This 30-hour part-time post sits with the Amersham Adult Community Healthcare Team, where the nurse delivers care to patients in their own homes. The work centres on managing a caseload of people with long-term conditions who are at high risk of deterioration, using assessment and referral management to keep them out of hospital. The service runs 7am to 9pm, seven days a week, and the role needs access to a car and a driving licence for travel across Buckinghamshire. Applicants must be willing to undertake District Nurse training.
What the job involves
- Assess the physical and psycho-social needs of a defined caseload and start treatment and care based on best available evidence
- Manage a caseload of patients with long-term conditions who would benefit from case management
- Manage community patients at very high risk of acute deterioration and unplanned admission
- Deliver case management interventions tailored to each individual's needs
- Undertake referral management to set up case management programmes for patients referred to the Adult Community Healthcare Teams
- Improve health outcomes using specialist nursing skills and knowledge
- Provide nursing interventions to patients in their home environment
- Deliver IV therapy, catheter care, wound and leg ulcer care, palliative and end of life care, and medicines management
- Contribute to effective caseload management processes in the community
- Work with community team members and ward staff to deliver a high-quality service
Qualifications
- Nursing degree or diploma in health, nursing studies or a related subject
- Relevant post-graduate clinical training, such as elderly care, long-term conditions, respiratory, cardiac, dementia, rehabilitation, trauma and orthopaedics, or end of life
- Evidence of recent continuous professional development
Registration & licences
- NMC registration
- Registered Allied Healthcare Professional / Registered Level 1 status
Experience
- At least one year as a Band 5 in the community
- Broad experience post registration across a variety of core areas
- In-depth experience of working within a multi-agency or multidisciplinary team
- Experience of working in a busy, pressurised office environment and managing a diverse workload
Skills & knowledge
- Willingness to undertake District Nurse training
- Ability to demonstrate professional skills and competence in medicines management, care and treatment delivery
- Innovative approach and willingness to work with community team and ward staff
- Willingness to develop own knowledge and skills
Checks & eligibility
- Valid, current driving licence with access to a car for work
Nice to have
- Three years' post-registration experience in a community or in-patient setting
- Experience of assisting with change management programmes, such as service development
- Experience of electronic clinical systems
- Experience of day-to-day staff management, such as allocating cases to healthcare assistants
- Wide range of clinical expertise within the NHS
What’s offered
- Learning and development opportunities to support career progression
- Flexible and agile working opportunities
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- NHS pension
- Access to NHS discount schemes
- Health and wellbeing services
- Secondment option for internal applicants
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
