Overview
Advanced Community Practitioner - Southern ACHT – Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. The Adult Community Health Care Teams (Southern ACHT) within Buckinghamshire have a full-time Advanced Community Practitioner (Band 7) position in Chalfont and surrounding villages. The role offers a mix of town and countryside working within an integrated Trust environment that supports primary and secondary care services.
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 hospital admission
* Educate and support the members of the multidisciplinary 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 multidisciplinary team and with partners across the health system
* Work with and refer appropriately to other agencies to enable identified patients to be intensively managed pro-actively to prevent hospital admission, support early discharge and reduce GP contact
What we offer
Flexible and agile working opportunities alongside NHS benefits including 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. There are learning and development opportunities to support career progression.
Why join Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
We are committed to promoting inclusion and ensuring all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. We aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues are treated with dignity and respect. Diversity within our Trust improves outcomes for the people and communities we serve. We support service leavers/veterans and their families.
About our values and purpose
Vision: provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work. Mission: provide personal and compassionate care every time. CARE values:Collaborate, Aspire, Respect, Enable.
Contact for further details / informal visits
Name: Selma Lino
Job title: Community Team Lead
Email: selma.lino@nhs.net
Telephone: 07725560149
Job details
* Seniority level: Entry level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Health Care Provider
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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