Advanced Community Practitioner - Thame ACHT

The Methodist Church in Britain; Thame; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Independent or supplementary non-med

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is recruiting an Advanced Community Practitioner (Band 7) for the Thame Adult Community Healthcare Team. The post centres on complex nursing case management, leading an integrated team and building systems to support intensive case management across partners.

You will combine clinical leadership with staff development and ensure high standards of patient-centred care within an integrated health system. District Nursing SPQ is essential.

Qualifications

• Degree-level education or equivalent competencies in a health-related subject.
• District Nursing specialist practitioner qualification (SPQ).
• Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification equivalent to level 3.
• Post-graduate clinical training in elderly care, long-term conditions, respiratory, cardiac, dementia, rehabilitation, trauma and orthopaedics or end of life.

Responsibilities

• Provide skilled assessment of health needs and complex nursing case management.
• Intensively manage own caseload of patients with highly complex and unstable health needs.
• Proactively case find high-intensity users and patients at high risk of unplanned hospital admission.
• Educate and support multidisciplinary team members to intensively case manage these patients.
• Develop systems and processes for intensive case management across the multidisciplinary team and health system partners.
• Refer appropriately to other agencies to manage patients proactively, prevent admission, support early discharge and reduce GP contact.
• Provide clinical and operational leadership within the community team.
• Lead and develop staff.
• Manage complex caseloads.
• Support urgent community interventions.
• Drive high standards of patient-centred care.

Skills

Advanced clinical practice

Complex case management

Leadership

Budget and resource planning

Excel

PowerPoint

Inter-agency collaboration

Staff development

Education

Degree-level education

District Nursing SPQ

Supervision/mentorship qualification (level 3)

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

An Advanced Community Practitioner post at Band 7 within the Thame Adult Community Healthcare Team, run by Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. The job centres on complex case management, including identifying high-intensity users and patients at high risk of unplanned admission, and on building the systems that support intensive case management across the multidisciplinary team and partners. The post combines clinical leadership with leading and developing staff in an integrated health system. A District Nursing specialist practitioner qualification is essential.

What the job involves

• Provide skilled assessment of health needs and complex nursing case management
• Intensively case manage own caseload of patients with highly complex and unstable health needs
• Proactively case find high-intensity users and patients at high risk of unplanned hospital admission
• Educate and support multidisciplinary team members to intensively case manage these patients
• Develop systems and processes for intensive case management across the multidisciplinary team and health system partners
• Refer appropriately to other agencies to manage patients proactively, prevent admission, support early discharge and reduce GP contact
• Provide clinical and operational leadership within the community team
• Lead and develop staff
• Manage complex caseloads
• Support urgent community interventions
• Drive high standards of patient-centred care

What’s required

Qualifications

• Degree-level education or equivalent competencies in a health-related subject
• Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification equivalent to level 3
• District Nursing specialist practitioner qualification (SPQ)
• Relevant post-graduate clinical training, such as elderly care, long-term conditions, respiratory, cardiac, dementia, rehabilitation, trauma and orthopaedics or end of life

Registration & licences

• Level 1 registered nurse

Experience

• Advanced clinical practice or complex case management of long-term conditions
• Senior-level medicines management
• Supporting self-care and enabling independence
• Professional practice and leadership
• Managing care at the end of life
• Inter-agency and partnership working

Skills & knowledge

• Specialist knowledge of complex community care, long-term conditions and palliative care
• Specialist governance and risk knowledge in a community setting, and current health and social care policy drivers
• General management including budget and resource planning, finance, HR, and equality and diversity
• Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, and strong Excel and PowerPoint skills

Checks & eligibility

• Valid, current driving licence or ability to travel to locations across Buckinghamshire

Nice to have

• Independent or supplementary non-medical prescriber

What’s offered

• Learning and development opportunities to support career progression
• Flexible and agile working
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• NHS pension
• Access to NHS discount schemes
• Health and wellbeing services