Job summary
We have an enviable opportunity for a Community Case Manager in Southern Adult Community Healthcare Team. Your leadership skills will help the organization reach its goals in providing gold-standard patient care and allow you to contribute to changes that will improve care in the community. You will have opportunity to implement strategies to support the team in delivering efficient and safe care to clients, working closely with colleagues to coordinate visits and managing the administration of holistic care in the community.

The post is to provide nursing interventions to patients in their home environment, provide caseload management and staff supervision in community care delivery. If you are interested in joining our friendly team we would like to hear from you.

This is Us... Southern ACHT
We aim to provide timely, evidence based, compassionate care to the patients in our community.

Our expectations are based on the Trust values of CARE. We Collaborate with each other to meet the needs of our patients. We Aspire to give the best care to our patients and each other. We treat everyone with Respect and Enable our staff to become autonomous practitioner.

You will be supported by senior members of your team who will work side by side with you. You will be encouraged to develop your skill set by attending the relevant training courses and study days and develop mentoring an coaching skills to support your team.

Main duties of the job
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.
• To plan, co-ordinate and evaluate care programme delivery using the single assessment process, managing patient referrals to ensure patients are treated by the most appropriate member of the team / service.
• To develop protocols and procedures for clinical pathways.

About us
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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.

Why work for us?

• We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

What do we stand for?

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Job 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.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.

Person Specification
Education, Qualifications & Training
Essential

• Registered Allied Healthcare Professional / Registered Level 1 Nurse
• Degree/ Diploma in Health / Nursing Studies or related subject
• Evidence of recent Continuous Professional Development
• Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Elderly, Long Term Conditions, Respiratory Disease, Cardiac Disease, Dementia, Rehabilitation, Trauma and Orthopaedics and End of Life

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge
Essential

• Demonstrate specialist clinical assessment, analysis, planning, delivery and evaluation skills
• Ability to motivate staff
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable

• Ability to manage complex cases
• Ability to develop and maintain partnership working
• Knowledge of legal requirements for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity
• Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care
• Report writing skills
• IT skills
• Presentation skills
• Teaching patients, carers and colleagues

Experience
Essential

• Demonstrate broad experience post registration within a variety of core areas: Elderly care, Orthopaedics, Neurology, Respiratory, Palliative Care, Long term conditions
• In depth experience of working within multi agency / multidisciplinary team

Desirable

• Experience of working in a community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 3 years post registration
• Experience of assisting with implementing change management programmes e.g. service development
• Experience of electronic clinical systems
• Experience participating in a research or audit project
• Experience of day to day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants
• Experience of working with single assessment process

Special Circumstances
Essential

• Able to work under pressure
• Innovative
• Able to work alone
• Ability to promote health
• Valid and current driving license or able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire

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.

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.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.