Community Staff Nurse - Thame

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; Thame; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is recruiting a Community Staff Nurse to join a newly formed district nursing team covering the Thame/Princes Risborough area. You will be supported with a skills development and preceptorship programme to grow into an autonomous practitioner, nursing patients in their homes.

The role offers flexible, agile working opportunities and NHS benefits, with a focus on high-quality care, professional development, and collaborative working with social care and other

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or student nurse awaiting NMC registration.
• Committed to own professional development to enhance practice.
• Post-registration education and extended skills (e.g., IV drugs, compression dressings).

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality community nursing in patients' homes and local care settings.
• Administer medications and provide end-of-life and wound care (including NPWT and compression therapy).
• Collaborate with social care and primary health professionals to meet complex needs.

Skills

English communication

NMC Code knowledge

Data Protection Act knowledge

Self-motivation

Enthusiasm

Ability to work under pressure

Communication with patients and carers

Education

Registered Nurse (NMC)

Awaiting NMC registration

Commitment to professional development

Tools

RIO

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an aspiring individual to develop experience 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 offera full skills development and preceptorship programme.

We are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. 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 health care needs in their own home.

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 the complex patient in the community and avoid admissions to acute settings. This includes medication administration, end of life care, managing the deteriorating patient, complex and simple wound care including negative pressure wound therapy and compression therapy, venepuncture, utilising advanced assessment skills and clinical nursing skills. We nurse people with a variety of conditions in a holistic manner in their own home and in residential care settings. Community nurses work in close partnership with social care and other primary health care professionals such as GP's, Community Therapies and specialised services such as Tissue Viability, Diabetes and Heart Failure.

About us

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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 workingopportunities,alongside your NHS benefits ofgenerous annual leave entitlement, pension andaccess toNHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We'recommitted 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 withinourBHT familyimprovespositive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

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.

Job responsibilities

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

Person Specification

EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas: ? Care of Elderly ? Community ? Orthopaedics ? Neurology ? Respiratory ? Palliative Care ? Long term conditions
• Desirable but not essential knowledge of working with a single assessment, planning and the delivery of care.
• Experience of electronic clinical systems and technology e.g. RIO

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

• Registered Nurse or student nurse awaiting confirmation of NMC registration
• Committed to own professional development to enhance practice
• Post registration education and extended skills e.g. Intravenous drug administration, compression dressings.

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

• Car driver / owner able to travel to other locations within the Trust

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

• To be able to communicate effectively in english with patients, relatives, carers and other professionals.
• To be able to care for patients without prejudice related to gender, religion or disability.
• Knowledge of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Knowledge of the Data Protection Act
• Able to work under pressure 1. Self-awareness 2. Self-motivated 3. Enthusiastic

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

• Car driver / owner able to travel to other locations within the trust

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£32,073 to £39,043 a yearper annum pro rata for part time