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East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Community Nurse - Leiston

The closing date is 28 August 2025

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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 studentsand 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 thatTime Mattersto 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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Details

Date posted

15 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

432-HR592-25

Job locations

Waterloo Centre

Leiston

IP16 4HF


Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working with professionals from other disciplines
  • Experience of working as a member of a team but also able to work autonomously
  • Be able to demonstrate good leadership qualities
  • Advanced clinical skills with experience in the management of complex/long-term patient care

Desirable

  • Community Experience
  • Experience of managing/leading a team
  • Proven experience post qualification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Evidence of recent CPD
  • RGN/RN ADULT, with current NMC Registration

Desirable

  • Mentorship qualification
  • Management/Leadership qualification

Knowledge

Essential

  • The concept of patient centred care
  • Importance of promoting self-care and independence
  • To understand the role of the community nurse and it's purpose
  • Ability to work on own initiative, assess patients competently and link with colleagues in the wider MDT to tailor plans of care
  • Ability to effectively manage the workload, prioritise and delegate to manage capacity and demand

Desirable

  • Understanding of integration
  • Knowledge of the key NHS national polies & strategies
  • Transferrable clinical skills

Skills

Essential

  • IT literate e.g. Word processing, internet and e-mail use
  • Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Ability to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the service (0800 - 1800, 7 days a week)
  • Applicant will need to be car driver with valid UK and have access to a car for work purposes
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Be able to prioritise tasks and delegate appropriately whilst continuing to manage time effectively
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working with professionals from other disciplines
  • Experience of working as a member of a team but also able to work autonomously
  • Be able to demonstrate good leadership qualities
  • Advanced clinical skills with experience in the management of complex/long-term patient care

Desirable

  • Community Experience
  • Experience of managing/leading a team
  • Proven experience post qualification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Evidence of recent CPD
  • RGN/RN ADULT, with current NMC Registration

Desirable

  • Mentorship qualification
  • Management/Leadership qualification

Knowledge

Essential

  • The concept of patient centred care
  • Importance of promoting self-care and independence
  • To understand the role of the community nurse and it's purpose
  • Ability to work on own initiative, assess patients competently and link with colleagues in the wider MDT to tailor plans of care
  • Ability to effectively manage the workload, prioritise and delegate to manage capacity and demand

Desirable

  • Understanding of integration
  • Knowledge of the key NHS national polies & strategies
  • Transferrable clinical skills

Skills

Essential

  • IT literate e.g. Word processing, internet and e-mail use
  • Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Ability to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the service (0800 - 1800, 7 days a week)
  • Applicant will need to be car driver with valid UK and have access to a car for work purposes
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Be able to prioritise tasks and delegate appropriately whilst continuing to manage time effectively

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Waterloo Centre

Leiston

IP16 4HF


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Waterloo Centre

Leiston

IP16 4HF


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

District Nurse

Laura Elliott

laura.elliott@esneft.nhs.uk

07940478816

Details

Date posted

15 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

432-HR592-25

Job locations

Waterloo Centre

Leiston

IP16 4HF


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