Community - District Nursing

Buckinghamshire Healthcare Nhs Trust; Southmoor; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

NHS benefits

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Advanced Community Practitioner (Band 7) to lead the Thame Adult Community Healthcare Team (ACHT). A Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing is essential.

You will provide clinical and operational leadership, manage complex caseloads, and drive high standards of patient-centred care across Thame and surrounding areas. The role offers leadership opportunities within an integrated health system, with development

Qualifications

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent competencies in health related subjects.
• Level 1 Registered Nurse
• District Nursing SPQ
• Postgraduate clinical training in elderly, long term conditions, respiratory, cardiac, dementia, rehab, trauma and orthopaedics, end of life.
• Desirable: Independent/supplementary non-medical prescriber.

Responsibilities

• Provide skilled assessment of health needs and complex case management.
• Proactively case find very high intensity users of community and primary care.
• Educate and support MDT members to intensively case manage these patients.
• Intensively case manage own caseload of patients with highly complex health 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 identified patients to be intensively managed to prevent hospital admission.

Skills

Advanced clinical practice

Case management

Leadership

Community nursing

Education

Degree level health subjects

RN Level 1

District Nursing SPQ

Postgraduate clinical training

Non-medical prescriber (Desirable)

Job description

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Advanced Community Practitioner (Band 7) to join the Thame Adult Community Healthcare Team (ACHT).

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.

Main duties of the job

• 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.

Working for our organisation

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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?

• 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.

Person specification

2.EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Essential criteria

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent competencies in health related subjects
• Level 1 Registered Nurse
• Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification equivalent to level 3
• District Nursing SPQ
• Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Elderly, Long Term Conditions, Respiratory Disease, Cardiac Disease, Dementia, Rehabilitation, Trauma and Orthopaedics and End of Life

Desirable criteria

• Independent/supplementary non-medical prescriber

3.EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria

• Experience of working as advanced clinical practitioner/ case management long terms conditions Complex Case manager
• Medicines management at a senior level
• Supporting self-care and enabling independence
• Professional practice and leadership
• Managing care at the end of life
• Experience of interagency and partnership working
• Developing highly specialised programmes of care, providing advice concerning treatment of patients
• Professional practice and leadership
• Managing care at end of life Experience of inter-agency and partnership working

4.SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria

• Highly specialist knowledge in managing patients in the community with complex medical needs, long term/chronic disease management and palliative care
• Highly developed professional knowledge base, supported by educational development and different work environments
• Knowledge of current political drivers, health and social care issues
• Specialist knowledge of governance and risk strategies and their application in a community setting
• Highly developed general management practice, including organisational performance management, finance, human resources and equality and diversity
• Highly specialist clinical and technical skills in managing long term conditions / end of life care
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers and the public
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills Strong IT skills – including Excel and PowerPoint
• Good presentation skills /public speaking
• Ability to plan and manage resources within allocated budget effectively
• Ability to work autonomously without supervision Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
• Patient Focused Responsive and flexible innovative approach to improving patient experience Promotes service improvement
• Maximising Value Seeks opportunity to provide medium – long term value Addresses inefficiencies quickly Evaluates and streamlines ways of working
• Achieving Results Proactive, solutions focused attitude Focuses self and team to deliver results Provides clear goals and objectives Takes responsibility for resolving problems
• Inspirational Leadership Makes things happen Motivates and nurtures talent Celebrates success Manages underperformance Promotes continuous learning
• Working Together Promotes cohesion and team working Works collaboratively with teams within the Trust and across the Local Health Economy Resolves conflict effectively Assertive, honest and open

5.SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

Essential criteria

• Valid and current driving license or able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire

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