Job summary
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.
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.
Depending on your level of experience you will develop your competence and confidence through a programme of supervised practice, critical care specific competencies and a series of development days specifically for band 5 staff.
You will work within a Clinical Specialist team and contribute to activities and projects with the goal of professional and practice must have an understanding of the current health agenda and national guidance which informs critical care practice.
In this role you will be expected to undertake internal rotation of shifts and will be predominantly based at the Ipswich site with a requirement to work at the Colchester Critical Care unit if required.
About us
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.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. NMC Registered Nurse Adult Branch
2. Willing to work towards achievement of Critical Care qualification
3. Basic Life Support course
Desirable
4. Mentorship/Practice Assessor qualification or willing to work towards
5. Critical Care specialist qualification
6. ILS
7. PILS
8. Transfer Training
Experience
Essential
9. Current experience of working in an acute hospital setting
10. Evidence of current/continuing professional development
Desirable
11. Current or previous critical care experience
12. Insight into critical care environment