Community Staff Nurse - Wycombe ACHT

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

Job summary

Join the Wycombe Community Nursing Team at NHS to advance your nursing career. You will provide vital care to patients at home, ensuring their independence. The role requires collaboration with healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality services. Both experienced and newly qualified nurses are welcome to apply.

Benefits

Training and professional development

NHS discount schemes

Generous annual leave entitlement

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in community nursing for at least 1 year.
• Ability to work both in a team and independently.
• Understanding of current nursing issues and quality audit.

Responsibilities

• Deliver nursing care and interventions to patients in their homes.
• Contribute to service improvement and manage a caseload effectively.
• Help with assessments and care planning as part of a community team.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Communication

Teamwork

IT skills

Education

Registered Nurse/Awaiting NMC PIN

CPD Post graduate module(s) in long term conditions

NMC approved mentoring qualification

Job description

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 delivertherapeutic interventions based on best available evidence in order to improve health outcomes.
• To manage own case load, 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

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

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, QUALIFICATION & TRAINING

• Registered Nurse/Awaiting NMC PIN
• CPD Post graduate module(s) in long term conditions
• Evidence of further continued professional development
• Hold / be working towards an NMC approved mentoring qualification

EXPERIENCE

• At least 1-year community experience
• Ability to understand the role of a registered nurse
• Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
• Awareness of current professional nursing issues
• Demonstrates understanding of the importance of audit/quality
• Knowledge of working with common assessment process

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

• Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills and ability to negotiate
• Ability to manage and prioritise own caseload with supervision
• Basic IT skills
• Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care

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.

£29,970 to £36,483 a yearper annum (pro rata for part time)

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

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