Community Nurse - REACT

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 06 May 2025

Job summary

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 you.

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 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 accessible for staff to use and it is essential that post holder has valid driving licence.

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Main duties of the job

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 with the multidisciplinary team delivering Outpatient Parental Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) in the community to facilitate discharge from hospital or prevent unnecessary admission to 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.

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 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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Date posted

22 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

432-HR104-25

Job locations

Constantine House

Constantine Road

Ipswich

IP1 2DA

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Effective observational and reporting skills
Ability to be focussed undertake patient care and input accurate data/patient records
A team player
Able to work flexibly to accommodate patient/service needs
IT and standard keyboard skills
Able to manoeuvre patients using handling aids
Car owner/driver/access to a motor vehicle (role will involve travel to other sites that cannot be easily accessed by public transport means)
Leadership Skills

Qualifications

Essential

RN Qualification (Part 1 of register) or equivalent.
Current NMC registration

Desirable

IV Administration / cannulation
Catheterisation
ENB 998/mentorship preparation or equivalent
Mentorship qualification is essential for the post, but not essential at interview.
Previous experience working in the community.
Leg Ulcer Management
Venepuncture

Person Specification

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Effective observational and reporting skills
Ability to be focussed undertake patient care and input accurate data/patient records
A team player
Able to work flexibly to accommodate patient/service needs
IT and standard keyboard skills
Able to manoeuvre patients using handling aids
Car owner/driver/access to a motor vehicle (role will involve travel to other sites that cannot be easily accessed by public transport means)
Leadership Skills

Qualifications

Essential

RN Qualification (Part 1 of register) or equivalent.
Current NMC registration

Desirable

IV Administration / cannulation
Catheterisation
ENB 998/mentorship preparation or equivalent
Mentorship qualification is essential for the post, but not essential at interview.
Previous experience working in the community.
Leg Ulcer Management
Venepuncture

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.