Community Clinic Nurse

Welcome to Lowestoft Primary Care Home (PCH) team.

Are you a Registered Nurse (Adult) with a passion for wound healing and leg ulcer diagnosis and treatment? Do you want to progress your nursing career with a supportive and encouraging team, delivering person centred care in a clinic and occasional home setting? Utilising health coaching to support patient involvement in shared decision making.

Do you like the idea of forming longer term therapeutic relationships with patients and their families?

The wider PCH is a multidisciplinary team delivering health care to people in the coastal town of Lowestoft. The combined skills of the team mean they are able to respond to the changing needs of patients and support those who may previously been admitted to hospital to remain  leg ulcer clinic is vaulable asset within the PCH delivering specialsied leg ulcer care to patients who are not housebound.

The clinic operates Monday to Friday 08:30- 16:30 excluding bank holidays.

This post is offered up to 37.5 hours per week.

As a Leg clinic nurse you will be providing an excellent standard of person centered care to adults with a lower leg wound in a clinic setting and occasionally their own home.

You will participate in the planning and efficient running of the leg ulcer clinic at Kirkley mill and may on occasion work from other clinic sites.

This role includes triage of incoming referrals, determining clinical priority, completing holistic patient assessment, specific wound assessments including recording dopplers, diagnosis and treatment plan, for patients referred to the service. Supporting patients to self care using health coaching.

You will be supported to complete the leg ulcer management course delivered in partnership with Accelerate CIC, and a health coaching qualification. You will be encouraged to continue your own professional development and contribute to service improvement. You will be part of the PCH support for students; those on an apprenticeship route and newly qualified nurses. Once experienced you will be a knowledgeable resource on leg ulceration to the wider PCH;

other ECCH clinicians; primary care and other partners.

For further information or an informal visit please email the Lead Nurse

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.

We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website -(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.

At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

We encourage you to apply as early as possible as this job may close earlier than the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received.

Lowestoft Primary Care Home is a multidisciplinary clinical team of health and social care professionals working in partnership with Primary Care, Social Services, social care providers, other specialist community health teams and voluntary sector providers to ensure patients are able to remain in their own homes whenever possible.

Contribute to, support and promote ECCHs, strategic direction, values and culture in relation to proactive services. Contribute to, support and promote ECCHs,strategic direction, values and culture in relation to proactive services.

Communicate effectively with patients, relatives and carers, respecting patient confidentiality with privacy and respect for diverse cultural backgrounds and requirements.

Communicate complex, sensitive or contentious information to patients, relatives or carers,where persuasive, motivational, negotiating and empathetic skills are required.

To actas a resource for community nursing colleagues and other health professionals regarding leg ulcer management across the Primary Care Networks.

To participate in teaching and clinical supervision of support workers and other provider staff as required.

Toprovide mentorship to pre and post registration students.

To contribute to the clinical governance agenda through participation in clinical risk assessment and management.

To critically evaluate research findings, national guidelines and support the implementation of changes in clinical practice as appropriate.

To participate in clinical trials as required.

To makea positive contribution to excellent communications within the organisation.

Work Together, Achieve Together

To contribute to the delivery of the Lower Limb Pathway, providing management oflower leg ulceration in a clinical setting within agreed time frames.

Tocreate an environment conducive to effective…