Community Staff Nurse

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an aspiring individual to develop their career in the specialised area of District nurse as a community staff nurse. This opportunity is now available within the District Nursing Teams across Buckinghamshire. We are welcoming highly motivated and effective team players, committed to providing a high quality nursing service within the District Nursing field. We are able to offer a full skills development and preceptorship programme.

We are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. All levels of experience are welcome in community nursing. Whether you are newly qualified or looking for a change in direction, we would welcome your application for this exciting opportunity to join the community nursing workforce. As a community nurse, you would be supported to develop into an autonomous practitioner;

nursing patients with multiple complex health care needs in their own home.

Community nursing is a specialised area of practice. As a Community Staff Nurse, you will work within a locality team of District Nurse Team Leaders, Community Staff Nurses, Therapists, Assistant Practitioners and Healthcare Assistants, to meet the needs of the complex patient in the community and avoid admissions to acute settings. This includes medication administration, end of life care, managing the deteriorating patient, complex and simple wound care including negative pressure wound therapy and compression therapy, venepuncture, utilising advanced assessment skills and clinical nursing skills.

We nurse people with a variety of conditions in a holistic manner in their own home and in residential care settings. Community nurses work in close partnership with social care and other primary health care professionals such as GP's, Community Therapies and specialised services such as Tissue Viability, Diabetes and Heart Failure.

PPE requirements:
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

Final date to receive applications:
This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.

Contacting you:
We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.

Application information:
If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.

Shortlisting:
The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses:
It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.

Smoking:
All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area. We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
• Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients' own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us. We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer. If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone  We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

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