Overview
The Adult Community Health Care Teams (Southern ACHT) within Buckinghamshire are pleased to announce a full-time Advanced Community Practitioner Band 7 nurse position in Chalfont's and surrounding villages. The role offers a mix of town and countryside working. Southern District Nursing has a wide range of enthusiastic and committed staff from diverse backgrounds, building a service with priorities that reflect high standards of care and the changing needs of the service. As part of an integrated Trust, the ACHT reflects a cohesive approach, with both Primary and Secondary care services designed in response to the changing needs of the local population.
Responsibilities
* Provide skilled, professional assessment of health needs and relevant nursing complex case management
* 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
* Educate and support the members of the multi-disciplinary teams to intensively case manage these patients
* 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
* 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 reducing GP contact
Why Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
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 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.
Our Values and Vision
Why work for us? We’re committed to promoting inclusion and ensuring 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. We are keen supporters of the Armed Forces Community who value 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.
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert. This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Sep 2025.
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