Advanced Community Practitioner - Southern ACHT

Overview

Advanced Community Practitioner - Southern ACHT, Band 7

Main area: Community - District Nursing. Contract: Permanent. Hours: 37.5 hours per week (5 days / week shift pattern). Site: Chalfont St Peter & Gerrards Cross. Salary: £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata. Closing: 24/09/:59.

About the Trust

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 or phone .

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.

Launch Your Nursing Career with Us!

At Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, we are committed to helping newly qualified nurses grow into confident, skilled professionals.

From day one, you will benefit from structured development programmes, personalised mentorship, and access to specialist training that supports your long-term career ambitions.

Whether you are aiming for clinical excellence, leadership roles, or advanced practice, we will help you build a career you are proud of.

Start your journey with us and unlock your potential!

Job overview

The Adult Community Health Care Teams (Southern ACHT) within Buckinghamshire are delighted to announce there is a position for full-time Advanced Community Practitioner Band 7 nurse within Chalfont's and surrounding villages. It offers a mix of town and countryside working. If you like the faster pace of urban life, then this is the place for you.

Southern District Nursing has a wide range of enthusiastic and committed staff from various background building a service with priorities that reflects high standards in care and changing needs of the service.

As part of an integrated Trust, the 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.

What Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offers

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 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 refer to the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

Person specification Education, Qualifications, Training

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent competencies in health-related subjects
• Level 1 Registered Nurse
• Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification equivalent to level 3
• Recognised supervisory management qualification equivalent to level 3
• Independent/supplementary non-medical prescriber

Experience

• Relevant specialist/clinical experience and competence including:
• Experience of working as advanced clinical practitioner/case management, long term conditions, complex case management
• Medicines management at a senior level
• Management of complex Long-Term Conditions
• 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

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge

• 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
• Working Together Promotes cohesion and team working
• Resolves conflict effectively
• Assertive, honest and open

Special circumstances

• Ability to travel to other sites

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised 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 (ESR) 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 interviews 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

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.