Advanced Community Practitioner - Southern ACHT inGerrards Cross inGerrards Cross PUBLISHED
TUE 5 NOV 2024
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust rC5juByv
Candidates should be committed to high standards of care and possess the skills necessary to work within an integrated health system that adapts to the evolving needs of the local community. The position requires effective communication with various agencies and partners to ensure that patients receive comprehensive support in managing their health conditions proactively.
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.
- 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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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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