Nurse Consultant - Older Peoples Services
Job Description
Job summary
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.
About us
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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Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- oRecently and actively working in clinical practice
- oEvidence of admission avoidance and community working
- oEvidence of leadership skills that are capable of establishing direction and purpose
- oEffective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills
- oEvidence of experience in the analysing of data/compiling of reports and achieved actions.
- oEvidence of clinical expertise and knowledge acquired through CPD and experience
- oEvidence of implementing innovative practice
- oEvidence of leading change
- oClinical Governance knowledge
- oDecision making / critical analysis
- oAbility to work within the multi-professional team at all levels both within the organisation and with key stakeholders
- oInfluencing skills
- oGood time management skills and ability to manage professional workload.
Desirable
- oEvidence of carrying out investigations and writing reports
- oEvidence of operating at strategic level to positively affect service outcomes
Qualifications
Essential
- oMaster's degree in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent
- oNon-Medical Prescribing
- oDemonstrates specialist knowledge relating to care of older people
- oEvidence of continuing professional development
- oMental Capacity Act awareness training
- oCompletion of Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults Level 2 training
- oComputer literacy
Desirable
- oRecognised professional post basic qualification in the care of older people or dementia care
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Ipswich Hospital
Ipswich
IP4 5PD
