Community Staff Nurse - Thame | Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust; Thame; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Thame, England, is seeking a Community Nurse for a fixed contract position. The role involves supporting patients with complex healthcare needs in their homes, working within a multidisciplinary team. This position offers a full skills development program and the opportunity to work with diverse patient populations. Candidates should be motivated team players committed to providing high-quality nursing services.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

NHS pension benefits

Access to NHS discount schemes

Qualifications

• Ability to manage complex health care needs.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Commitment to providing a high-quality nursing service.

Responsibilities

• Nursing patients with complex health care needs in their own home.
• Working within a team of healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive care.
• Administering medications and providing end-of-life care.

Skills

Complex wound care

Medication administration

Holistic nursing

Advanced assessment skills

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 fixed contract for 12 months. 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. 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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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This advert closes on Thursday 31 Jul 2025