Community Staff Nurse - Night Service

Job overview

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

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

Participate in weekend rotas / 7 day working rotas

Detailed job description and main 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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