Job summary
Employer heading
Advanced Community Practitioner - Thame ACHT
Band 7
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:
- provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
- nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
- regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
- 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
Thame Adult Community Health Care Team (ACHT) within Buckinghamshire is delighted to announce there is a position for full-time Advanced Community Practitioner Band 7 nurse with a special interest in tissue viability.
Thame District Nursing has a wide range of enthusiastic and committed staff from various backgrounds building a service with priorities that reflects high standards in care and changing needs of the service.
As part of an integrated Trust, Thame ACHT reflects a cohesive approach, with both Primary and Secondary care services that has been designed in response to the changing needs of the local population.
Main duties of the job
- Provide skilled, professional assessment of health needs and relevant nursing complex case management
- To 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
- To educate and support the members of the multi-disciplinary teams to intensively case manage these patients.
- To 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.
- To 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 reduce GP contact.
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.
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
2.EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent competencies in health related subjects
- Level 1 Registered Nurse
- Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification equivalent to level 3
- District Nursing SPQ
- Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Elderly, Long Term Conditions, Respiratory Disease, Cardiac Disease, Dementia, Rehabilitation, Trauma and Orthopaedics and End of Life
Desirable criteria
- Independent/supplementary non-medical prescriber
3.EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as advanced clinical practitioner/ case management long terms conditions Complex Case manager
- Medicines management at a senior level
- Supporting self-care and enabling independence
- Professional practice and leadership
- Managing care at the end of life
- Experience of interagency and partnership working
- Developing highly specialised programmes of care, providing advice concerning treatment of patients
- Professional practice and leadership
- Managing care at end of life Experience of inter-agency and partnership working
4.SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Highly specialist knowledge in managing patients in the community with complex medical needs, long term/chronic disease management and palliative care
- Highly developed professional knowledge base, supported by educational development and different work environments
- Knowledge of current political drivers, health and social care issues
- Specialist knowledge of governance and risk strategies and their application in a community setting
- Highly developed general management practice, including organisational performance management, finance, human resources and equality and diversity
- Highly specialist clinical and technical skills in managing long term conditions / end of life care
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers and the public
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills Strong IT skills – including Excel and PowerPoint
- Good presentation skills /public speaking
- Ability to plan and manage resources within allocated budget effectively
- Ability to work autonomously without supervision Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
- Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
- Patient Focused Responsive and flexible innovative approach to improving patient experience Promotes service improvement
- Maximising Value Seeks opportunity to provide medium – long term value Addresses inefficiencies quickly Evaluates and streamlines ways of working
- Achieving Results Proactive, solutions focused attitude Focuses self and team to deliver results Provides clear goals and objectives Takes responsibility for resolving problems
- Inspirational Leadership Makes things happen Motivates and nurtures talent Celebrates success Manages underperformance Promotes continuous learning
- Working Together Promotes cohesion and team working Works collaboratively with teams within the Trust and across the Local Health Economy Resolves conflict effectively Assertive, honest and open
5.SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Essential criteria
- Valid and current driving license or able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Selma Lino
- Job title
- Community Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07725560149
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