East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Registered Nurse - REACT
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Senior Registered Nurse - REACT
An exciting opportunity has risen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team (REACT) as a Senior 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.
Role Overview
The role involves travelling throughout East Suffolk delivering acute care in patient’s home as a part of REACT nursing team, both during core hours and out of hours. The post holder will be working in an internal rotation. The successful candidate will be expected to work a mixture of shifts that include the following: 11-11 triage shifts, early (0800-1600), late (1500-2300), twilight (1800-2300) and night shifts (2230-0830) including weekends and bank holidays as the service requires. During out of hours between 18:00-8:00 the Nurse will be accompanied with a Health Care Assistant. Pool cars are accessible for staff to use and it is essential that post holder has valid driving licence.
Responsibilities
Core Hours:
- Working in partnership with the OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy) to administer intravenous antibiotics via PICC line or cannula for patients receiving antibiotics in community.
- Assessment and delivery of care to patients in crisis to allow admission prevention.
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Out of Hours:
- Routine and emergency response to wound care, catheter care for all types of catheters, diabetic care, End of Life care, Anticoagulant medication, Pressure Area care, Venepuncture and Sub cut Fluids in order to ensure 24 hours Nursing care cover in community.
- Liaising with District nursing service to ensure continuity of care and another community services where needed.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Being the shifts team lead, triaging and co-ordinating case load, scheduling visits, carrying out appraisals and clinical supervision for more junior staff.
- Supporting senior management in daily running of the team and promoting change.
Requirements
- Motivated, flexible and committed to working in a changing environment.
Professional Development
We are committed to supporting you in your professional development ensuring you have opportunities to attend appropriate training to support you to reach your potential.
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.
Benefits
- Wide range of training and development opportunities.
- Flexible working options.
- Generous pension scheme.
- Unsocial hours payments (where applicable).
- 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata).
- Access to a range of NHS discounts.
- Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offering a variety of services.
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Our Philosophy
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
Shadowing Opportunity
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 into this role. Please call REACT office for further information or in order to arrange shadow shift.
- Tel: 01473 935360
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