Lead District Nurse - Advanced Community Practitioner

Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust; Thame; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

NHS pension

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in Thame is seeking an experienced Advanced Community Practitioner (Band 7) to join the Thame Adult Community Healthcare Team. A Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing is essential.

You will provide clinical and operational leadership within a supportive community team, manage complex caseloads, and drive high standards of patient-centred care across Thame and surrounding areas.

Qualifications

• Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing is essential.
• Experience in leading community nursing teams or equivalent leadership roles.
• Proven ability to manage complex caseloads in a community setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide skilled, professional assessment of health needs and relevant nursing complex case management
• To proactively case find patients who are very high intensity users of community and primary healthcare and / or are at high risk of unplanned admission to hospital
• To educate and support the members of the multi-disciplinary teams to intensively case manage these patients.
• To intensively case manage their own caseload of patients with highly complex and unstable health needs
• Develop systems and processes to support intensive case management within the multi-disciplinary team and with partners across the health system.
• To work with and refer appropriately to other agencies to enable identified patients to be intensively managed in a pro-active way with the aim of preventing hospital admission, supporting early discharge and reduce GP contact.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Complex caseload management

Community nursing

Education

Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing

Tools

MDT collaboration

Job description

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in Thame is seeking an experienced Advanced Community Practitioner (Band 7) to join the Thame Adult Community Healthcare Team. A Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing is essential.

You will provide clinical and operational leadership within a supportive community team, manage complex caseloads, and drive high standards of patient-centred care across Thame and surrounding areas.