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Specialist Nurse - REACT | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 21 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 September 2024 |
| Location: | Ipswich, IP1 2DH |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6585678/432-HR1067-24 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has risen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team (REACT) as a Band 7 Nurse. The REACT team is a multi-disciplinary integrated community service within ESNEFT incorporating, Urgent Community Response service, OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotics Therapy), OOHs (Out of Hours) and Virtual Ward pathways patients. This role will be working for our Urgent Community Response Team which has developed pathways with East of England Ambulance Service and the Frailty Virtual Ward, two new and exciting government initiatives.
Our team delivers excellent patient focused care to patients in Ipswich and the East Suffolk community. Could you be a valued key member of our team?
The role will be for up to 37.5 hours per week, including weekdays & weekends.
The purpose of this role is to provide highly skilled Nursing within REACT. This role will have specific links with East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Ipswich ED and Community stakeholders. You will:
• Provide skilled nursing clinical expertise with specialised knowledge in admission avoidance, frailty and caring for the older person in the community.
• To provide professional leadership involving recruitment, supervision, appraisal and support and development of staff
• Provide excellent shift leadership skills ensuring patient flow and optimising staffing capacity to reach the patient demand.
• To promote high standards of professional practice and the leadership of delivery of quality care.
• Plan and provide highly specialised training/education programmes for nurses, therapists, and other disciplines in relation to admission avoidance.
• Maintain a high level of awareness of relevant research trends and national recommendations regarding admission avoidance and older person’s care/frailty and admission avoidance.
• In partnership with the REACT service lead, Finance Advisor and Human Resource Manager ensure budget setting and department finance issues are maximised to effect positive performance targets.
• To be responsible and accountable for ensuring the REACT team complies with clinical governance and quality.
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 & 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 thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff & 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 bringwhat’swidely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff & patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.Find out about living & working herewww.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Sep 2024