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Job overview

Are you a community nurse looking for a new opportunity? We have an exciting position for a Community Case Manager in Amersham Adult Community Healthcare Team.  Your leadership skills will help the organisation reach its goals in providing gold standard patient care and give you the opportunity to contribute to changes which will  improve care in the community. You will have opportunity to implement strategies to support the team in delivering efficient and safe care to clients, working closely with colleagues to coordinate visits and managing the administration of holistic care in the community.

The post is to provide nursing interventions to patients in their home environment. If you are interested in joining our friendly team we would like to hear from you.

We aim to provide timely, evidence based, compassionate care to our patients.

Our expectations meet the Trust values of CARE. We Collaborate with each other to meet the needs of our patients. We Aspire to give the best care to our patients and each other. We treat everyone with Respect and Enable our staff to become autonomous practitioner.

You will be supported by senior members of your team who will work side by side with you until you are confident. You will be encouraged to develop your skill set by attending the relevant training courses and study days. We actively encourage all band 6 nurses to undertake the specialist practitioner qualification (subject to successful interview)

Main duties of the job

The case management model will provide interventions tailored to meet the needs of the individual. 
• To contribute to processes for proactively case finding patients who are very high intensity users of community and primary healthcare and / or are at high risk of unplanned admission to hospital. 
• Assess the physical and psycho–social needs of the defined case load instigating therapeutic treatments and care delivery based on best available evidence. 
• To improve health outcomes using specialist nursing skills and knowledge. 
• To undertake referral management to develop and establish case management programmes for patients referred to the Adult Community Healthcare Teams. 
• To manage a caseload of patients with long term conditions who would benefit from case management. 
• To plan, co-ordinate and evaluate care programme delivery using the single assessment process, managing patient referrals to ensure patients are treated by the most appropriate member of the team / service. 
• To develop protocols and procedures for clinical pathways.

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?

• 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.
• 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.