About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, motivated and proactive Nurse Specialist to join our Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team (REACT).
REACT is an innovative multidisciplinary community service within ESNEFT, bringing together Urgent Community Response (UCR), Hospital at Home, OPAT and Out of Hours pathways to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care closer to home. The service works closely with the East of England Ambulance Service, Hospital at Home, Integrated Neighbourhood Teams and acute services to support admission avoidance and deliver rapid intervention for patients experiencing acute deterioration in the community.
As a Nurse Specialist, you will play a key role in reducing hospital admissions, supporting early discharge, and improving health outcomes through coordinated, holistic care.
This role offers the opportunity to influence the development of innovative community pathways, strengthen system-wide relationships and contribute to the ongoing transformation of urgent community care services across East Suffolk.
This is an exciting time to join the team as we navigate a period of NHS-led transformation. You will have the opportunity to work within an evolving service, gaining valuable experience and contributing to the delivery of new models of care as healthcare services continue to develop.
Main duties of the job
Provide skilled nursing clinical expertise with specialised knowledge in admission avoidance, frailty and caring for the older person in the community. To provide professional leadership involving recruitment, supervision, appraisal and support and development of staff Provide excellent shift leadership skills ensuring patient flow and optimising staffing capacity to reach the patient demand. To promote high standards of professional practice and the leadership of delivery of quality care. Plan and provide highly specialised training/education programmes for nurses, therapists, and other disciplines in relation to admission avoidance.
Maintain a high level of awareness of relevant research trends and national recommendations regarding admission avoidance and older persons care/frailty and admission avoidance. In partnership with the REACT service lead, Finance Advisor and Human Resource Manager ensure budget setting and department finance issues are maximised to effect positive performance targets. To be responsible and accountable for ensuring the REACT team complies with clinical governance and quality.
About us
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in the region, employing over 12,000 staff. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester & Ipswich, six community hospitals, clinics and patient's homes.
Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.
Talk to us about our range of flexible working opportunities, apprenticeships and staff benefits
Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of ESNEFTs core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, procedures and in its practices and to foster positive work relationships. The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values of Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan and Staff Standards, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information about this role please contact:
Rebecca Parles - React Clinical Lead - [email protected]
Working at ESNEFT
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 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.
Sponsorship Eligibility
To comply with UK Government regulations on sponsorship we are unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold. Full guidance on sponsorship can be found Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK
Please note that where response levels are exceptional we may close the post before the specified date, therefore early application is recommended.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
Experience
Essential
- Proven post registration experience
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 details
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Constantine House
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP1 2DH
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)