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.
Responsibilities:
Take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based care for patients. Provide ongoing nursing care and support to patients and carers, promoting the role of the nurse and clinical excellence. Identify patients whose conditions become unstable and liaise with doctors and acute services appropriately. Network with other professionals in order to co-ordinate a multi-disciplinary approach to care provision. Be responsible for multi-agency care documentation in line with current practice. 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. Prioritise own workload and work autonomously when necessary. Assess the level of ongoing nursing needs for people who may need long-term care. Liaise with the patients' GP to provide sufficient information for ongoing primary care to be provided safely and efficiently.
One of the largest Trusts in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provides hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals, and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals, we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if 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. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.
To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations, you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we are keen to hear from you.
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role, please see the attached job description.
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