East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking to recruit highly motivated nurses who are passionate about the care of patients to join our well-established critical care team in delivering a 24/7 service at Colchester Hospital.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a friendly team who are motivated in promoting the delivery of a patient-centred, clinically effective and dynamic service to our patients.
Our critical care units form part of the East of England Critical Care Delivery Network and utilises a paperless clinical information system.
Do you possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work confidently and collaboratively across professional boundaries? Are you keen and motivated to learn? If so, then your skills are invaluable to us and we would like to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
In this post, you will deliver excellent and individualised clinical care to our patients and their families, and you will be fully supported to achieve this through our comprehensive educational strategy.
You will work within a Clinical Specialist team and contribute to activities and projects with the goal of professional and practice development. You must have an understanding of the current health agenda and national guidance which informs critical care practice.
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 responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse Level 1 or 2 or awaiting results.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Willingness to work towards achievement of critical care qualification.
* Mentorship module or willing to work towards achievement.
* Willingness to undertake further education.
Experience
* Worked within the healthcare setting.
* Experience in critical care environment.
Knowledge
* Knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice.
* Understanding and ability to apply clinical governance principles to practice.
* Knowledge of developments in specialty and current issues driving nursing in general.
* Nursing Care of Acutely unwell patients.
Skills
* Ability to work effectively in a team and lead as required.
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
* Ability to delegate.
* Ability to manage own workload.
* Ability to communicate at appropriate level both written and verbal.
* Motivated and enthusiastic.
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.
Salary: £29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum pro rata.
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