Job summary
The East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust is looking for a dynamic, flexible and conscientious Nurse to join the South Rural Integrated Neighbourhood team, based at Beacon House, Ipswich, IP1 5PB Our Rural Community covers Shotley/Holbrook, Capel and East Bergholt, Hadleigh and Bilderston GP Practices Working within a community-based integrated team, you will have the opportunity to support safe, effective care, delivering nursing services such as wound care, medication administration, chronic disease monitoring, health education, and care coordination to support independence and prevent hospital admissions. Within the role you will work in a variety of settings, people's own homes, care homes and clinic spaces. You will need good IT skills and literacy on the use of Systm1 to support you in your recording of interactions. You will need to develop confidence in lone working and time management - seeking escalation and support as appropriate. As part of the integrated team, you will also work alongside our generic workers, social care practitioners, care-coordinator, community and voluntary partners utilising an MDT to achieve best outcomes for our patients. You will have a mindset to promote independence for activities of daily living and encourage self-care wherever possible.

Main duties of the job

• To assist in the delivery of high standards of healthcare to patients within their own homes and in clinics, by carrying out planned care.
• To provide high standard of care to the patients whilst promoting independence and respecting their privacy and that of their families.
• To undertake delegated assessments and deliver healthcare for patients.
• To work alongside the integrated team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.
• To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.
• Complete delegated assessments and apply competency based treatment/care/interventions to patients.
• Understand own role in delivering care, enabling or providing interventions and treatments to meet individual's needs.
• Ensure digital patient records are completed for each intervention, in a timely manner.

Essential qualifications

• RN Qualification (Part 1 of register) or equivalent.
• Current NMC registration.

Desirable qualifications

• Leg Ulcer Management.
• IV Administration / cannulation.
• ENB 998/mentorship preparation or equivalent.
• Mentorship qualification is essential for the post, but not essential at interview.
• Previous experience working in the community.

Essential experience

• Proven ability to communicate effectively using the English language (written and verbal), including where there are barriers to understanding.
• Providing high standards of care.
• Proven ability to use own initiative.
• Demonstrated ability to manage stressful situations.
• Ability to undertake patient care and input accurate data/patient records.
• Experience working in a team.
• IT and standard keyboard skills.
• Able to manoeuvre patients using handling aids.
• Clinical reasoning skills.

Working at ESNEFT
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Apply through our website

Contact: Julia Parish - Julia.Parish.ex@esneft.nhs.uk

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.