East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Registered Nurse - REACT
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Registered Nurse - Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team (REACT)
An exciting opportunity has risen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team (REACT) as a Registered Nurse. The REACT team is a multi-disciplinary integrated community service within ESNEFT incorporating OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotics Therapy), OOHs (Out of Hours) and Virtual Ward pathways patients.
Our team delivers excellent patient focused care to patients in the East Suffolk community. Could you be a valued key member of our team? We will offer an individually tailored induction, training and support for the successful candidate.
The role involves travelling throughout East Suffolk delivering acute care in patient’s home as a part of REACT nursing team. The post holder will be working in an internal rotation. The successful candidate will be expected to work early shifts, late and night shifts including weekends and bank holidays. During out of hours between 18:00-8:00 the Nurse will be accompanied with a Health Care Assistant. Pool cars are available for staff use; however there may be occasions where you required to use your own vehicle for work purpose. In such circumstances, business mileage can be claimed in line with personal vehicle use policies. It is essential that the post holder holds a valid driving licence and has appropriate business cover for the use of their personal vehicle for work related travel.
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Please note this role is not suitable for Newly Qualified Nurses
Responsibilities
- To assess, plan and deliver healthcare for patients, for example with long term conditions, palliative care and rehabilitation needs, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.
- To work within the integrated team to facilitate early discharge from hospital.
- To work within the integrated team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.
- To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non-statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.
- Triage, assess, plan, implement and evaluate all aspects of patient care, and develop care plans which may need to be delivered from a range of options.
- Ensure informed consent is obtained and documented prior to initiating interventions.
- Following a holistic assessment, devise an individualised, evidence-based plan of care for each patient, modifying it as required.
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.
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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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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Piia Hughes
- Job title: Clinical Team Lead
- Email address: Piia.hughes@esneft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07970 847449
If you are interested in this post, we would like to offer you an opportunity to shadow a team member to meet the team and gain insight to this role. Please call REACT office for further information or in order to arrange shadow shift. Tel: 01473 935360
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