Community Staff Nurse - Thame

NHS; Thame; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Community Nurse in Thame/Princes Risborough. Join a newly formed team dedicated to providing high-quality nursing services. The role involves working with complex patients, medication management, and collaboration with healthcare professionals.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working opportunities

NHS benefits such as generous annual leave

Qualifications

• Post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas.
• Committed to professional development.

Responsibilities

• Work within a locality team to meet complex patient needs.
• Medication administration and end-of-life care.

Skills

Effective communication

Ability to work under pressure

Self-motivated

Education

Registered Nurse

Tools

RIO

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an aspiring individual to develop their career in the specialised area of District nursing. This opportunity is now available in the Thame/Princes Risborough area to become a Community Nurse within a newly formed team. We are welcoming highly motivated and effective team players, committed to providing a high-quality nursing service within the District Nursing field. We are able to offer a full skills development and preceptorship programme.

We are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. All levels of experience are welcome in community nursing. Whether you are newly qualified or looking for a change in direction, we would welcome your application for this exciting opportunity to join the community nursing workforce. As a community nurse, you would be supported to develop into an autonomous practitioner; nursing patients with multiple complex healthcare needs in their own homes.

Main duties of the job

Community nursing is a specialised area of practice. As a Community Staff Nurse, you will work within a locality team of District Nurse Team Leaders, Community Staff Nurses, Therapists, Assistant Practitioners, and Healthcare Assistants, to meet the needs of complex patients in the community and avoid admissions to acute settings. This includes medication administration, end-of-life care, managing deteriorating patients, complex and simple wound care including negative pressure wound therapy and compression therapy, venipuncture, utilising advanced assessment skills and clinical nursing skills. We nurse people with a variety of conditions in a holistic manner in their own homes and in residential care settings. Community nurses work in close partnership with social care and other primary healthcare professionals such as GPs, Community Therapies, and specialised services like Tissue Viability, Diabetes, and Heart Failure.

About us

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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• Learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• Flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside NHS benefits such as generous annual leave, pension, and access to NHS discount schemes.
• Range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We promote inclusion and ensure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds.
• We aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat each other with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity improves positive outcomes for the communities we serve.

What do we stand for?

• Our vision: providing outstanding care, supporting healthy communities, and being a great place to work.
• Our mission: to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values: collaborate, aspire, respect, and enable.

Job responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification available as attachments in the advert.

Internal applicants may consider secondment with prior line manager support. If you have a disability affecting online application submission and need assistance, contact us at [e-mail] quoting the vacancy reference number.

Person Specification

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge

• Effective communication with patients, relatives, carers, and other professionals.
• Care for patients without prejudice related to gender, religion, or disability.
• Ability to work under pressure, self-aware, self-motivated, enthusiastic.
• Manage own caseload.
• Knowledge of the Data Protection Act.

Experience

• Post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas such as Care of Elderly, Community, Orthopaedics, Neurology, Respiratory, Palliative Care, Long-term conditions.
• Desirable: experience with single assessment, planning, and care delivery.
• Experience with electronic clinical systems like RIO.

Education, Qualifications & Training

• Registered Nurse or student nurse awaiting NMC registration confirmation.
• Committed to professional development; post-registration education and extended skills such as IV drug administration, compression dressings.

Special Circumstances

• Car driver/owner able to travel within the Trust.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to DBS checks due to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.

Salary: £29,970 to £36,483 per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working