Staff Nurse - Hand Trauma Unit
The closing date is 23 July 2025
Job summary
We are looking for a dedicated professional to join our Hand Trauma Nursing Team within St Andrew's Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery.
This band five role will include working in our regional Hand Trauma Unit as well as assisting in our procedure room.
As a regional trauma centre we take referrals from all over the south eastern region for hand trauma injuries, and triage them appropriately into our specialist services. We see same day emergencies as well as routinely booked patients. We operate in main theatres as well as our own procedure room within the trauma unit seven days a week. Our working environment is fast paced and ever changing.
As well as a passion for delivering excellent; specialist care, the ideal candidate will possess a keen enthusiasm for developing their own clinical skills, in the specialty of plastic surgery and hand trauma. This will include undertaking theatre scrub competencies.
So, if this sounds like the right role for you, please apply today.
Main duties of the job
In your role, your duties will cover:
- Providing excellent and safe care to a variety of patients.
- Promoting Trust values and behaviours.
- Taking referrals from internal and external clinical areas.
- Delivering advanced wound care.
- Delivering Nursing care within our Trauma Unit.
- Delivering Nursing care within our procedure room acting as either a scrub or circulating Nurse.
- Providing safe pre, peri and post operative care to plastic surgery patients.
- Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Contributing to service improvement strategies and data collection.
- Contributing to wider research projects within the Plastic Surgery Hand Trauma department.
About us
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Details
Date posted
15 July 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£31,049 a year Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)
Contract
Secondment
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
390-B&P-BR-3246-A
Job locations
Broomfield
Court Road
Chelmsford
CM1 7ET
Employer details
Employer name
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Broomfield
Court Road
Chelmsford
CM1 7ET
Employer's website
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