‘We work together, supporting each other to provide patients with the best possible care’

Part Time and Full Time hours available

Join us and help us deliver our vision across Hastings, Eastbourne and the surrounding area.

At East Sussex Healthcare Trust we have Emergency Departments in both Hastings - which is our trauma receiving site - and in Eastbourne which has one of the leading stroke services in the country. If you wanted experience on both sites we could incorporate this into a tailored package to meet your learning needs and ensure you experience both services. We have regular cross site clinical supervision to allow both sites to meet; this allows us to learn from each other and to also support each other in our learning and progression.

Here on the South East coast we enjoy a great place to live with full advantages of both beach and countryside surrounding us, but also close links to London and Brighton.

Both Emergency Departments has the reputation of having close caring teams who pride themselves in looking after each other. Every day we value great team work and respect, making sure our patients come first, delivering safe and high quality care, being responsible and accountable and ensuring everyone's contribution counts.

Our departments currently see an increasing 120, 000 patients per year. This is both an extremely exciting opportunity and time for new staff to join us on our journey towards outstanding. We have recently had newly refurbished waiting rooms with primary care and minors area’s built.

We are starting an Advanced Nurse Practitioner service and we are keen to grow our own workforce and watch our staff progress into autonomous roles such as Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Emergency Nurse Practitioners.

Our amazing Emergency Nurse Practitioners Service which sees approx. 25% of all our attendances, We have a range of different skilled adult nurses and dedicated paediatric nurses who are all enthusiastic to share their vast experience and knowledge with you.

The Head of Nursing and Deputy Heads of nursing also work clinically to ensure high quality care is delivered to our patients and that staff are continually supported in all areas. We have also developed welfare teams so there is always somebody to listen and support you.

We are dedicated to training and education and have strong links to Greenwich, Brighton and Canterbury Universities for both degree and masters courses. We offer a range of courses to suit our staff needs – Advanced physical and paediatric assessment, mentorship, and the full range of resuscitation council courses ATLS, EPLS, PILS, ILS, ALS.

During your induction you will be invited to a skills week which is an in house course run by the ED Matrons where you will learn the essentials to work within our ED’s this comprises of intraosseous access, care of the sick child, ILS, PILS. These skills weeks will be repeated during the year with content that the staff request to be taught. We have highly experienced Practice Development Nurses, one of which won Mentor of the Year Award, and we were nominated Team of the Year by the students we supported during 2017. They will work closely with you in all areas of the ED – triage, majors, minors, resuscitation,

We are welcoming highly motivated, caring, enthusiastic and innovative individuals to come and join our exciting and dynamic nursing teams. We welcome informal visits so please contact one of us to arrange a telephone conference, or visit, to discuss the exciting opportunities we have to offer. We would be able to offer part time hours however all vacancies are internal rotation.