Harm Free Care Practitioner

NHS; Colchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Harm Free Care Practitioner to join the Harm Free Care Team. The successful candidate will support Fit Testing Services and work on falls prevention, tissue viability, and continence care management across various clinical settings. The role involves hands-on patient care and collaboration with clinical teams to prevent harm and ensure patient well-being.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Flexible working options

Generous pension scheme

Access to NHS discounts

Staff Health and Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Willingness to undertake accredited Face Fit Test Certification.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Accredited Face Fit Test Certificate.

Responsibilities

• Support the Harm Free Care Team ensuring patient needs are met.
• Perform clinical documentation and observations, report changes.
• Ensure compliance with infection control policies.

Skills

Clinical Documentation

Communication

Infection Control

Patient Care

Teamwork

Education

Accredited Face Fit Test Certificate

Continuing Professional Development

Job description

Go back East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Harm Free Care Practitioner

The closing date is 16 June 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic person to join our Harm Free Care Team as a Harm Free Care Practitioner.

This is a new role to ESNEFT, and the successful candidate will support with the running of the Fit Testing Service and work the Harm Free Care Team with to support patients and clinical teams with falls prevention, Tissue viability and continence care management.

You will carry out Fit Testing clinics across ESNEFT sites, in clinic settings and in ward/department settings. This is an exciting opportunity to help set up the service with the corporate nursing team.

You will also carry out follow up visits, education and audits for all areas of Harm Free Care to ensure patients have the correct equipment and care in place. This is an exciting opportunity to support with the prevention of harm to patients from falls, pressure ulcers and continence related concerns.

We have one post in Colchester and one in Ipswich.

Main duties of the job

To support the Harm Free Care Team to ensure care for patient following specialist input is in place. This includes ensuring their physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs are met

To perform and accurately record clinical documentation and observations as required and report changes to the Ward staff and Harm Free Care Team

To be responsible for ensuring own infection control practice is in line with Trust Infection Control policies, including approved hand-washing technique.

To challenge those not following recognise infection control procedures when witnessed.

To ensure that all communication and care provision maintains the dignity and respect of all patients and their carers/relatives

To communicate effectively with patients, carers, visitors and other staff members at all times

To answer the telephone appropriately and refer callers onto the appropriate member of staff as necessary

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 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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Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Willingness to undertake accredited Face Fit Test Certification
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Accredited Face Fit Test Certificate

Experience

• Recently worked within a healthcare setting.
• Experience of acute setting
• Previous experience of Face Fit Testing using both qualitative and quantitative methods

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.

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust