Senior Registered Nurse - REACT
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 18/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Registered Nurse to join the Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team (REACT) in East Suffolk. The role involves delivering acute care in patients' homes, including administering intravenous antibiotics, wound care, catheter care, and End of Life care. You will also act as a shift team lead, triaging cases, scheduling visits, and providing clinical supervision to junior staff. The position requires working a mixture of shifts, including core hours, out of hours, weekends, and bank holidays.
Essential criteria
- Experience leading teams
- Clinical expertise
- Coaching/Mentoring
- Managing change
- Evidence of managing and improving the patient experience
- Previous acute, primary care or community experience
- Triage experience
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience at Band 6
- Evidence of involvement in research and audit
- Evidence of teaching/assessing
- Interviewing recruitment skills
- Registered Nurse First Level
- Post registration qualification relevant to area up to post graduate diploma level
- Nursing / Management degree
- Willingness to undertake further academic study
- NVQ assessors qualification
- Leadership modules/ course undertaken
- Sound evidence of clinical ability
- Articulates understanding role of Band 6
- Articulates understanding role of Band 6, prioritising clinical issues, & managing clinical risk
- Provides evidence of ability to make changes in nursing practice
- Ability to recognise a deteriorating patient and escalate the patient to the relevant professionals/ agencies/ services in a timely manner.
- Good knowledge and understanding of diabetes management
- Good knowledge and understanding of End of Life Care/ management
- Sickness absence management
- Rota management
- Knowledge of the different teams/ services within REACT
- Knowledge and understanding of the 2 hour urgent community response (UCR)
- Knowledge of community databases such as EPIC
- Able to request and translate blood results
- Ability to undertake audits
- Experience leading teams
- Clinical expertise
- Coaching/Mentoring
- Managing change
- Evidence of managing and improving the patient experience
- Previous acute, primary care or community experience
- Triage experience
- Previous experience at Band 6
- Evidence of involvement in research and audit
- Evidence of teaching/assessing
- Interviewing recruitment skills
- Registered Nurse First Level
- Post registration qualification relevant to area up to post graduate diploma level
- Nursing / Management degree
- Willingness to undertake further academic study
- NVQ assessors qualification
- Leadership modules/ course undertaken
- Sound evidence of clinical ability
- Articulates understanding role of Band 6
- Articulates understanding role of Band 6, prioritising clinical issues, & managing clinical risk
- Provides evidence of ability to make changes in nursing practice
- Ability to recognise a deteriorating patient and escalate the patient to the relevant professionals/ agencies/ services in a timely manner.
- Good knowledge and understanding of diabetes management
- Good knowledge and understanding of End of Life Care/ management
- Sickness absence management
- Rota management
- Knowledge of the different teams/ services within REACT
- Knowledge and understanding of the 2 hour urgent community response (UCR)
- Knowledge of community databases such as EPIC
- Able to request and translate blood results
- Ability to undertake audits
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Registered Nurse - REACT
The closing date is 18 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has risen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team (REACT) as a Senior Registered Nurse. The REACT team is a multi-disciplinary integrated community service within ESNEFT incorporating OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotics Therapy), OOHs (Out of Hours) and Virtual Ward pathways patients.
Our team delivers excellent patient focused care to patients in the East Suffolk community. Could you be a valued key member of our team? We will offer an individually tailored induction, training and support for the successful candidate.
The role involves travelling throughout East Suffolk delivering acute care in patient's home as a part of REACT nursing team, both during core hours and out of hours. The post holder will be working in an internal rotation. The successful candidate will be expected to work a mixture of shifts that include the following: 11-11 triage shifts, early (0800-1600), late (1500-2300), twilight (1800-2300) and night shifts (2230-0830) including weekends and bank holidays as the service requires. During out of hours between 18:00-8:00 the Nurse will be accompanied with a Health Care Assistant. Pool cars are accessible for staff to use and it
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