Community Staff Nurse - Night Service

NHS; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000

Job description

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

1. To contribute to processes for service and quality improvement.
2. Assess the physical and psycho-social needs of patients and deliver therapeutic interventions based on best available evidence in order to improve health outcomes.
3. To manage own case load, delivering and evaluating service delivery to patients with a variety of medical conditions and those delegated by case managers.
4. To plan interventions with the Case Manager and other team members using the common assessment process.
5. To take part in the referral management process to ensure patients are treated by the most appropriate member of the team/service.
6. To contribute to the development of protocols and procedures developed for clinical pathways.
7. Assist in the development of case management protocols and guidelines within their own area of professional practice.

About us

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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.

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.

Job 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.

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Person Specification

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

• Registered health professional - Diploma level.
• Evidence of recent CPD Post graduate module(s) in long term conditions.

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

• Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Report writing skills.

EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas: Palliative Care, Catheterisation experience.
• At least 1-year community experience.
• Knowledge of working with common assessment process.
• Experience of electronic clinical systems.
• Experience participating in a research or audit project.

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

• Car driver / owner able to travel to other locations within the trust.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum pro rata.