Appliance Nurse

Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board
Appliance Nurse

Closing date: 16 August 2026

Job summary
2 x vacancies available. Both full time but part-time job share would also be considered.

Join our Medicines Optimisation Team and play a key role in improving patient care across Norfolk and Suffolk. As an Appliance Nurse, you will support the safe, effective, and cost-efficient use of appliances, working collaboratively with health and care professionals across the system to optimise patient outcomes and experience.

You will provide specialist clinical advice, contribute to the development of evidence-based guidance and care pathways, and support the implementation of appliance-related strategies that improve quality, reduce avoidable harm and minimise waste. The role involves working closely with multidisciplinary teams, analysing data to inform decision-making, supporting service improvement projects, and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders to deliver integrated, patient-centred care.

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated registered nurse with strong communication, analytical and organisational skills who is passionate about service improvement, medicines optimisation and delivering high-quality, evidence-based care. If you enjoy collaborative working, influencing positive change and making a real difference to patient outcomes across the health and care system, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job
Support the implementation of appliance related strategies across the system to:

• Improve health outcomes
• Reduce avoidable harm
• Avoid waste
• Improve cost effective use of appliances.

Promote the safe, evidence-based and cost-effective use of appliances by:

• Providing up to date, unbiased information about treatments and care pathways
• Developing local guidelines and care pathways to optimise the use of appliances
• Supporting other health and care providers to deliver medicines optimisation in a way that is high quality, efficient, safe, well led, timely and responsive, effective and equitable.

Matrix working will be required with colleagues across the Medicines Optimisation Team.

About us
We manage an annual budget of £4.9billion to commission safe, highquality and accessible health services for 1.7million people living in Norfolk and Suffolk.

We work with hospitals, GP practices, dentists, pharmacies, community, mental health and ambulance services, alongside local councils and voluntary organisations, to improve care. We involve local communities in shaping decisions and use their insights to improve services. As a statutory NHS organisation, we are accountable to NHS England and the UK Government.

Our role is to ensure services meet current and future needs by setting local NHS strategy, allocating funding, maintaining quality and safety standards, improving access, reducing health inequalities and enabling joinedup care.

Norfolk and Suffolk include rural, coastal and deprived communities, with an olderthanaverage population. Around half of residents live in rural or coastal areas, where access can be harder, and about 219,000 people live in the most deprived areas, where early deaths are significantly higher. These factors shape our planning and focus on reducing inequalities.

Our vision is for people to live longer, healthier lives with access to safe, joinedup, patientcentred care. We prioritise improving healthy life expectancy, reducing inequalities and ensuring consistent access to highquality services.

We work across five local Places and partner with NHS providers, councils, the VCFSE sector and communities to deliver locally responsive care.

Details
Date posted: 03 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: D0003-ICB019
Job locations: Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board, County Hall, Martineau Lane, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 2DH, United Kingdom; Norfolk and Suffolk ICB, Endeavour House, Russell Road, Ipswich, IP1 2BX, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

Person Specification
Other
Essential

• An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
• Used to working in a busy environment.
• Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
• Commitment to continuing professional development.
• Professional calm and efficient manner.
• Effective organiser.
• Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
• May be required to travel to ICB Offices and other venues within the ICB area as required.

Experience
Essential

• Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
• Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of health services.
• Experience in communications and stakeholder management.
• Intermediate knowledge of IT systems and software programmes such as Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint.

Desirable

• Comprehensive knowledge of project management and/or health information systems development.
• Workforce development knowledge and experience.
• Previous experience in similar role in public sector.
• A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.

Autonomy
Essential

• Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload without supervision working to tight and often changing timescales.

Analytical
Essential

• Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues.
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Strategic thinking ability to anticipate.
• Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where they may be a number of courses of action.

Skills
Essential

• Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
• Evidence of success in efficient and effective project and programme management.
• Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence.
• Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
• Skills for project management.
• Previous experience in project management and planning.
• Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support.
• Skills for managing projects ensuring they meet financial targets.
• Skills for manipulating information. Intermediate keyboard skills.

Qualifications
Essential

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Member of relevant professional body.

Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Laura Waterson
Email: nwicb.medopsnurses@nhs.net