We are looking for Registered Adult Nurses to work within a community integrated team as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Full Time and Part Time hours considered - Please state your preference of hours on your application.
The service provides nursing and therapeutic input to patients within their own homes with the aim of returning them to maximum independence, by actively promoting self-management on all activities of daily living.
You will support your peers and team leaders by being an effective team member whilst working on your own initiative. You will supervise pre-registration students. You will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively support and liaise with other health and social care professionals and agencies.
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* To take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating evidence based care for patients.
* To provide ongoing nursing care and support to patients and carers, promoting the role of the nurse and clinical excellence.
* To identify patients whose conditions become unstable and liaise with doctors and acute services appropriately.
* To network with other professionals in order to co-ordinate a multi-disciplinary approach to care provision.
* To be responsible for multi-agency care documentation in line with current practice.
* To ensure that patients are able to make an informed choice about their current and future care needs.
* Ensure that care is patient centred and confidentiality is maintained in line with Trust policy.
* To prioritise own workload and work autonomously when necessary.
* To assess the level of ongoing nursing needs for people who may need long term care.
* To liaise with the patients GP to provide sufficient information for ongoing primary care to be provided safely and efficiently.
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 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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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Clara Gilfillan Job title: Operational Lead Email address: Clara.Gilfillan@esneft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07944 153916 #J-18808-Ljbffr