Community Nurse - Leiston

East Suffolk And North Essex Nhs Foundation Trust; Leiston; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

East Suffolk And North Essex Nhs Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 5 Community Nurse to join the North East Integrated Neighbour Team. You will provide high quality care in patients' homes, showing commitment, enthusiasm and flexibility in a 08:00–18:00 seven day service.

The role involves working with district and community nurses, therapists and social care colleagues, with broad opportunities for training and professional development within a supportive MDT.

Qualifications

• RN Qualification (Part 1 of register) or equivalent.
• Current NMC registration.
• Experience in community nursing is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide wound care and leg ulcer management.
• Deliver palliative care and venepuncture.
• Attend GP MDT meetings and PICC line care.
• Mentor students and engage in tissue viability link roles.
• Order equipment and support colleagues in community setting.

Skills

Observational skills

IT skills

Leadership

Manual handling

Clinical reasoning

Car owner/driver

Education

RN Qualification (Part 1 of register)

Current NMC registration

Job description

Job summary

The North East Integrated Neighbour Team are looking for Band 5 Community Nurse to join their team!

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

The North East INT is based at Leiston Waterloo Centre, providing an opportunity to work within a knowledgeable experienced team and wider MDT. The team consists of district & community nurses, assistant practitioners, generic workers, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and social care workers. The team is led by a lead nurse and overall managed by an INT manager, supported by an administrator and care co-ordinator.

The team is proud of their holistic care approach and work shifts covering the operational hours of 08:00 to 18:00 over 7 days but we are always happy to consider flexible working requests. The team continues to change to support developments in the NHS which includes close working relationships with the local statutory, non-statutory and voluntary services. You will be expected to work autonomously and on behalf of the patients served in the local area. You should therefore be flexible, motivated, and willing to work within a changing environment.

Due to being a community post applicants must hold a UK driving licence and have access to transport from the start of their employment.

Main duties of the job

Your duties would include wound care, leg ulcer management, pressure area care, palliative care, venepuncture, attending GP multi-disciplinary team meetings, PICC line care, male, female suprapubic catheterisation, ordering equipment, support and mentoring of students and involvement in link roles such as tissue viability.

We offer a variety of training to up skill and maintain your clinical skills.

The team will provide support through in-service training and 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 the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, 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.

Qualifications

Essential

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

Desirable

• 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.

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge

Essential

• Effective observational and reporting skills
• IT and standard keyboard skills
• Leadership Skills
• Able to manoeuvre patients using handling aids
• Able to manoeuvre patients using handling aid
• Clinical reasoning skills
• Car owner/driver/access to a motor vehicle (role will involve travel to other sites that cannot be easily accessed by public transport means)

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. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).