Nurse Consultant - Older Peoples Services

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.

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.

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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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Vicky Thompson Job title: Associate Director of Nursing Email address: [email protected]