Advanced Community Practitioner - Southern ACHT | Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust; Chalfont St. Peter; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Buckinghamshire is seeking a full-time Advanced Community Practitioner Band 7 nurse in Chalfont St. Peter. This position involves managing complex patient needs and working within a multi-disciplinary team. The role offers flexible and agile working opportunities along with generous NHS benefits. Candidates with a Registered Nurse qualification and experience in complex case management are encouraged to apply.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

Access to NHS discount schemes

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Skilled in providing health needs assessments and complex case management.
• Experience in managing patients with unstable health needs.
• Ability to educate multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide skilled assessment of health needs and nursing complex case management.
• Proactively find high intensity users of community healthcare.
• Manage a caseload of patients with complex health needs.

Skills

Complex case management

Health needs assessment

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

Overview

The Adult Community Health Care Teams (Southern ACHT) within Buckinghamshire are delighted to announce there is a position for full-time Advanced Community Practitioner Band 7 nurse within Chalfont's and surrounding villages. It offers a mix of town and countryside working. If you like the faster pace of urban life, then this is the place for you.

Southern District Nursing has a wide range of enthusiastic and committed staff from various background building a service with priorities that reflects high standards in care and changing needs of the service.

As part of an integrated Trust, the ACHT reflects a cohesive approach, with both Primary and Secondary care services that has been designed in response to the changing needs of the local population.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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What we offer

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.

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What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.

Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.

Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

Closing date: Wednesday 24 Sep 2025