Specialist Stroke Nurse - ESD Stroke

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Nurse to join the Suffolk Stroke Early Supported Discharge (ESD) Team. This full-time, permanent role supports stroke patients and their carers in the first six weeks after hospital discharge, delivering specialist rehabilitation in home and community settings.

You will work within an interdisciplinary team across the Suffolk Stroke Pathway, supervising junior staff and students and contributing to service development, quality improvement and

Responsibilities

• Support stroke survivors to achieve maximum independence and rehabilitation potential through comprehensive assessment and specialist stroke care.
• Collaborate across the Suffolk Stroke Pathway to ensure seamless transitions from acute hospital care to community services.
• Manage patients with complex needs and provide supervision and support to junior staff and students.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement and data collection across the service.
• Travel across the county; opportunities for professional development and supervision.

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Nurse to join our Suffolk Stroke Early Supported Discharge (ESD) Team.

The Stroke Early Supported Discharge service provides specialist individualised stroke rehabilitation, in order to support stroke patients and their carers’ in the first 6 weeks of discharge from hospital to home.

We are looking for a Band 6 Nurse for a full-time, permanent position. We work as an interdisciplinary team, which operates 7 days a week. The interdisciplinary team consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Stroke Specialist Nurse, Clinical Neuropsychologist and Rehabilitation Assistants.

Working across patients’ homes and community settings, you will support stroke survivors to achieve maximum independence and rehabilitation potential through comprehensive assessment and specialist stroke care.

You will work collaboratively across the Suffolk Stroke Pathway to ensure seamless transitions from acute hospital care into community services, manage patients with complex needs, provide supervision and support to junior staff and students, and contribute to service development, quality improvement and data collection across the service.

This post would allow you to develop your knowledge and skills in the area of specialist stroke rehabilitation with support from both the Team Leader and the wider inter-disciplinary teams. There will be opportunities for professional development and supervision. The successful candidate will have access to both the Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich offices and will be expected to travel across the whole of the county of Suffolk.

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children’s ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ehab Georgy Job title: Suffolk ESD Service Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07915 903171