Advanced Community Practitioner

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST; Thame; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in Thame is seeking an experienced District Nurse to provide clinical and operational leadership within a supportive community team. You will lead and develop staff, manage highly complex caseloads, support urgent community interventions, and drive high standards of patient-centred care across Thame and the surrounding areas.

If you are committed to excellence in community nursing, this post offers leadership development, collaboration with multi-disciplinary

Qualifications

• Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing is essential.
• Experience leading community nursing teams.
• Ability to manage complex caseloads and multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide skilled assessment of health needs and complex case management.
• Proactively identify high intensity users of community and primary care.
• Educate and support multi-disciplinary teams to intensively case manage identified patients.
• Intensively manage own caseload of patients with highly complex needs.
• Develop systems and processes to support intensive case management within the MDT and with partners across the health system.
• Collaborate with other agencies to enable intensive management to prevent hospital admission and support early discharge.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Staff development

Case management

Community nursing

Education

District Nursing Specialist Practitioner qualification

Job description

A Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing is essential for this post. We are seeking a motivated and experienced District Nurse to provide clinical and operational leadership within a supportive community team. Working across an integrated healthcare system, you will lead and develop staff, manage complex caseloads, support urgent community interventions, and drive high standards of patient-centred care. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified District Nurse looking to further develop their leadership career while making a positive difference to patients, families, and communities across Thame and the surrounding areas. If you are committed to excellence, passionate about community nursing, and motivated to make a positive difference to patients, families, and colleagues, we would love to hear from you. Join us and help shape the future of community nursing services in Thame and the surrounding areas.

• Provide skilled, professional assessment of health needs and relevant nursing complex case management
• To proactively case find patients who are very high intensity users of community and primary healthcare and / or are at high risk of unplanned admission to hospital
• To educate and support the members of the multi-disciplinary teams to intensively case manage these patients.
• To intensively case manage their own caseload of patients with highly complex and unstable health needs
• Develop systems and processes to support intensive case management within the multi-disciplinary team and with partners across the health system.
• To work with and refer appropriately to other agencies to enable identified patients to be intensively managed in a pro-active way with the aim of preventing hospital admission, supporting early discharge and reduce GP contact.

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
• A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.

What do we stand for?

• Ourvisionis to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Ourmissionis to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Ourcarevalues are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.