Are you a nurse who strives to make a positive difference to the lives of our patients?
Do you have the passion, drive and ability to deliver high quality person-centred compassionate care in line with the Trust’s organisational vision and values?
If the answer is yes, then this exciting opportunity to join our Integrated Pain Management Service (IPMS) at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust could be the perfect career move for you.
If you are motivated, passionate about delivering quality care with a chronic pain service then we have the job for you. You would be covering the West Suffolk Area via clinics and education programmes done virtually and face-to-face.
Essential elements of the role include assessing, planning and the implementation of holistic packages of care to patients and their carer’s who have a diagnosis of chronic pain. Working as an autonomous clinician you will provide care including the timely optimisation of evidence based treatment. The main aim of the role is to support people with chronic pain to manage their condition, improve function and fitness for purpose whilst preventing unnecessary admissions to hospital through the optimisation of evidence based treatment.
The successful candidate will need to be an RCN registered prescribing (or soon to be) nurse who has capability to appropriately triage patients and conduct comprehensive specialist biopsychosocial assessments or ability to develop these skills. You should have experience in delivering individual and group-based intervention. You must understand or be developing your current pain science understanding and your approach needs to be based upon delivering psychologically informed interventions for people living with persistent pain. You need to demonstrate tangible results and commitment to providing excellent personalised care. Experience in audit and outcome measures would be desirable. You will also be expected to be part of our acute pain rounds on wards and intervention less run by our doctors
In Return We Will Offer
Regular clinical supervision.
Regular appraisals.
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dawn Pretty Job title: Lead Pain Nurse Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 01284 713663
