Community Staff Nurse - Wycombe ACHT

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare seeks dedicated nursing professionals to join their community team. This role offers a unique opportunity to advance your nursing career while providing essential care to patients in their homes. You will collaborate with healthcare assistants and clinicians to ensure high-quality service delivery, focusing on patient independence and preventing hospital admissions. With a commitment to professional development and a supportive work environment, this position is perfect for both experienced and newly qualified nurses looking to make a meaningful impact in their community. Join a diverse and inclusive team that values your contributions and fosters your growth.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave entitlement

NHS pension scheme

Access to NHS discount schemes

Health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Registered health professional with a diploma level qualification.
• Evidence of recent CPD in long-term conditions is required.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients' needs and deliver therapeutic interventions.
• Manage own caseload and evaluate service delivery.
• Contribute to service and quality improvement processes.

Skills

Clinical assessment skills

Communication skills

Ability to work under pressure

Knowledge of NHS modernization

Report writing skills

Education

Registered health professional - Diploma level

Postgraduate module(s) in long-term conditions

Tools

Electronic clinical systems

Job description

Main area Community Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working

30 hours per week (07.00 - 15.00, 08.00 - 16.00, 13.00 - 21.00, weekends) Job ref 434-CR6884761

Site Chichester House Town High Wycombe Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata for part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 05/01/2025 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

Do you live in Buckinghamshire and seek an opportunity to advance your nursing career within a role that will help develop your professional decision-making and skills? Why not try this new opportunity and join the Wycombe Community Nursing Team (ACHT).

The post will involve working with healthcare assistants and clinicians to provide nursing interventions to patients in their home environment, maximising their independence and providing care to avoid hospital admission as well as facilitating discharges from the acute.

You must be innovative in your approach and willing to work with other members of the integrated team and ward staff to ensure a high-quality service delivery. You must be willing to develop your own knowledge and skills; you will be supported in your personal development with training to extend your community nursing skills.

Experienced and newly qualified staff nurses will be considered for the post. 7 days a week shift pattern.

Main duties of the job

• To contribute to processes for service and quality improvement.
• Assess the physical and psycho-social needs of patients and deliver therapeutic interventions based on best available evidence in order to improve health outcomes.
• To manage own caseload, delivering and evaluating service delivery to patients with a variety of medical conditions and those delegated by case managers.
• To plan interventions with the Case Manager and other team members using the common assessment process.
• To take part in the referral management process to ensure patients are treated by the most appropriate member of the team/service.
• To contribute to the development of protocols and procedures developed for clinical pathways.

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.
• 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.

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

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

• Registered health professional - Diploma level.
• Evidence of recent CPD Postgraduate module(s) in long-term conditions.

EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas: Palliative Care Catheterisation experience.
• At least 1-year community experience.
• Knowledge of working with common assessment process.
• Experience of electronic clinical systems.
• Experience participating in a research or audit project.

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

• Demonstrate profession-specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Report writing skills.

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.

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.

If 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 the closing 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 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.