Community - District Nursing

TN United Kingdom; Thame; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Advanced Community Practitioner to join their team in Thame. This full-time role focuses on managing complex patients in the community, ensuring high-quality care and support. You will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes and prevent hospital admissions. The organization values diversity and offers a supportive work environment with opportunities for professional development. If you are passionate about community health and making a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Generous Annual Leave

Pension Scheme

NHS Discount Schemes

Learning and Development Opportunities

Flexible Working Opportunities

Health and Wellbeing Services

Qualifications

• Degree level education in health-related subjects is essential.
• Experience in advanced clinical practice and case management.

Responsibilities

• Provide skilled assessment of health needs and manage complex cases.
• Educate multidisciplinary teams on intensive case management.

Skills

Patient Assessment

Case Management

Complex Care Management

Interagency Collaboration

Communication Skills

Leadership

Palliative Care

IT Skills

Education

Degree in Health Related Subjects

Level 1 Registered Nurse

Teaching or Mentorship Qualification

District Nursing SPQ

Job description

Thame Adult Community Health Care Team (ACHT) within Buckinghamshire is delighted to announce there is a position for full-time Advanced Community Practitioner Band 7 nurse with a special interest in tissue viability.

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

As part of an integrated Trust, Thame 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.

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?

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

• 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
• Independent/supplementary non-medical prescriber

3.EXPERIENCE

• 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

• 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

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

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

I f you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

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Created on 26/04/2025 by TN United Kingdom