District Nurse/Community Case Manager Nurse – Marlow ACHT

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Full time
Location: Marlow
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Marlow Adult Community Health Care Team (ACHT) is delighted to announce a Band 6 District Nurse/ Community Nurse /Case Manager position:

1 x full time 37.5 hours per week The team leadership is made up of a Community team lead, an Advanced Case Manager who is qualified as Clinical Practice Teacher in district nursing, and an advanced case manager who has extensive skills managing teams.

The ACHT reflects an integrated approach designed in response to the changing needs of the local population, with a special emphasis on proactive care for patients in the community setting, including caseload management, prevention of admission, reablement, and end of life care. In addition, emphasis is placed on candidates to successfully facilitate timely discharge from hospital utilizing a coordinated approach to care in partnership with key care partners.

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 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 caseload, 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.

About us

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 diverse 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.

Job description

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.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications & Training

Essential Registered Allied Healthcare Professional / Registered Level 1. Nurse Degree/ Diploma in Health / Nursing Studies or related subject. Evidence of recent Continuous Professional Development. Relevant postgraduate clinical training e.g. Elderly, Long Term Conditions, Respiratory Disease, Cardiac Disease, Dementia, Rehabilitation, Trauma and Orthopaedics, and End of Life.

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge

Essential Willingness to undertake the District Nurse Training.

Experience

Essential Demonstrate broad experience post-registration within a variety of core areas: Elderly care, Orthopaedics, Neurology, Respiratory, Palliative Care, Long term conditions. In-depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary teams.

Desirable Experience of working in a community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post-registration. Experience of assisting with implementing change management programmes e.g. service development. Experience of electronic clinical systems. Experience participating in a research or audit project. Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistant. Experience of working with the single assessment process.

Special Circumstances

Essential Valid and current driving license or able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire.

Employer details

Employer name

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Marlow Health Clinic 38 Glade Road Marlow SL7 1DH

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