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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?

We are developing the Integrated Care Model and therefore have close, co-located working relationships with our Social Care colleagues, thus providing a holistic, joined –up service for our patients.

An exciting opportunity for a Community Generic Worker has arisen in the Sudbury Community Health Team. The team are based in the modern Health Centre in Sudbury which is a historic market town surrounded by picturesque villages. The Sudbury Health Centre is the base for a wide range of other health professionals and agencies including Adult Social Care and a GP practice so we are able to work together in a fully integrated way. The successful applicant will join a dynamic, friendly team of community nurses and therapists.

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Following training, as required, to use skills from the professional areas of Nursing, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, you will be providing nursing and therapy support to patients in the community.

You will be visiting patients in their own homes and implementing the patient’s individualised care plan designed by the nurses and therapists.  Some of your duties may include carrying out home exercise programmes, 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 will be needed including skills and understanding of community based work. an advantage. You will have the chance to be fully involved in working with the Multidisciplinary Team and integrating with Social Care and hospital based staff, as part of our Hospital At Home service. You will need to be committed to ongoing learning and development within the WSFT Community Service.

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#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?