Community Nurse - Leiston

Job overview

The North East Integrated Neighbour Team are looking for Band 5 Community Nurse to join their team!

You will be passionate, committed, innovative, enthusiastic, and highly motivated to delivering high quality care within a patient's home.

The North East INT is based at Leiston Waterloo Centre, providing an opportunity to work within a knowledgeable experienced team and wider MDT.  The team consists of district & community nurses, assistant practitioners, generic workers, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and social care workers. The team is led by a lead nurse and overall managed by an INT manager, supported by an administrator and care co-ordinator.

The team is proud of their holistic care approach and work shifts covering the operational hours of 08:00 to 18:00 over 7 days but we are always happy to consider flexible working requests. The team continues to change to support developments in the NHS which includes close working relationships with the local statutory, non-statutory and voluntary services. You will be expected to work autonomously and on behalf of the patients served in the local area. You should therefore be flexible, motivated, and willing to work within a changing environment.

Due to being a community post applicants must hold a UK driving licence and have access to transport from the start of their employment.

Main duties of the job

Your duties would include wound care, leg ulcer management, pressure area care, palliative care, venepuncture, attending GP multi-disciplinary team meetings, PICC line care, male, female suprapubic 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.

The team will provide support through in-service training and professional forums, mandatory training, 1:1 and personal development meetings as well as clinical rolling skills training via the practice development facilitators. We facilitate students on training and have close working relationships with neighbouring community teams in Health and Social Care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.