Community Staff Nurse

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Job summary

Do you live in Buckinghamshire and seek an opportunity to advance your nursing career within a role that will help develop your professional decision making and skills. Why not try this new opportunity and join the Marlow Community Nursing Team (ACHT).

The post will involve working with healthcare assistants and clinicians to provide nursing interventions to patients in their home environment, maximising their independence and providing care to avoid hospital admission as well as facilitating discharges from the acute.

You must be innovative in your approach and willing to work with other members of the integrated team and ward staff to ensure a high quality service delivery. You must be willing to develop your own knowledge and skills, you will be supported in your personal development with training to extend your community nursing skills.

Experienced and newly qualified staff nurses will be considered for the post. 7 days a week shift pattern

Main duties of the job

  • To contribute to processes for service and quality improvement
  • Assess the physical and psycho-social needs of patients and delivertherapeutic 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

Person Specification

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATION & TRAINING

Essential

  • Registered Nurse/Awaiting NMC PIN

Desirable

  • Evidence of further continued professional development
  • Post qualification experience in relevant speciality
  • Hold / be working towards an NMC approved mentoring qualification

EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Ability to understand the role of a registered nurse
  • Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
  • Awareness of current professional nursing issues
  • Demonstrates understanding of the importance of audit/quality

Desirable

  • Post registration experience working in an acute hospital setting

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

Essential

  • Good verbal and written communication skills and ability to negotiate
  • Ability to manage and prioritise own caseload with supervision
  • Ability to solve problems and use initiative
  • Ability to develop clinical skills
  • Willingness to undergo training (e.g. medications)
  • Basic IT skills
  • Knowledge of the NMC code of conduct
  • Ability to maintain a safe clinical environment conducive to patient care
  • Adaptable to change
  • Ability to work rotating shifts
  • Diplomatic approach with professionalism
  • Flexible and approachable

Desirable

  • Willingness to develop teaching skills
  • Awareness of the NHSE guidance of clinical governance in order to continuously improve quality of care e.g. quality, safety and ward audit standards
  • Knowledge of care planning, preceptorship, reflection and clinical supervision

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

Desirable

  • Able to travel to other sites and off site as necessary

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 2 August 2026

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