Job overview

Are you looking for a change and a challenge? Do you want to broaden your knowledge and skills and join an innovative developing Healthcare Service at the leading edge of Integrated Community Care?

An exciting opportunity for a Community Generic Worker has arisen in the Bury Town Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT).  The team is made up of nursing, therapy and community matrons and work closely with colleagues across health and social care.

The team are based in Technology House in the historic market town of Bury St Edmunds surrounded by picturesque countryside and villages.

The INTs are a dynamic and exciting place to work and offers opportunity to develop and learn in a friendly and supported way.

If your excited about the idea of providing high levels of care to people in their own homes then we're wanting to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

Following training and development as required you will be providing nursing and therapy support to patients in the community.

You will be visiting patients in their own homes and delivering care in line with treatment plans in place by District Nurses within your team. Some of your duties would include phlebotomy, wound care, administering insulin to stable diabetic patients and monitoring basic physical observations for good health.

As well as the essential person specifications as on the job description, you will need to have good communication skills, initiative, and be flexible.

Experience of working in the health and social care field would be an advantage.

There is opportunity to develop and engage with learning with community working offering the scope to learn new skills and ways of working.

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?