Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Night service Community Team at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Do you want the privilege of caring for patients in their own homes to deliver increasingly complex, holistic care? If yes, community nursing may be the right career choice for you. We are able to offer part-time roles along with a full skills development and preceptorship programme.
We are ideally looking for someone who can work autonomously in the community at Community Staff Nurse level. As a community nurse, you will work alongside a Case manager and a Community Healthcare Assistant, but at times will take the lead in triage and making care decisions; nursing patients with multiple complex health care needs in their own home.
Main duties of the job
To contribute to processes for service and quality improvement
Assess the physical and psycho–social needs of patients and deliver
therapeutic 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
Assist in the development of case management protocols and guidelines
within their own area of professional practice
Participate in weekend rotas / 7 day working rotas
Working for our organisation
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Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Registered health professional - Diploma level
2. Evidence of recent CPD
Desirable criteria
3. Post graduate module(s) in long term conditions
Skills, Abilities & Knowledge
Essential criteria
4. Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills
5. Able to work under pressure
6. Can work independently, for example, to manage catheter care, end of life care (including verification of death, syringe driver management, psychological support and symptom control), wound care, diabetic management, prevention of admission
7. Is willing and able to develop further skills to support the community team
Desirable criteria
8. Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care
9. Good written and verbal communication skills
10. Report writing skills
11. IT skills
12. Presentation skills
Experience
Essential criteria
13. Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas: palliative care experience; catheterisation experience
14. At least one year community experience
15. Is willing and able to undertake night time driving and drive a large SUV
Desirable criteria
16. Knowledge of working with common assessment process
17. Experience of electronic clinical systems
18. Experience participating in a research or audit project
Special Circumstances
Desirable criteria
19. Car driver / owner able to travel to other locations within the trust
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.
I f you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records 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 interview 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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