Job overview
The Adult Community Health Care Teams (Southern ACHT) within Buckinghamshire are delighted to announce there is a position for full-time Advanced Community Practitioner Band 7 nurse within Chalfont's and surrounding villages. It offers a mix of town and countryside working. If you like the faster pace of urban life, then this is the place for you.
Southern District Nursing has a wide range of enthusiastic and committed staff from various background building a service with priorities that reflects high standards in care and changing needs of the service.
As part of an integrated Trust, the ACHT reflects a cohesive approach, with both Primary and Secondary care services that has been designed in response to the changing needs of the local population.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide skilled, professional assessment of health needs and relevant nursing complex case management
2. 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
3. To educate and support the members of the multi-disciplinary teams to intensively case manage these patients.
4. To intensively case manage their own caseload of patients with highly complex and unstable health needs
5. Develop systems and processes to support intensive case management within the multi-disciplinary team and with partners across the health system.
6. 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.
Working for our organisation
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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?
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.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS TRAINING
Essential criteria
7. Educated to Degree level or equivalent competencies in health-related subjects
8. Level 1 Registered Nurse
9. Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification equivalent to level 3
10. Recognised supervisory management qualification equivalent to level 3
Desirable criteria
11. District Nursing SPQ desirable
12. Independent/supplementary non-medical prescriber
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
13. Relevant specialist/clinical experience and competence including:
14. Experience of working as advanced clinical practitioner/case management, long term conditions, complex case management
15. Medicines management at a senior level
16. Leading complex care coordination
17. Management of complex Long-Term Conditions
18. Management of complex Long-Term Conditions
19. Management of complex Long-Term Conditions
20. Developing highly specialised programmes of care, providing advice concerning treatment of patients
21. Professional practice and leadership
22. Managing care at end of life
23. Experience of inter-agency and partnership working
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
24. Highly specialist knowledge in managing patients in the community with complex medical needs, long term/chronic disease management and palliative care
25. Highly developed professional knowledge base, supported by educational development and different work environments
26. Knowledge of current political drivers, health and social care issues
27. Specialist knowledge of governance and risk strategies and their application in a community setting
28. Highly developed general management practice, including organisational performance management, finance, human resources and equality and diversity
29. Highly specialist clinical and technical skills in managing long term conditions / end of life care
30. Working Together Promotes cohesion and team working Works collaboratively with
31. teams within the Trust and across the Local Health Economy Resolves conflict effectively Assertive, honest and open
SPECIAL CURCUMSTANCES
Essential criteria
32. Ability to travel to other sites
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.
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.
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.
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