Vascular Access Practitioner

3 months ago


Ipswich, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the vascular access service at ESNEFT on the Ipswich site.

You will be responsible for leading the service and the role will involve a combination of managerial and clinical time. Clinical time will be used to triage referrals for vascular access devices and ensure safe placement of the device.

In collaboration with the consultant clinical lead for the vascular access service, the post holder will deliver an effective, responsive, high quality vascular access service across the site.

To act as a clinical expert in relation to vascular access, providing clinical leadership to nursing staff and expert professional advice to other professionals, multi-disciplinary groups, patients, relatives and carers

The post holder will promote evidence
- based practice in vascular access through the integration of expert clinical practice, education and the development and implementation of guidelines and policies.

To place a variety of vascular access devices.

One of the largest Trusts in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if 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. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.



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