Community Nurse - REACT

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for passionate individuals to join a dynamic community team as a Registered Nurse. This role involves delivering high-quality patient care in the comfort of homes across East Suffolk, ensuring independence and quality of life for patients. The position offers a tailored induction and ongoing support, with flexible working options and a commitment to staff development. Join a leading NHS organization that values your contributions and invests in your career growth. If you are dedicated to patient care and eager to enhance your skills, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Generous Pension Scheme

27 Days Annual Leave

NHS Discounts

Health and Wellbeing Programme

Flexible Working Options

Training and Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with a focus on community health.
• Experience in delivering acute care in home settings.

Responsibilities

• Assess and deliver healthcare for patients in their homes.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to facilitate hospital discharges.

Skills

Patient Care

Assessment Skills

Communication Skills

Teamwork

Driving License

Education

Registered Nurse Qualification

Nursing Degree

Tools

Electronic Patient Record System

Job description

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An exciting opportunity has risen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team (REACT) as a Registered Nurse. The REACT team is a multi-disciplinary integrated community service within ESNEFT incorporating OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotics Therapy), OOHs (Out of Hours) and Virtual Ward pathways patients.

Our team delivers excellent patient focused care to patients in the East Suffolk community. Could you be a valued key member of our team? We will offer an individually tailored induction, training and support for you.

The role involves travelling throughout East Suffolk delivering acute care in patient’s home as a part of REACT nursing team, both during core hours and out of hours. The post holder will be working in an internal rotation. The successful candidate will be expected to work early shifts, late and night shifts including weekends and bank holidays. During out of hours between 18:00-8:00 the Nurse will be accompanied with a Health Care Assistant. Pool cars are accessible for staff to use and it is essential that post holder has valid driving licence.

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• To assess, plan and deliver healthcare for patients, for example with long term conditions, palliative care and rehabilitation needs, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.
• To work with the multidisciplinary team delivering Outpatient Parental Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) in the community to facilitate discharge from hospital or prevent unnecessary admission to hospital
• To work within 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.
  
  

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 organisations 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.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Piia Hughes Job title: Lead Nurse Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07970847449

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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