# Community Staff Nurse - Thame > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-staff-nurse-thame/7c204da5-7c22-4db8-bb9c-022c86043bdb - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-staff-nurse-thame/7c204da5-7c22-4db8-bb9c-022c86043bdb.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** Amersham Hospital (current NHS organisation address) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover) - **Employment type:** Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 30 hours per week (sporadic weekends and lates) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-09T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-26T09:00:46.185Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Buckinghamshire/Thame/Buckinghamshire_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Community/Community-v8218045 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8218045?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for an aspiring individual to develop experience in the specialised area of District Nursing. This opportunity is now available in the Thame/ Princes Risborough area - 12 months contract to cover for Maternity leave. You will be supported to become a Community Nurse within a newly formed team. 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. 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. ### Main duties of the job 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. ### Detailed job description and main 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. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### EXPERIENCE **Essential** - Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas: - Care of Elderly - Community - Orthopaedics - Neurology - Respiratory - Palliative Care - Long term conditions **Desirable** - Desirable but not essential knowledge of working with a single assessment, planning and the delivery of care. - Experience of electronic clinical systems and technology e.g. RIO ### SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES **Essential** - Car driver / owner able to travel to other locations within the Trust ### EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING **Essential** - Registered Nurse or student nurse awaiting confirmation of NMC registration **Desirable** - Committed to own professional development to enhance practice - Post registration education and extended skills e.g. Intravenous drug administration, compression dressings. ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 208.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10526187) - [personal specification (pdf, 552.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10526188) - [functional requirements (pdf, 184.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10526189) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.