Job summary
- Main area
- Older Peoples Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 432-HR1518-24
- Employer
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ipswich Hospital
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Nurse Consultant - Older Peoples Services
NHS AfC: Band 8b
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.
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Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of the ESNEFT’s 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, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole. The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Job overview
Integrated pathways are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate candidate to join the department of Older People’s Services at Ipswich Hospital, part of East Suffolk and North East Essex foundation nurse consultant. The post holder will be an experienced advanced level practitioner with a non-medical prescribing qualification, autonomous, expert skills in assessment, examination and providing diagnosis and management for patients across acute and community settings.
There has never been a more exciting time to join our team and work with us to develop integrated frailty services to meet the needs of our older population, enabling them to age well and with dignity in an ever-changing landscape. We don’t believe in always doing the same things and we welcome individuals who can bring new ideas and thoughts to the table.
The integrated pathways division has the older people’s services, therapies and community services for Ipswich and East Suffolk sitting within the same division allowing acute geriatric services to work seamlessly with community services and allows the flexibility to meet patient needs wherever they may be.
Main duties of the job
You will join a team of skilled frailty interface practitioners including nurses, therapists and Geriatricians. These services reach into the front door emergency department assessing our frail patients at the point of need and helping to streamline their care. Assessment will also take place in the frailty assessment base where a multidisciplinary team can provide acute and complex care. There will be an integral link with our reactive emergency assessment community team working towards conveyance and admission avoidance.
You will practice in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team and play an integral role in leading service development. The nurse consultant would manage the full frailty team as well as the community hospitals ACPs and ensure continuous development of clinical practice, research and standard of care. The development of the integrated frailty service will include developing policy, guidelines and pathways to ensure older and frail people have seamless access to the right care in the right place at the right time.
Working for our organisation
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
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.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Recently and actively working in clinical practice
- • Evidence of admission avoidance and community working
- • Evidence of leadership skills that are capable of establishing direction and purpose
- • Effective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills
- • Evidence of experience in the analysing of data/compiling of reports and achieved actions.
- • Evidence of clinical expertise and knowledge acquired through CPD and experience
- • Evidence of implementing innovative practice
- • Evidence of leading change
- • Clinical Governance knowledge
- • Decision making / critical analysis
- • Ability to work within the multi-professional team at all levels both within the organisation and with key stakeholders
- • Influencing skills
- • Good time management skills and ability to manage professional workload.
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of carrying out investigations and writing reports
- • Evidence of operating at strategic level to positively affect service outcomes
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Master’s degree in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent
- • Non-Medical Prescribing
- • Demonstrates specialist knowledge relating to care of older people
- • Evidence of continuing professional development
- • Mental Capacity Act awareness training
- • Completion of Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults Level 2 training
- • Computer literacy
Desirable criteria
- • Recognised professional post basic qualification in the care of older people or dementia care
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vicky Thompson
- Job title
- Associate Director of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
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