District Nurse / Junior Sister - Ipswich Community

Your duties will include shared management ofa community nursing team with other District Nurse and Junior Sisters.

Other duties will include Triage, caseload management, wound care, leg ulcer management, pressure area care, palliative care, venepuncture, attending GP multi-disciplinary team meetings, PICC line care, male, female, supra-pubic catheterisation, ordering equipment, support and mentoring of students and involvement in link roles such as tissue viability.

We offer a variety of training to up skill and maintain your clinical skills., 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 offer 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.

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Are you an experienced band 5 nurse wishing to explore your potential for career progression? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time Band 6 District Nurse or Junior Sister post working within the IP2 Ipswich West Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) . The team is co-located with its Ipswich East INT at Constantine House at the centre of Ipswich.

The Ipswich West INT is working towards a fully integrated model of health and social care. The team consists of District Nurses/Junior Sisters, Community Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Assistant Practitioners, Generic Workers, and Social Workers. The team is overseen by an INT manager, supported by a Care Coordinator and Administrator.

Previous Band 6 experience relevant to the role will be an advantage, but full training and support will be given. You will be supported in developing your own clinical and leadership practice by the Band 7 nurse lead and your peer band 6 nurses and will have the opportunity to be involved with local and service wide development or innovation.

Due to this post being a community post it is essential for the successful candidate to be able to drive from day one of employment., One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide 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.