District Nurse/ Community Case Manager Nurse - Marlow ACHT inMarlow inMarlow PUBLISHED
TUE 24 DEC 2024
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust rC5juByv
The successful candidate will be responsible for assessing patients' physical and psychosocial needs, delivering evidence-based therapeutic treatments, and improving health outcomes through specialized nursing skills. Additionally, the role involves proactive case finding for high-intensity users of community healthcare and developing case management programs for referred patients. The ACHT aims to deliver coordinated care in partnership with various key stakeholders to enhance the overall quality of health services provided to the local population.
Marlow Adult Community Health Care Team (ACHT) is delighted to announce a Band 6 District Nurse/ Community Nurse /Case Manager positions:
- 1 x full time 37.5 hours per week
- The team leadership is made up of a Community team lead, an Advanced Case Manager who is qualified as Clinical Practice Teacher in district nursing, an advanced case manager who has extensive skills managing teams.
The ACHT reflects an integrated approach that has been designed in response to the changing needs of the local population, with a special emphasis being placed on the proactive vision of care for patients in the community setting, including caseload management, prevention of admission, reablement and end of life care. In addition, emphasis is being placed on candidates to successfully facilitate timely discharge from hospital utilising a co-ordinated approach to care in partnership with key care partners.
- The case management model will provide interventions tailored to meet the needs of the individual
- To contribute to processes for proactively case finding patients who are very high intensity users of community and primary healthcare and / or are at high risk of unplanned admission to hospital
- Assess the physical and psycho-social needs of the defined case load instigating therapeutic treatments and care delivery based on best available evidence
- To improve health outcomes using specialist nursing skills and knowledge
- To undertake referral management to develop and establish case management programmes for patients referred to the Adult Community Healthcare Teams
- To manage a caseload of patients with long term conditions who would benefit from case management
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