Employer: East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Colchester Hospital
Town: Colchester
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/04/2025 23:59
Registered Nurse - Care of the Elderly Peldon
NHS AfC: Band 5
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.
Talk to us about our range of flexible working opportunities, apprenticeships and staff benefits.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Job overview
Exciting opportunities available for Registered Nurses to work on Peldon Ward, one of our Care of the Elderly Wards at Colchester General Hospital.
Full Time & Part Time hours would be considered.
Are you an enthusiastic, motivated person, with a flexible approach? Do you relish a challenge? Then join our team in delivering excellent standards of care.
You will have a passion for care of the elderly and be willing to work within a multi-disciplinary team maintaining a high standard of care.
Main duties of the job
1. 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.
2. 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.
Working for our organisation
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 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Experience
* Experience of delivering evidence based practice.
* Evidence of continuing practice.
Qualifications
* Evidence of ongoing professional development.
* Relevant teaching and mentoring qualification.
Skills
* Ability to work as an effective team member.
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
* Ability to communicate at appropriate level both written and verbally.
* Ability to manage workload.
* Motivated and enthusiastic.
Please make sure that you read the Job Description and Person Specification attached and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.
The Trust is committed to its staff and their development and to equal opportunities and diversity. Applications are welcomed from all sections of the community.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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