of the team. To support the District Nurse/Community Matron in the management of higher acuity patients and leading on the assessment care planning and ongoing management of an identified cohort of patients including Virtual Ward patients. Deputise for the District Nurse and support with case management as required. Enable other team members to appraise, support and develop others in the team and develop strategies for addressing poor practice. Lead, manage, monitor, and analyse clinical caseloads, workload, and team capacity to assure safe staffing levels in care delivery, using effective resource and budgetary management. Ensure effective and efficient use of resources and monitoring, ensuring value for money in the delivery of services within the team. Manage and co-ordinate programmes of care, for individuals with acute and long-term conditions, ensuring their patient journey is seamless between mental and physical health care, hospital, and community services and between primary and community care. Ensure all staff are able to recognise vulnerability of adults and understand their responsibilities and those of other organisations in terms of safeguarding legislation, policies, and procedures. Record all client contacts and activities accurately and contemporaneously maintaining accurate records and statistical returns as required by the Trust via SystmOne and monitor SytmOne usage within your team. Participate in clinical supervision on a regular basis with a designated person. Contribute to the development of clinical guidelines, policies, protocols, and procedures within the service and communicate to relevant personnel. Contribute to the development, collation, monitoring, and evaluation of data relating to service improvement and development, quality assurance, quality improvement and governance, reporting incidents and developments related to district nursing ensuring that learning from these, where appropriate, is disseminated to a wider audience to improve patient care. Participate in recruitment and selection processes. 1.3 Facilitation of Learning Demonstrate the values of high quality, compassionate nursing and support the ongoing development of these values in others. Lead and foster a culture of openness and recognition of duty of candour in which each team member is valued, supported and developed, inspiring a shared purpose to support the delivery of high-quality effective care. Develop effective systems for ongoing supervision of all staff, preceptorship programmes and mentorship. Identify and support the learning needs of individuals and the team in response to personal development needs identified at appraisal or service need. Proactively provide a positive teaching/learning environment to develop the capability and capacity of registered and non-registered staff, working in collaboration with others including CPTs and Practice Learning Facilitators for students. Reflects on and evaluates own practice and identifies areas of development by setting appropriate objectives via appraisal and clinical supervision. Support the District Nurse and Team leader in reporting and investigating complaints and incidents. 1.3 Partnership and Team Working Work in an integrated and partnership way with primary, secondary, social care, the independent and voluntary sector, and others to improve the health and care of individuals, families, and communities, particularly the most vulnerable. Collaborate with other agencies to evaluate public health principles, priorities and practice and implement these policies in the context of the district nursing service and the needs of the local community. Actively contribute to the multi-disciplinary team supporting the patient including communication with external care providers, voluntary support services, and other agencies. Acting as a credible course of information for other agencies/professionals involved on the care as required. For full details of the role please see the supporting documents attached. We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.