Registered Nurse - Bures Ward

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

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 with previous general acute experience.

Previous candidates need not apply

INTERVIEW DATE: Thursday 16th January 2025

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 offer 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.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for 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.

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Date posted

27 December 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

432-HR1921-24

Job locations

Colchester General Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

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 Trusts Competency Framework for Registered Nurses, the Ward/Department Philosophy and the NMC Code of Conduct/ Professional Standards for the Protection of Patients.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

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 Trusts Competency Framework for Registered Nurses, the Ward/Department Philosophy and the NMC Code of Conduct/ Professional Standards for the Protection of Patients.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

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

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

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.