East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Ipswich Community Nursing team are recruiting Band 4 Nursing Associates!
We are looking for a permanent part-time band 4 Nurse Associate within the Ipswich West Community IP2 Nursing Team. You will have experience of working in a nursing team and hold a band 4 nurse associate qualification and registration with the NMC. You will be passionate, committed, innovative, enthusiastic, and highly motivated to deliver high-quality care in a community setting.
You will be supported by the Registered Nurses and Nurse Lead, while continuing to work within a knowledgeable experienced team and wider MDT. Candidates should be flexible, motivated, and willing to work within a changing environment. You will be provided 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 are ideally looking for an individual who is already completing or has already completed their Nurse Associate Course.
Main duties of the job
Your duties would include wound care, leg ulcer management, pressure area care, palliative care, venepuncture, catheter care, ordering equipment, involvement in link roles such as tissue viability, and support of students and junior staff. We offer a variety of training to upskill and maintain your clinical skills.
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 offers 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.
Job responsibilities
The Ipswich Teams are all co-located with the therapy, social care, and out of hours nursing and therapy teams based at Constantine House in Ipswich. The team consists of district nurses, junior sisters, 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.
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role, please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Foundation Degree in Health & Social Care or nursing (or working towards one)
* NMC Registration and Membership
Experience
* Recent experience in an acute and community NHS setting
* Evidence of working at an advanced level to a HCA
* Evidence of case managing patients
* Supporting junior staff and students
* Evidence of delivering appropriate standard of patient care and improving the patient experience
Knowledge
* Articulates understanding of the role of the Associate Nurse Practitioner and in line with B2 and B3 support working roles
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.
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum pro rata
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