Occupational Therapist

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Advanced Community Practitioner to join our team. As a key member of our Thame Adult Community Health Care Team, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality patient care and contributing to the development of our services.

Main Duties

• Provide skilled and professional assessment of health needs and relevant nursing complex case management
• Proactively case find patients who are high intensity users of community and primary healthcare and/or are at high risk of unplanned admission to hospital
• Develop and implement systems and processes to support intensive case management within the multi-disciplinary team and with partners across the health system
• Work collaboratively with other agencies to enable identified patients to be intensively managed in a proactive way, with the aim of preventing hospital admission, supporting early discharge, and reducing GP contact

Working for Our Organisation

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is committed to providing a supportive and inclusive work environment that values diversity and promotes equality. We offer a range of benefits, including flexible working arrangements, generous annual leave entitlement, and access to NHS discount schemes.

Why Work for Us?

We are a values-driven organisation that prioritises patient care and staff well-being. Our CARE values - Collaborate, Aspire, Respect, and Enable - guide our decision-making and behaviour, and we are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

• Education to Degree level or equivalent competencies in health-related subjects
• Level 1 Registered Nurse
• Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification equivalent to level 3
• District Nursing SPQ
• Relevant postgraduate clinical training, e.g. Elderly, Long Term Conditions, Respiratory Disease, Cardiac Disease, Dementia, Rehabilitation, Trauma and Orthopaedics, and End of Life

Desirable Criteria

• Independent/supplementary non-medical prescriber

Experience

Essential Criteria

• Experience of working as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner/Case Manager for long-term conditions and complex case management
• Medicines management at a senior level
• Supporting self-care and enabling independence
• Professional practice and leadership
• Managing care at the end of life
• Experience of interagency and partnership working
• Developing highly specialised programmes of care, providing advice concerning treatment of patients

Skills, Abilities, and Knowledge

Essential Criteria

• Highly specialist knowledge in managing patients in the community with complex medical needs, long-term/chronic disease management, and palliative care
• Highly developed professional knowledge base, supported by educational development and different work environments
• Knowledge of current political drivers, health, and social care issues
• Specialist knowledge of governance and risk strategies and their application in a community setting
• Highly developed general management practice, including organisational performance management, finance, human resources, and equality and diversity
• Highly specialist clinical and technical skills in managing long-term conditions/end of life care
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers, and the public
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong IT skills, including Excel and PowerPoint
• Good presentation skills/public speaking
• Ability to plan and manage resources within allocated budget effectively
• Ability to work autonomously without supervision
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
• Patient-focused, responsive, and flexible, with an innovative approach to improving patient experience
• Maximising value, seeking opportunities to provide medium- to long-term value, addressing inefficiencies quickly, evaluating, and streamlining ways of working
• Achieving results, proactive, solutions-focused attitude, focuses self and team to deliver results, provides clear goals and objectives, takes responsibility for resolving problems
• Inspirational leadership, makes things happen, motivates and nurtures talent, celebrates success, manages underperformance, promotes continuous learning
• Working together, promotes cohesion and team working, works collaboratively with teams within the Trust and across the Local Health Economy, resolves conflict effectively, assertive, honest, and open

Special Circumstances

Essential Criteria

• Valid and current driving license or able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire