Are you a highly skilled, adaptive and enthusiastic Registered Nurse with proven post registration experience, looking for an opportunity to develop your skills, experience, and clinical knowledge across multiple specialities?
Do you want the advantages of a permanent NHS position with the flexibility to choose your own shifts? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join soon to be launched Bures Ward, a team of experienced professionals who provide vital support across Colchester hospital. This dynamic role covers all adult clinical specialities, responding to ward escalation and operational demands to ensure wards and departments receive the support they need when they need it.
This unique position offers you the chance to develop your knowledge, broaden your expertise and gain accelerated experience across multiple specialities, empowering you to thrive in any situation and provide you with a stepping stone to future promotion. Our aim is to help you develop your skills to reach your full potential and career aspirations.
This role is only suitable for nurses already registered with the NMC.
Main duties of the job
This role is perfect for someone who is eager to grow, embrace challenges and make a significant impact across the hospital.
We are committed to supporting you on this journey, providing the training and development needed to help you become the very best in this role.
In addition, we offer flexible working arrangements and self-rostering, we want you to thrive in your new role while maintaining a healthy work life balance. Choose your own shifts from available lates, nights, twilights and middle shifts.
You'll receive up to 2 weeks of specialist training prior to the team going live, including supernumerary time in areas you may not have worked in before to build your confidence, knowledge and skills.
Areas of specialist training including: respiratory care, emergency care, cardiac care, oncology, care of the elderly, enhanced therapeutic care/mental health.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
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 offers 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.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
* To meet the needs of the Trust with regard to Induction, mandatory and statutory training.
* To work within the framework for Clinical Governance to provide effective, high quality individualised nursing care to patients and relatives/carers and to contribute to the continuing development of nursing practice.
* To ensure high standards of patient care at all times, in line with Trust policies and guidelines.
* To work as an effective member of the nursing and wider multi-professional healthcare team.
* To work within the Trust's Competency Framework for Registered Nurses, the Ward/Department Philosophy and the NMC Code of Conduct/ Professional Standards for the Protection of Patients.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* Proven post qualifying experience in an acute setting.
Desirable
* Undertaken preceptorship.
* Participation in research/audit.
Qualifications
Essential
* NMC Registered Nurse.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable
* Coaching qualification.
* Willingness to undertake further education.
Knowledge
Essential
* Knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice.
* Understanding and ability to apply clinical governance principles to practice.
* Knowledge of developments in speciality and current issues driving nursing in general.
Desirable
* Knowledge of developments in speciality and current issues driving nursing in general.
* Nursing Care of Acutely unwell patients.
Employer details
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Colchester General Hospital
Colchester
CO4 5JL
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