Community Staff Nurse - Thame

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

NHS benefits

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Community Staff Nurse in Thame on a 12-month maternity contract. The role covers 30 hours per week with some weekend and late shifts, part-time and job share options, and flexible working.

You will develop as a Community Nurse within a newly formed team, supported by a full skills development and preceptorship programme. The post offers NHS benefits and inclusive, flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas: elderly care, orthopaedics, neurology, respiratory, palliative care or long-term conditions.
• Desirable knowledge of assessment, planning and delivery of care.
• Experience with electronic clinical systems (RIO).

Responsibilities

• Provide district nursing care in patients' homes within the Thame area.
• Work within a locality team with District Nurse Team Leaders, Therapists, Assistant Practitioners and HCAs to prevent hospital admissions.
• Administer medications, administer end of life care and manage wounds, including negative pressure and compression therapy; venepuncture and advanced nursing skills.

Skills

Clinical placements experience

Community nursing experience

Education

Nurse registration or student nurse in progress

Tools

RIO

Job description

Main area Community Grade Band 5 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover) Hours

• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working

30 hours per week (sporadic weekends and lates) Job ref 434-CR8218045

Site Thame Community Hub Town Thame Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 09/09/2026 23:59

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
• Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [e-mail] or phone [phone].

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

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 - 12 months contract to cover for Maternity leave. You will be supported 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.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

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.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on [e-mail] quoting the vacancy reference number.

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

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.

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.

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

Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) 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 interviews will not be reimbursed.

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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.