Community Nurse - South Rural

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for permanent Band 5 Community nurses working within the South Rural Integrated Neighbourhood Team. The successful candidate will be passionate, committed, innovative, enthusiastic, and highly motivated to delivering high quality care within a patient's home.

The South Rural INT is based at Hadleigh Health Centre and East Bergholt, providing an opportunity to work within a knowledgeable experienced team and wider MDT. The successful candidate will be required to work across the South Rural INT and the wider community services to meet service requirements. 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. 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. Candidates should therefore be flexible, motivated, and willing to work within a changing environment.

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 studentsand involvement in link roles such as tissue viability.

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

Please note that Beacon House is a temporary location. This is likely to remain the teams base location for the next few years while building work is completed at the Hadleigh Health Centre. Once complete this role will be based at Hadleigh Health Centre.

About us

One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of over 11,000 amazing colleagues providing care to 800,000 residents.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health & Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

Find out about living and working with us - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Beacon House

Ipswich

IP1 5PB

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Beacon House

Ipswich

IP1 5PB

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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