Specialist Nurse - REACT

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, motivated and proactive Nurse Specialist to join our Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team (REACT). REACT is an innovative multidisciplinary community service within ESNEFT, bringing together Urgent Community Response (UCR), Hospital at Home, OPAT and Out of Hours pathways to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care closer to home. The service works closely with the East of England Ambulance Service, Hospital at Home, Integrated Neighbourhood Teams and acute services to support admission avoidance and deliver rapid intervention for patients experiencing acute deterioration in the community. As a Nurse Specialist, you will play a key role in reducing hospital admissions, supporting early discharge, and improving health outcomes through coordinated, holistic care. This role offers the opportunity to influence the development of innovative community pathways, strengthen system-wide relationships and contribute to the ongoing transformation of urgent community care services across East Suffolk. This is an exciting time to join the team as we navigate a period of NHS-led transformation. You will have the opportunity to work within an evolving service, gaining valuable experience and contributing to the delivery of new models of care as healthcare services continue to develop.

Provide skilled nursing clinical expertise with specialised knowledge in admission avoidance, frailty and caring for the older person in the community. To provide professional leadership involving recruitment, supervision, appraisal and support and development of staff Provide excellent shift leadership skills ensuring patient flow and optimising staffing capacity to reach the patient demand. To promote high standards of professional practice and the leadership of delivery of quality care. Plan and provide highly specialised training/education programmes for nurses, therapists, and other disciplines in relation to admission avoidance. Maintain a high level of awareness of relevant research trends and national recommendations regarding admission avoidance and older persons care/frailty and admission avoidance. In partnership with the REACT service lead, Finance Advisor and Human Resource Manager ensure budget setting and department finance issues are maximised to effect positive performance targets. To be responsible and accountable for ensuring the REACT team complies with clinical governance and quality.

For further information about this role please contact:

Rebecca Parles - React Clinical Lead - Rebecca.Parles@esneft.nhs.uk

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.

• Registered Nurse
• Proven post registration experience

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.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Constantine House

Ipswich

Suffolk

United Kingdom

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

11 November 2026

Agenda for change

Band 7

Permanent

Full-time

Constantine House

Ipswich

Suffolk

United Kingdom