Community Nurse - Woodbridge Clinic

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 5 Community Nurse working within the Woodbridge Integrated Neighbourhood Team. We are a busy dynamic team who actively support staff new to the community. The position being offered is on a permanent basis at 22.5 hours per week. Experience is preferred but not essential as full training will be given.

The motivated and forward-thinking team consists of Nurses, Occupational therapists, Physiotherapists, Social Workers and Support Staff. The team also work closely with other internal and external services or agencies.

The primary function of the Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) is to provide healthcare in the patient/customers home environment. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team providing interventions, such as short-term rehabilitation, wound care, and end of life care. The INT also supports with admission avoidance, timely discharge, and promotion of independence through holistic assessment and informed choice. In addition to the visiting patients/customers within their own environment, the team also have the use of a gym and clinic setting at Stow Lodge Centre. These spaces are used to run clinics, such as Falls Clinic, Better Balance group, Leg Ulcer clinic, catheter clinic, PICC Line Care.

The team work closely with 7 GP practices and there is a wealth of experience and knowledge within the current members of the team.

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Main duties of the job

An exciting rotational opportunity has arisen within Woodbridge's well established leg ulcer clinic with the opportunity to rotate into the community nursing teams, as well as to support with the delivery of our other non-housebound clinic which manages other care needs, such as catheter care, PICC line management, rocket drain management and VAC therapy.

Leg ulcers are of huge socio-economic importance costing the NHS over one billion pounds per year. There are in excess of 100,000 active venous ulcers in the UK at any one time, 80% of these have treatment that is based in the community.

We are looking for a permanent band 5 registered nurse to be contracted for 22.5 Hours a week.

The Woodbridge leg ulcer clinic runs a busy clinic treating all ambulant leg ulcer patients across Woodbridge. It operates 1 clinic room currently located at our Woodbridge Integrated Clinic at Riduna Park in Melton, 3 days a week and is very successful with meeting government healing targets. It is run by a small well knowledgeable specialist team made up of a total of 2 trained staff.

Woodbridge has a large community nursing service offering holistic and sometimes complex care in people's homes. You will not only be working alongside other Community and District Nurses but also with a larger team of phlebotomists, assistant practitioners, skilled Generic Support Workers, Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapists and team administration colleagues.

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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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Riduna Park

Woodbridge

IP12 1QT

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

Riduna Park

Woodbridge

IP12 1QT

Employer's website

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

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