HoursPart time - 33 hours per week (3 nights one week, followed by 4 nights the following week- 21.00 - 07.30)Job ref434-CR6952674-AEmployerBuckinghamshire Healthcare NHS TrustEmployer typeNHSSiteStoke Mandeville HospitalTownAylesburySalary£29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rataSalary periodYearlyClosing08/04/2025 23:59
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Band 5
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
1. provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
2. nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
3. regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
4. deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.
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
Listen to why colleagues think we are a great place to work! - https://bit.ly/3DNEQfD
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
5. As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
6. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
7. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
8. We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
9. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
10. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
11. Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
12. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
13. Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
14. Registered health professional - Diploma level
15. Evidence of recent CPD Post graduate module(s) in long term conditions
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
16. Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills
17. Able to work under pressure
Desirable criteria
18. Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care
19. Good written and verbal communication skills
20. Report writing skills
21. IT skills
22. Presentation skills
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
23. Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas: ? Palliative Care ? Catheterisation experience
24. At least 1-year community experience
Desirable criteria
25. Knowledge of working with common assessment process
26. Experience of electronic clinical systems
27. Experience participating in a research or audit project
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Desirable criteria
28. Car driver / owner able to travel to other locations within the trust
PPE requirements:
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations
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.
Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.
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.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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