Job overview

To work as part of urgent community response working in patient's homes across West Suffolk to deliver high quality nursing care.

You will assess, plan and deliver planned/unplanned healthcare for patients often with long term conditions and interventions will include: end of life care, palliative care, catheter care and wound care. You will want to enable patients to achieve quality of life, dignity and comfort.

You will be passionate about delivering holistic care to patients and their families.

You will be supervised by a nurse within the team and have access to training and learning opportunities across the Trust. If you are newly qualified, you will also be supported with preceptorship. 

You will work as part of an MDT who support urgent community response and at times will complete joint visits with ACPs and therapists. As a team we intercept some ambulance referrals to provide an urgent response. This is an exciting time to work in the community with developments to support care being closer to home. 

Main duties of the job

Triage, assess, plan, implement and evaluate all aspects of patient care, mainly unplanned to include palliative and end of life care, catheter care and wound care. 
You will need to be able to drive to patient's homes and have access to your own car.
Following holistic assessment, devise an individualised, evidence-based plan of care for each patient, modifying it as required. 
Assess patients’ holistic needs, communicating complex and sensitive information to patients and carers. 
Have a good understanding of palliative and end of life care, including symptom control and independent  
management of syringe pumps and end of life medication. 
Use tactful and persuasive skills to gain the patient’s co-operation in their care management plan. 
Liaise with GPs, Social Services, inpatient teams, hospice, other health care professionals and the voluntary sector to ensure identified needs are met and care co-ordinated. 
Participate in multi-disciplinary/multi-agency meetings as appropriate.
To be competent to deliver IV therapy. 

Working for our organisation

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?