Assistant Practitioner | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,071 - £25,674 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 October 2024 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 9YQ |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6622445/432-HR1184-24 |
Summary
Are you a dedicated and compassionate individual looking to contribute to high standards of healthcare within a community setting? Join our Community Integrated Team as a Community Assistant Practitioner. Our multidisciplinary team provides essential nursing and therapeutic care to patients in their own homes between 0800 – 1800, 7 days a week, with the goal of promoting self-management and returning patients to maximum independence in their daily activities.
By joining our team, you will be part of a supportive and innovative community-focused service. You will have the opportunity to make a real difference in patients' lives by providing high-quality care and supporting their journey to maximum independence.
If you are passionate about patient care and eager to be a vital part of a multidisciplinary team, we encourage you to apply.
Clinical Assessments: Assess patients with straightforward requirements based on predetermined department protocols.
Treatment Preparation & Monitoring: Prepare for, carry out & monitor assessments & treatments in specified clinical areas & discharge patients in line with predetermined department protocols.
Competency-Based Care: Apply competency-based treatment techniques & care to patients with specific conditions under the supervision of a qualified practitioner, following a prescribed treatment/care plan.
Ongoing Nursing Care: Provide ongoing nursing care & support to patients & carers, promoting the role of the nurse & clinical excellence.
Liaison & Networking: Identify patients whose conditions become unstable & liaise with registered practitioners, doctors & acute services appropriately. Network with other professionals to coordinate a multidisciplinary approach to care provision.
Documentation & Information Sharing: Be responsible for multi-agency care documentation in line with current practice, ensuring patients can make informed choices about their current & future care needs. Liaise with patients' GPs to provide sufficient information for ongoing primary care.
Patient-Centred Care: Ensure that care is patient-centred & confidentiality is maintained in line with Trust policy.
Work Autonomously: Prioritise your own workload & work autonomously when necessary, supporting your peers & team leaders by being an effective team member while working on your own initiative.
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 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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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Thursday 19 Sep 2024