Advanced Community Practitioner - Thame ACHT

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.

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.

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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.