Community Nurse - Hartismere Hospital

East Suffolk And North Essex Nhs Foundation Trust; Tendring; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

East Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 5 Community Nurse to join the North West Integrated Neighbour Team, based at Hartismere Hospital. You will deliver high-quality nursing care in patients' homes, using excellent communication to work across professional boundaries.

You will need a valid driving licence and access to a car for community-based work, and be committed to ongoing professional development within a supportive MDT environment.

Qualifications

• RN Qualification (Part 1 of register) or equivalent.
• Current NMC registration.
• Driver with access to a car for community-based work.

Responsibilities

• For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Skills

Leadership Skills

IT skills

Driver/vehicle access

Dexterity with equipment

Observational skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Handle stressful situations

Data entry

Education

RN Qualification

NMC registration

Job description

Job summary

The North West Integrated Neighbour Team are looking for Band 5 Community Nurse to join their team at Hartismere Hospital!

You will be passionate, committed, innovative, enthusiastic, and highly motivated to delivering high quality care within a patient's home.

Do you possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work confidently and collaboratively across professional boundaries? Are you keen and motivated to learn? If so, then your skills are invaluable to us and we would like to hear from you.

Applicants need a valid drivers licence and access to a car for community-based work.

Main duties of the job

The INT's cover both beautiful rural geographical areas as well as the more urban population of the local towns providing holistic and sometimes complex nursing care within people's homes.

You will not only be working alongside other Community and District Nurses but also with a larger team of skilled Generic Support Workers, Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapists, social workers, independence wellbeing practitioners, social prescriber, Matron, care co-ordinators and team administration colleagues.

You will be committed to team work, delivering high quality patient care and have a desire for on-going professional development. This is an opportunity to work within knowledgeable experienced teams and wider MDT.

You should be flexible, motivated and able to work within a changing environment. We will provide support through in-house professional forums, Mandatory training, 1:1 and personal development meetings as well as clinical rolling skills training via the practice development facilitators. We facilitate students on training and have close working relationships with neighbouring community teams in Health and Social Care

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

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.

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualification

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

Desirable

• Leg Ulcer Management
• IV Administration / cannulatio
• ENB 998/mentorship preparation or equivalent
• Mentorship qualification

Skills

Essential

• Able to provide high standards of care
• Leadership Skills
• IT and standard keyboard skills
• Car owner/driver/access to a motor vehicle
• Able to use specialist equipment requiring a high level of dexterity
• Effective observational and reporting skills.

Experience

Essential

• Proven ability to communicate effectively
• 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
• Able to manoeuvre patients using handling aids.

Desirable

• Previous experience working in the community

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.